Global Essay Competition
Compete in the St. Gallen Symposium's Global Essay Competition and qualify for participation as a Leader of Tomorrow in the world’s premier opportunity for cross-generational debates:
Meet 300 of society’s brightest young minds.
Present and debate your ideas with 600 senior leaders.
Be inspired by some of the world’s most impressive speakers.
Gain a unique and new perspective on this year’s topic.
Become a member of a unique global community.
Participate in the symposium with us.
Win prize money of CHF 20,000 split amongst the three winners.
Topic Question
Striving for more or thriving with less – What pressing scarcity do you see, and how do you suggest to tackle it?
Scarcity generally refers to a situation where human needs exceed available resources. This year’s Global Essay Competition invites young leaders worldwide to focus on a specific contemporary or future challenge related to scarcity and propose an innovative way to address it.
Be creative in thinking about proposed solutions: do we need to strive for more and find ways to boost the availability of the resource in question? Or does it focus on ways to thrive with less and thus rethink our needs and demand?
Be free in choosing which scarce resource you focus on: examples include – but are NOT limited to – human labour, capital, natural resources, or intangibles like time, creativity, or care. Be bold and precise in describing a contemporary or future challenge of scarcity and the specific kind of resources you focus on, and offer a concrete and actionable idea of how we should confront it.
Registration
Deadline
1 February 2024, 11:59 p.m. last time zone (UTC-12)
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