Overview
As the world’s leading platform for dialogue on key issues in management, the entrepreneurial environment and the interfaces between business, politics and society, the St. Gallen Symposium provides an opportunity for open and constructive discussions on the fundamental challenges faced by businesses and societies across the world. The event brings together an international group of participants: 600 prominent decision-makers in business, academia, politics and society, over 200 outstanding students, specially selected to participate in the St. Gallen Symposium out of well over 1,000 applicants for the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award, and leading representatives of the world media.
The 40th St. Gallen Symposium, will take place from 6–7 May 2010 at the University of St. Gallen. The topic of the upcoming symposium is "Entrepreneurs – Agents of Change".
Competition
Every year, the competition for the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award offers university students throughout the world the unique opportunity to take part in the St. Gallen Symposium. Students enter into a challenging exchange of ideas with today’s global leaders about the pressing economic and societal questions of our time. Competitors are invited to submit their thoughts and visions on the theme of the St. Gallen Symposium.
The authors of the 100 best contributions will be invited to Switzerland to add their own perspective to the St. Gallen Symposium – in the company of 600 entrepreneurs, top managers, politicians and scientists from more than 60 nations. The most outstanding pieces of work will receive the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award, which is endowed with a EUR 20,000.– prize, and will be presented to the audience by their authors.
Applicants' Qualifications: Graduate and postgraduate students in all fields of study enrolled at regular universities throughout the world, born in 1980 or after.
We ask to contribute your visions and entrepreneurial ideas to the current topic Entrepreneurs – Agents of Change and to the subtopics of the competition. We expect a professional work such as an essay, a scenario, a project report or proposal, a multimedia presentation or an entrepreneurial concept. It should be constructive, provocative or instructive, inspiring thoughts and actions as well as introducing a new approach or unconventional ideas. Within the framework of the theme the participant may choose between one of the following subtopics for the contribution.
As the world’s leading platform for dialogue on key issues in management, the entrepreneurial environment and the interfaces between business, politics and society, the St. Gallen Symposium provides an opportunity for open and constructive discussions on the fundamental challenges faced by businesses and societies across the world. The event brings together an international group of participants: 600 prominent decision-makers in business, academia, politics and society, over 200 outstanding students, specially selected to participate in the St. Gallen Symposium out of well over 1,000 applicants for the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award, and leading representatives of the world media.
The 40th St. Gallen Symposium, will take place from 6–7 May 2010 at the University of St. Gallen. The topic of the upcoming symposium is "Entrepreneurs – Agents of Change".
Competition
Every year, the competition for the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award offers university students throughout the world the unique opportunity to take part in the St. Gallen Symposium. Students enter into a challenging exchange of ideas with today’s global leaders about the pressing economic and societal questions of our time. Competitors are invited to submit their thoughts and visions on the theme of the St. Gallen Symposium.
The authors of the 100 best contributions will be invited to Switzerland to add their own perspective to the St. Gallen Symposium – in the company of 600 entrepreneurs, top managers, politicians and scientists from more than 60 nations. The most outstanding pieces of work will receive the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award, which is endowed with a EUR 20,000.– prize, and will be presented to the audience by their authors.
Applicants' Qualifications: Graduate and postgraduate students in all fields of study enrolled at regular universities throughout the world, born in 1980 or after.
We ask to contribute your visions and entrepreneurial ideas to the current topic Entrepreneurs – Agents of Change and to the subtopics of the competition. We expect a professional work such as an essay, a scenario, a project report or proposal, a multimedia presentation or an entrepreneurial concept. It should be constructive, provocative or instructive, inspiring thoughts and actions as well as introducing a new approach or unconventional ideas. Within the framework of the theme the participant may choose between one of the following subtopics for the contribution.
» What makes an entrepreneur an ‘agent of change’?
» Changing of the guard: Who are the new entrepreneurs?
» Corporate entrepreneurship within large companies: a concept for the future or a mere pie in the sky?
» Entrepreneurship between environmental risks and opportunities: What does it take to succeed?
All contributions will be evaluated according to specific criteria by a panel of professors, corporate executives, entrepreneurs and politicians.
How to apply
Eligibility
Graduate and postgraduate students in all fields of study enrolled at regular universities throughout the world, born in 1980 or after.
Subtopics
» What makes an entrepreneur an ‘agent of change’?
» Changing of the guard: Who are the new entrepreneurs?
» Corporate entrepreneurship within large companies: a concept for the future or a mere pie in the sky?
» Entrepreneurship between environmental risks and opportunities: What does it take to succeed?
Format
Essay
» 5 to 7 pages, max. 2,100 words (not including bibliography). Exact word count must be stated at the beginning of the text. Name must not be stated on the title page or following pages.
» Accepted formats: doc, rtf, pdf
Multimedia presentation
» Max. 15 minutes duration; name must not be stated on the slides.
» Accepted formats: ppt, pps, pdf
Video
» Max. 15 minutes duration; please label video with own name but do not state name on recording
» Accepted formats: vhs, dvd, avi, mpeg, mov
All sources used in the contribution must be quoted. Breach of the rules or any form of cheating will result in automatic disqualification from the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award. The International Students’ Committee (ISC) St. Gallen as the organiser of the competition reserves the right to contact the university and take further legal measures. The work has to be written especially for the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award by only one person.
Abstract
» In addition to the contribution, the key statements should be summarised in an abstract. This should be submitted as a separate file together with the other documents.
» Accepted formats: doc, rtf, pdf
Language
» English, French or German
Submission
Closing Date
The complete application documents should be handed in online or by post to the International Students’ Committee (ISC) by 1 February 2010 (date of postmark).
Online Application
The online registration is not avalaible at this point in time.
Offline Application
Send your contribution in duplicate along with
» the application form, which will be posted within the next week,
» the abstract (separate sheet),
» a copy of your passport or other official form of ID,
» confirmation of matriculation from the university by February 2010,
» a diskette or CD containing your contribution (without syllabification) and the abstract (separate file) and
» a handwritten declaration confirming that the contribution is the participant's own work and contains his own thoughts and that all stated facts are accurate
to the following address:
St. Gallen Symposium
Dufourstrasse 83
P.O. Box 1045
CH - 9001 St. Gallen
Tel. +41 (0)71 227 20 20
Fax +41 (0)71 227 20 30
symposium@stgallen-symposium.org
www.stgallen-symposium.org
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