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GENEVA GRADUATE INSTITUTE GLOBAL CHALLENGE

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Application Deadline: 30 April 2025 at 23:59 CET.

LOCATION: Switzerland

Eager to stimulate reflection and innovation on development issues from diverse disciplinary and contextual perspectives and with the generous support of Ambassador Jenö Staehelin, the Graduate Institute launched the Advancing Development Goals Contest, an international competition for Master students.

The idea is to gather contributions that are both theoretically grounded and offer pragmatic solutions to a relevant international development problem stemming from an interdisciplinary collaboration between three to five enrolled master students from anywhere in the world.

ELIGIBILITY:

Five prizes will be distributed; one in each of the following categories (based on the UN Statistics list):

Universities located in Africa

Universities located in Asia

Universities located in Europe

Universities located in North America and Oceania

Universities located in Latin America

The confirmation documents (enrolment certificates or student cards) should contain your name, your graduate programme and a recent issuance date.

In case you do not have these documents at the time of your registration, please send them via email to geneva.challenge@graduateinstitute.ch.

Following the registration, you have eleven weeks to prepare you proposal, which is due by the submission deadline.

Please make sure that you submit a proof of enrolment as a Master’s student for each team member (the document should contain your name, your graduate programme, and a recent issuance date) when you submit the form. However, you can also send the proof to geneva.challenge@graduateinstitute.ch before the deadline on 30 April 2025 at 23:59 CET.

Following the registration, you have eleven weeks to prepare your proposal, which is to be submitted as a PDF through a form, which will be made available upon registration. You will find more information on the format of the submission in the rules and regulations of the contest on the website.

Should you have any questions about the contest or registering, do not hesitate to contact us via

BENEFIT:

The ADG contest distributes 25,000 CHF in monetary prizes. The winning project will be awarded CHF 10,000; the two teams in second place will receive CHF 5,000 each and the two teams in third place, CHF 2,500 each.

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CRI IRVINGTON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP TO PROMOTE RACIAL DIVERSITY

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Application Deadline: September 1, 2025 (11:59 p.m. Eastern Time )

LOCATION: USA

The CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship to Promote Racial Diversity supports qualified young scientists from underrepresented minorities at leading universities and research centers around the world who wish to receive training in fundamental immunology and cancer immunology. 

ELIGIBILITY:

The CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship to Promote Racial Diversity is open to candidates who identify as Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islander. CRI also recognizes that underrepresentation can vary from setting to setting; individuals from socioeconomically disadvantaged populations and from other racial or ethnic groups that can be demonstrated convincingly to be underrepresented by the grantee institution are encouraged to apply. Both U.S. and non-U.S. citizens are eligible.

To be eligible, an applicant must be working at a nonprofit institution in the United States or abroad. 

Applicants must be working in areas directly related to immunology or cancer immunology. An eligible project must fall into the broad field of immunology with relevance to solving the cancer problem.

Applicants must have a doctoral degree by the date of award activation and must conduct their proposed research under a sponsor who holds a formal appointment as an assistant professor or higher rank at the host institution.

Applicants with 5 or more years of relevant postdoctoral experience at the time of award activation are not eligible, with the exception of M.D. applicants, who should not include years of residency in this calculation.

Only in exceptional circumstances will applicants who have already spent 3 or more years in a sponsor’s laboratory by the start date of fellowship be considered for a fellowship award.

The fellowship can be performed in the United States or abroad but must take place at a non-profit institution. There are no citizenship restrictions.

Only one fellow per sponsor may apply per application round, and faculty sponsors may not have more than three CRI-supported fellows at any time.

Resubmissions: Applicants are permitted to resubmit their fellowship application at a subsequent deadline provided that the new application is improved to reflect progress. Changes to the application should be addressed in the subsequent application.

BENEFIT:

Newly awarded fellowships provide a stipend of $74,000 for the first year, $76,000 for the second year, and $78,000 for the third year. An allowance of $5,000 per year is allotted to the host institution for use at the sponsor’s discretion to help pay for the fellow’s research supplies, travel to scientific meetings, health insurance, and/or childcare. CRI provides additional support for fellows to attend CRI’s annual International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference (CICON), and to participate in CRI’s soon-to-be-launched Bioinformatics Bootcamp.

Deductions for administrative overhead are not allowed from either the stipend or the institutional allowance. Payments are made monthly in U.S. currency to the host institution.

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