The goal of this quest is to make the St. Gallen Symposium essays accessible for all attendees. This way the essays can have a wider impact and promote a much needed intergenearational exchange. A solution should be developed, which has following features:
The resources, which will be provided are 500 - 1000 essays from the last 5 – 10 years. All are in PDF format and in English.
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The St. Gallen Symposium, formerly known as the International Management Symposium and the ISC-Symposium, is an annual conference taking place in May at the in University of St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is one of the world's leading initiatives for intergenerational debates on economic,political, and social developments between decision makers of today and tomorrow.The symposium's goal is to facilitate solutions by addressing the big challenges and chances of our time.The St. Gallen Symposium was founded in 1969 as a response to the international student unrests of 1968 and has since then been organised by the International Students’ Committee (ISC), a student initiative at the University of St. Gallen. Currently, this platform for dialogue welcomes more than 1.000 participants with over 70 nationalities every year. Personalities such as Kofi Annan, Josef Ackermann, Mohammad Khatami, Laurence D.Fink, Dominic Barton, Sigmar Gabriel and Christine Lagarde have attended the symposium in recent years.
The Global Essay Competition (former St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award) is an essay competition for students on postgraduate level. The authors of the 100 best submissions get the chance travel to St. Gallen for one week and participate in the St. Gallen Symposium. Since the essay's topic is always related to the symposium's main topic of discussion, the three best authors have the possibility to present their essay in front of the global audience during the Conference. The evaluation process is completely anonymous and carried out by a preliminary jury and a main jury. The preliminary jury consists of PhD students of the University of St. Gallen as well as the ETH Zurich whereas the main jury comprises professors, corporate executives, entrepreneurs and politicians. The Global Essay Competition was first launched in 1989 to select the student participants for the symposium and has been modified several times in the past.
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