Christoph Matthias Paret, Winner of the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award 2008
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.
To enable invited students from all over the world to
participate, the ISC assumes most of their travel and accommodation costs, regardless of their economic
situation.
