Benjamin Block, Winner of the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award 2007
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 200 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: Undergraduate, graduate and
postgraduate students in all fields of study enrolled at regular universities throughout the world,
born in 1978 or after.
We asked to contribute your visions and entrepreneurial
ideas to the theme “Global Capitalism – Local Values”. 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 participants
chose between one of the following subtopics for the contribution.
| » | Global action – local responsibility? |
| » | Do financial markets still have boundaries? |
| » | The economic relevance of values: cause for political, philosophical or entrepreneurial thought on the foundations of global capitalism |
All
contributions have been evaluated according to specific criteria by a panel of professors, corporate
executives, entrepreneurs and politicians.
