Apply for WTO Secretariat, GTP & CropLife International Hackathon 2025!

The WTO Secretariat, GTP & CropLife International Student Hackathon 2025: International Trade and Food Security. Organised by the World Trade Organization’s Agriculture and Commodities Division alongside the Geneva Trade Platform, and supported by CropLife International, this occasion will coincide with the September 2025 WTO Public Forum.

Theme(s)

Key Dates: Fall 2025

• Application Opens: Early May 2025
• Applications Deadline: June 18, 2025
• Start Date (Orientation): Aug. 26, 2025
• Hackathon Topic Announced – 72-hour Hackathon Begins on 29 Aug (09:00 CEST) 
• Shortlisted Teams Announced: 8 Sept. 2019
• Final Presentations & Winner Announcement: (Sept 15 to 19) Final Presentations & Winner Announcement

Eligibility Criteria

• Registration is open till 1 July 2025, 15:59 CEST.
• The Hackathon is open to groups of between two (2) and 4 (4) larger training college students;
• All staff members should be presently enrolled as Master’s or PhD college students at a better training establishment;
• The competitors is open to larger training college students of any age and inside any self-discipline;
• All members of a successful staff might want to show their enrollment previous to any prizes being awarded;
• The Hackathon will likely be solely digital and there aren’t any geographic or nationwide limitations on participation.
• The Hackathon will happen from twenty ninth August 9:00 CEST until 1st September 9:00 CEST.

Team members will nonetheless should be out there to take part just about for 2 hours throughout the week of 15-19 September 2025 that coincides with the WTO Public Forum, the place the 3 groups shortlisted will likely be requested to current their concepts and reply questions forward of the jury’s last determination.

The precise time & date will likely be communicated nearer to the date.

Submissions and Evaluation Criteria

Submissions will encompass three parts:

• Section 1: a story part explaining the aspect of the
  downside the submission is hoping to deal with, and the way the
  answer is meant to deal with it (1,000 phrases max.);
• Section 2: a substantive part, outlining how the proposed
  answer would seem in a Ministerial Declaration, General
  Council Decision, treaty change and so on. (500 phrases max.);
• Section 3: a video explaining the proposal and the way it could work
  (3 minutes max.)

Submissions will likely be anonymised and evaluated by a panel of eminent agriculture and commerce coverage consultants on the creativity of proposed options, the feasibility of the proposed path ahead
and readability of presentation. The jury will particularly be evaluating:

• The originality and creativity of the proposed application
• The extent to which the proposed application resolves a real downside;
• The feasibility of the proposals and the extent extent to which their design demonstrates an consciousness of the constraints of present applied sciences and strategies;
• The model, construction and readability of the written submissions, video displays and for the highest three groups, their solutions to the jury questions throughout the related plenary session;

The preliminary analysis selects the highest three submissions. These will likely be introduced just about to the jury by the groups throughout a session within the week of the 15–19 September 2025 WTO Public Forum, offering the
jury the chance to ask questions and check the concepts on supply. Following all three displays, the jury will then deliberate forward of an announcement of the first, 2nd and third place finishers on the conclusion of the panel which is able to instantly comply with the displays. (Please read the Hackathon WTOPF25 Guidelines)

How To Apply

When the Hackathon query is introduced through the Beyond Trade Network at 09:00 CET on the twenty ninth of August, staff captains will obtain a novel hyperlink to a Google Form by which they’ll
submit on behalf of their staff.

The type will embrace fields for all sections, in addition to a spot to incorporate the URL to the staff’s video submission which might be uploaded to Youtube, Vimeo, Google Drive or some other platform the place it may be considered and shared. Staff will likely be out there through BTN to help with any technical points which will come up in importing submissions or movies.

Application Materials

Eligible Regions

• Open to all! The Hackathon will likely be solely digital and there are no geographic or nationwide limitations on participation.

Submission Process

When the Hackathon query is introduced through the Beyond Trade Network at 09:00 CET on the 29nd of August, staff captains will obtain a novel hyperlink to a Google Form by which they’ll
submit on behalf of their staff. The type will embrace fields for all sections, in addition to a spot to incorporate the URL to the staff’s video submission which might be uploaded to Youtube, Vimeo, Google Drive or some other platform the place it may be considered and shared. Staff will likely be out there through BTN to help with any technical points which will come up in importing submissions or movies.

Applications Deadline

Contact

During the Hackathon, all communication with collaborating groups will happen through a devoted group of the Beyond Trade Network (BTN) for Hackathon individuals. This BTN group is the place:

• The Hackathon ‘Question’ will likely be introduced at 09:00 CEST on Friday, 29 August 2025.
• Teams will obtain a hyperlink to the shape by which to make their submissions;
• Teams will obtain directions on the right way to add or share their video submissions, and help with doing so;
• Teams can ask questions both publicly or privately of the occasion organizers;
• Teams can talk with each other through an non-obligatory
• Hackathon-wide chat and message board.

If you may have obtained an e-mail confirming your staff’s registration however haven’t been invited to the non-public BTN group, message Leo Chauvin on the community instantly together with your staff identify.

If for any purpose you’re unable to entry the Beyond Trade Network, the organizers might be reached by e-mail at: occasions@genevatradeplatform.org

Outside Assistance

Students can search recommendation and enter on their submissions from exterior their staff, however all concepts must be unique to the staff members and all writing and videography must be accomplished by the staff.

 

 

View the OFY Internships web page for extra alternatives!

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