Deadline:
May 06, 2026
Program Starts: May 06, 2026
Program Ends: May 07, 2026
Location(s)
Switzerland
Dufourstrasse 83, P.O. Box 1045, 9001 St. Gallen
Overview
The St. Gallen Symposium is the world’s most relevant student-driven organisation and platform for cross-generational dialogue and collaboration.
Details
- We connect leaders of today and tomorrow from business, politics, science and civil society to foster mutual understanding and joint action on our most pressing challenges and chances.
- Our global community comprises more than 400 businesses and institutions and over 300 universities.
- We believe in positive change for a better world by bringing generations together along with our vision: Lead with the Next Generation in Mind.
Theme and Programme
The St. Gallen Symposium promotes cross-generational dialogue on the most pressing issues of our time. Every year, we focus our annual main symposium, our year-round dialogue initiatives and our publications on a core theme.
This serves to inspire our cross-generational community of leaders of today and tomorrow to reflect and act upon key questions in five thematic areas, related to business, governance, sustainability, technology, and the social and generational contract.
Disrupted Age: Theme of the 55th St. Gallen Symposium
We live in a time of major disruptions — yet three stand out for their pace, transformative impact, and global reach. In recent years, the world has changed more profoundly than many expected — leaving businesses, institutions and individuals struggling to keep up, often unclear on how to respond. These disruptions offer both opportunities and challenges – not only in their nature, but also in how societies experience and address them.
- Technology: AI and automation are transforming business, politics, and daily life at record speed—raising ethical dilemmas while driving breakthroughs in digital infrastructure, clean energy, and productivity.
- Geopolitics: Shifting alliances, economic uncertainty, and rising defense budgets are reshaping the global order as traditional structures weaken and new actors emerge.
- Demography: Rapid ageing in the Global North and youth surges in the Global South are straining welfare systems, shifting migration patterns and productivity.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Dates
Deadline: May 06, 2026
Program starts:
May 06, 2026
Program ends:
May 07, 2026
Program Starts: May 06, 2026
Program Ends: May 07, 2026
Cost/funding for participants
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
