締切日/開催日 2025年11月04日(火)
GraSPP Policy Challenge (GPC) offers a unique opportunity to students from diverse backgrounds to collaborate and seek to improve their teambuilding and policy-making skills. Participants are tasked with responding to pressing real-world policy challenges as a group, and with designing policies and proposals in response to those challenges.
All Master students at GraSPP and/or STIG are strongly encouraged to apply. Finalist groups will be ultimately invited to present at the GPPN 2026 Annual Conference hosted by Lee Kuan Yew School, National University of Singapore in March 2026.
Theme:
“Reimagining Policy in a Fragmented World“
Details to be Announced shortly..
The Challenge:
The GPPN invites students to work on an important policy challenge in any field in line with the chosen theme. Proposals can incorporate public, private or hybrid approaches.
We are looking for student presentations on public policy proposals that demonstrate:
- Argumentation : A precise identification and analysis of the targeted population or territory; this precise analysis of the problem will need to be clear prior to discussion of any possible solutions
- Figures : A strong use of analytics and empirics and how these can be applied to inform a solution to the public policy problem identified
- Implementation : An astute understanding of how policy solutions can be implemented given the interests of the policy actors in the chosen context
- Benchmarking : A clear awareness of when similar solutions have been tried in the past, why they were successful or amended in order to be successful in the future.
To see examples of past proposals, you can watch the presentations on the GPPN website from the past conference:
https://www.gppnetwork.org/2025-conference-new-york
To apply:
Students should form teams and work together to develop their proposals. Each member can participate in one team only. The group must consist of 2 to 4 master’s students who are currently enrolled in GraSPP and/or STIG and apply via here by Tuesday, 4 November. You may also apply individually and leave GraSPP to find your teammates. The groups and advisors will be announced by 6 November.
Students graduating in March 2026 are not eligible to participate in the conference, as it will take place after the graduation date.
Schedule (TBC):
29 October: Info Session @ Lecture Hall B
4 November: Application deadline
6 November: Briefing Session (mandatory for all participants) @ SMBC Academia Hall
24 November: Submission of Research Proposals (Approx. 2,000 words)
5-11 December: A2 Course Registration
18 or 19 December (TBC): Presentation Screening – Selection of the GPPN 2026 Conference teams
26 January 2026: Deadline for Final PPT slides and a policy proposal (Approx. 5,000 words)
Late February (TBC): Presentation Rehearsal (*GPPN 2026 Conference participants only)
27-28 March 20226: GPPN 2026 Conference in Singapore
Credits:
This project is conducted as Case Study course “GraSPP Policy Challenge – Global Innovative Public Policy Solutions” (5140735) in A2. Those who complete all the requirements will be able to earn 2 credits. (Grades: Pass/Fail)
Course registration is required separately to earn credits, which will be done by GraSPP Office, not via UTAS. Students willing to participate in the course must pre-register via the above online registration form.
This course can be taken repeatedly and counted as up to 4 credits.
Inquiry:
Programme Coordinator – Aoi Ohno < exchange.j[at]gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp > (replace [at] with @)