Why should you attend?
The Summer 2024 Complexity Global School will provide you with an introduction to an array of rigorous tools for analyzing complex phenomena in the social, economic, and political spheres. If you are a graduate student, you will leave this program with a larger tool kit for conducting your research. If you are a practitioner, you will leave this program with new tools for decision-making in the social, economic, and political spheres. All participants will leave with a broader social network of deep thinkers from across the globe.
We hope your attendance will also help the world! The world needs new ideas and paradigms. In collaboration with the instructors and your fellow cohort, Complexity Global will provide a unique opportunity to explore new ideas, methods, applications, and paradigms. Recent advances in communication technologies allow for easy connection across the globe. However, there are not enough small, rigorous, high-trust, diverse, and truly global groups of thinkers who are rigorously interrogating our world’s emerging challenges and opportunities. We intend for Complexity Global to help fill that gap.
Who should apply?
We are working to assemble a diverse student body, so there is no “ideal applicant.” If you are a graduate student interested in learning new tools for understanding social, economic, or political issues, please apply. If you are a practitioner working to create change in your world, either in the non-profit, government, or for-profit sector, please apply. If you are thinking of ways small interventions can have outsized impact in addressing an important problem, please apply!
The July 2024 Complexity Global School is restricted to applicants currently living in Latin America, North America, or Europe. The school is also geared towards early-career academics and change-makers, so applicants should be: (i) current graduate students; (ii) early-career researchers; or (iii) practitioners from civil society or private industry who want to use new theories and ideas to make change.
The Complexity Global program does not discriminate on the basis of age, class, ethnicity, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.
What does it cost to attend?
NOTHING! The Summer 2024 Complexity Global School is 100% free for all admitted students. (This is thanks to generous support from The Omidyar Network and The Ford Foundation.) In addition to free tuition, all students will receive free room and board during the two-week program as well as a modest stipend to offset incidental expenses during the school. Furthermore, students who need to travel from outside the immediate region of the schools will receive generous travel stipends to cover the cost of their travel to and from the school.
Where is the Summer 2024 Complexity Global School being held?
All students, regardless of their location of origin, will attend la Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia location. Students will be provided with housing and meals during the school. A generous travel stipend will enable students to attend from anywhere in Latin America, North America, or Europe.
Students based in other parts of the world are not eligible to attend the Summer 2024 Complexity Global School. If you would like to be notified when Complexity Global becomes available in other parts of the world, please sign up.
When is the school?
The in-person portion of the school runs from Sunday, July 21st to Saturday August 3rd, 2024. The in-person portion of the school is intense, and students will not have time for outside work during the school. The final group project is due by mid-November, 2024. We expect that students will virtually collaborate with their project group between the end of the in-person session (August 3rd, 2024) and their group’s submission of the final project (mid-November).
Will I receive a Certificate of Completion for attending the Summer 2024 Complexity Global School?
Yes. Students who complete the in-person session and participate in a group that submits a quality group project on or before mid-November, will receive a certificate of completion. In addition, a select group of students may be invited to attend a follow-up school session in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the following year (more details to come).
The group project seems like an important part of the curriculum. How will project groups be assigned?
Students are free to select their project groups and topics.
Who are the faculty?
See a complete list of the 2024 Comlplexity Global School faculty.
When are applications due?
Applications are due on Monday, April 22nd at 23:59 UTC.
How do I apply?
Apply online by April 22nd, 2024.
Do I have to create a Survey Monkey account to apply?
Yes, however, detailed instructions are included in the application process.