All Student Challenges news items
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Turning Monsters into Materials: Deep Sea Threads Wins the ReThink Textile Hackathon
- The ReThink Textile Hackathon has found its champion, and the winning idea is as unexpected as it is groundbreaking: creating sustainable textiles from hagfish slime. These slimy, nightmare-inducing creatures became the inspiration for Deep Sea Threads, a team whose eco-friendly innovation pushed the boundaries of imagination and sustainability, securing them the top spot in the competition. -
Fruitastic 5 Wins the Food Systems Innovation Challenge with a Vision to Combat Food Waste in Uganda
- The 2024 Food Systems Innovation Challenge concluded with Fruitastic 5 from Uganda winning the top prize of €5,500 for their creative approach to reducing food waste. The team developed a method to transform overripe jackfruits into nutritious snacks, extending the fruit’s shelf life while promoting healthy eating and boosting economic benefits for local farmers and vendors. -
Nature-based Future Challenge: the winning team designed context-specific solutions
- The jury commended Team Delta Harmonics for tackling the complex problems of the Bangladesh River Delta at the root by focusing on the upstream region. The team competed with ten other international student teams and won the first prize of € 9000. -
Succesvolle SDG Scholierenconferentie: jongeren denken mee over duurzame toekomst
- Op vrijdag 24 mei verwelkomden we 60 leerlingen en hun docenten uit heel Nederland op onze campus voor de SDG scholierenconferentie 2024. Tijdens deze dag vonden prachtige rondetafelgesprekken plaats, georganiseerd door het Wageningen Youth Institute. -
Teams announcement Food Systems Innovation Challenge
- In the Food System Innovation Challenge, 18 teams from 9 different universities have been selected to implement their innovative solutions in the food systems through their project. With mentoring from experts in the field and funding (up to 2500 euro), they are working on their projects starting from April until September 2024, with the Grand Finals on 30 September 2024 on Wageningen Campus. Read more about the teams and their goals for this student challenge below! -
Nature-based Future Challenge: expert coaches help students to dream pragmatically
- Industry experts coach each team competing in the Nature-based Future Challenge. Specialists in ecology, landscape architecture, international governance, and all the other aspects of nature-based solutions lend their insight to help the student teams envision a nature-positive future. -
Second cohort selected for 2024 Youth Food Lab Incubator programme (WUR, FAO WFF, IAAS)
- After a successful year with the first cohort of the Youth Food Lab Incubator programme, newly selected teams have started the second edition of the Youth Food Lab Incubator Programme in early March this year. In this second year, the programme is expanded with an additional Research Track, focusing on Global One Health alongside the Entrepreneur Track in the Incubator programme. -
Nature-based Future Challenge: ‘The best teams tackle the problems at their source’
- After the first selection moment, twenty student teams remain to compete in the Nature-based Future Challenge and envision a nature-positive future for the Bangladesh River Delta. Two members of the selection committee explain what set these teams apart. -
More than 700 students worldwide envision a nature-positive future for Bangladesh
- Visualize a future in which nature and humans work together to mitigate the effects of climate change and biodiversity loss. That is the Nature-based Future Challenge. Students from all over the world will compete with their vision for a nature-positive future for Bangladesh. -
WUR delegation represents Youth Food Lab and Global One Health prize at World Food Forum
- A delegation from Wageningen University & Research attended the World Food Forum (WFF) in Rome from 16 to 20 October 2023 to showcase the results of the newly established Youth Food Lab incubator programme. Dr. ir. Sjoukje Heimovaara, President of the Executive Board of Wageningen University & Research, announced the first physical hub for the Youth Food Lab at WUR.