All Student Challenges news items
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Startup that converts agricultural waste with fermentation wins 4TU Impact Challenge
- Team Afterlife from Wageningen University & Research has won the fifth edition of the 4TU Impact Challenge. Afterlife focuses on converting agricultural waste streams into a protein source using fungal fermentation. -
New challenge has students design a ‘nature-based future’
- During the Nature-Based Future Challenge, students learn that nature is key to a hopeful, green future. This international challenge has students collaborating in a pressure cooker to develop a future perspective for a delta. How can the flames be fanned? -
Shorter Student Challenges coming soon
- The Wageningen Student Challenges easily take up half a year of students’ time. The challenges are of a considerable scale and open to teams from all over the world. Because this amount of time is too much for some students, two shorter challenges will be developed. The first is to start in the spring. -
Wageningen self-test for brain damage wins silver in student competition
- During the annual SensUs Challenge, a team of students from Wageningen University & Research has developed a self-test for non-congenital brain damage, which limits the need for expensive imaging scans. The team, known as SenseWURk, claimed second place during the finals of the competition at the beginning of September. -
QING Innovation Track Update
- In 2021, WUR Student Challenges launched the QING Innovation Track together with engineering company QING. For this challenge, young people around the world could apply to submit their innovative ideas that contribute to improving food systems and positively impact climate change. In the end, five high-potential projects were chosen that received three months of support from a personal mentor from QING. That wasn't all, each team also received €2500 seed money! -
Proteins fermented by fungi win the ReThink Waste Challenge
- Team Afterlife won first prize for with their concept of converting agricultural foodwaste into a source of protein with the help of fungi. The jury commended the team for focussing on a waste stream that is a challenge to ferment. The team is awarded € 6.000 and professional support to further develop their idea into a real start-up that might change the future of waste. -
The ReThink Waste Challenge is coming full circ(ular): the Grand Finals are ahead
- 6 months ago, 190 students from 33 different countries started their journey with the ReThink Waste Challenge to come up with a circular and biobased innovation to reduce, reuse or recycle waste. After two milestone reports, entrepreneurial trainings and several workshops, only 46 of them are still in the competition. The top 10 teams are now preparing to face the Rethink Waste Challenge Jury on 21 June during the Grand Finals. -
Discussing our zero waste future with student innovators during the ReThink Waste Challenge
- The student teams competing in the ReThink Waste Challenge have received essential advice from industry experts. It has taken their ideas to the next level by honing in on the essence of their innovation, challenging them to communicate their ambition or even pushing them to change direction. Meet some of the students and their coaches and learn about their experience during the Challenge. -
New Nature-Based Future Challenges thanks to philanthropic donation
- Climate change, loss of biodiversity and food insecurity are threats to the global food supply and our society that require pioneering solutions. Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and the University Fund Wageningen are therefore partnering with the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) to launch a series of three Nature-based Future Challenges. Aim of these student challenges is to stimulate student teams to find solutions that mitigate climate change effects and contribute to a biodiversity positive future. The FFAR is donating over $250,000 to make this challenge a reality. -
Launch of the Youth Food Lab
- The Youth Food Lab has been officially announced at the International Conference for Youth in Agriculture in Wageningen. The announcement followed the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the United Nations Food And Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Wageningen University & Research (WUR), and an earlier announcement at the World Food Forum.