Step On The Box

Challenges

Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2025

Samsung Solve for Tomorrow is a challenge that invites young people to develop creative, tech-based solutions to real community issues. Participants work in teams (2–5 members), receive mentorship, join workshops, and pitch their ideas in a final event. This year’s themes are: Sustainability through Technology – Focus on circular economy and environmental solutions. Sport & Tech – Use technology to make sports more inclusive and impactful. Participants get the chance to win a €2,500 group prize, along with mentoring and exposure. It’s not just a competition—it’s a chance to build skills, connect with others, and make a real impact.


  • Students/youngsters between 16 and 25 years old from the Netherlands and Belgium

  • Avioport, Evert van de Beekstraat 310, 1118 CX Schiphol, Netherlands
  • 7 Oct 2025
Deadline registration 5 Sep 2025
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Smeets Vastgoedservice Challenge

Hoe blijft Smeets Vastgoedservice een relevant partner voor woningcorporaties in 2030?


  • HBO/WO-studenten (Facility Management, Built Environment, Psychologie, HRM, Finance, Sustainability en Engineering), voorkeur Nederlandstalig maar Engelstalig mag ook.

  • Kotterweg 20, 6222 NR Maastricht, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 16 Sep 2025
Deadline registration 9 Sep 2025
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Help TGN|Fritom Shape the Future of Logistics!

TGN|Fritom is at a turning point. Currently focused on transport, the company is opening a brand-new warehouse and aims to become an innovative, sustainable full-service logistics provider. Think smart warehousing, fulfilment, AI, robotics, and green logistics.


  • Dutch and International students with an affirmation for Logistics, Technology and Business Administration

  • Botterweg 21, 8042 PA Zwolle, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 24 Sep 2025
Deadline registration 11 Sep 2025
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Hendrix Genetics SDG-Challenge Autumn 2025

How can Hendrix Genetics replace natural gas heating with renewable, energy-efficient alternatives like heat pumps, biomass, or waste heat recovery to achieve CO₂-neutral hatcheries?


  • Energymanagement, knowledge of hydrogen, hydrogenmanagement, engineering, mechanical engineering

  • Spoorstraat 69, 5831 CK Boxmeer, Netherlands, Hybrid
  • 30 Oct 2025
Deadline registration 15 Sep 2025
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SDG-Challenge Autumn 2025

The SDG-Challenge connects students with organisations to solve real-world sustainability issues aligned with the UN's sustainable development goals


  • All students who wish to make an impact on the SDGs!

  • Onsite
  • 16 Oct 2025
Deadline registration 15 Sep 2025
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Ultranav SDG-Challenge Autumn 2025

How can Ultranav harness the power of wind to make global shipping more sustainable?


  • Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering Naval Architecture / Maritime Engineering (possibly with a business minor) International Business Industrial Engineering & Management Logistics & Economics / Supply Chain Management Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)

  • Blaak 555, 3011 GL Rotterdam, Netherlands, Hybrid
  • 28 Oct 2025
Deadline registration 15 Sep 2025
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ASVZ SDG-Challenge Autumn 2025

Hoe kunnen we een interactief SDG-dashboard ontwikkelen dat medewerkers bewust maakt van hun individuele bijdrage aan alle Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) en hen aanzet tot concrete actie? De oplossing moet aansluiten bij bestaande (en toekomstige) initiatieven binnen ASVZ, naadloos geïntegreerd worden met interne communicatiemiddelen en relevant zijn in de dagelijkse werkprocessen van medewerkers.


  • Nederlandstalige studenten met affiniteit voor zorg, zorgtechnologie of ICT, webontwikkeling, duurzaamheid, energiebesparing, armoedebestrijding of communicatie.

  • Touwbaan 1, 3363 WB Sliedrecht, Netherlands, Hybrid
  • 11 Nov 2025
Deadline registration 15 Sep 2025
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OMRON SDG-Challenge Autumn 2025

How can OMRON be considered a strong candidate for ‘Best Employer 2026’, particularly with regard to sustainability and its support for youth entering the job market?


  • HR, Engineering, Business, IT, Digital Marketing & Communication

  • Wegalaan, 2132 JD Hoofddorp, Netherlands, Hybrid
  • 4 Nov 2025
Deadline registration 15 Sep 2025
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Lely SDG-Challenge Autumn 2025

How can Lely transform the service fleet of its owned centers into a fossil-free operation, in a way that is both realistic and actionable?


  • Logistics en planning, supply chain, changemanagement, sociology, finance, driverslisence needed

  • Cornelis van der Lelylaan 1, 3147 PB Maassluis, Netherlands, Hybrid
  • 6 Nov 2025
Deadline registration 15 Sep 2025
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ONE-Dyas SDG-Challenge Autumn 2025

How can Q16-Maas, a depleted offshore gas field near the Port of Rotterdam, be developed into Europe’s first offshore underground hydrogen storage (UHS) facility—supporting a scalable, secure, and flexible hydrogen market for the region and the Netherlands?


  • Those with a strong interest in the energy sector—particularly individuals with a technical engineering background, a business and policy-oriented mindset, or a focus on environmental policy and regulation

  • Parnassusweg 815, 1082 MD Amsterdam, Netherlands, Hybrid
  • 30 Oct 2025
Deadline registration 15 Sep 2025
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Movares SDG-Challenge Autumn 2025

How can we make the "added value" of climate-adaptive and climate-mitigating solutions in built environment (cities and neighbourhoods) in the Netherlands measurable and visible—using real SDG 13 (Climate Action: urges immediate global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, integrate climate planning into policies, build societal resilience against climate-related hazards) indicators like heat stress, flooding, drought and water nuisance?


  • Wageningen, affinity with climate (SDG 13), affinity with architecture/construction

  • Jaarbeursboulevard 280, 3521 BC Utrecht, Netherlands, Hybrid
  • 6 Nov 2025
Deadline registration 15 Sep 2025
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Help Green Boutique Make Swimming Sustainable

Our holiday parks offer guests the luxury of a heated outdoor swimming pool at 28 °C all year round. This is an important part of our guest experience and a key differentiating feature. However, heating the pools in winter requires a great deal of electrical energy. At that time, our solar panels generate hardly any electricity. In addition, restarting pools that have been shut down is not efficient: heat pumps operate slowly in cold conditions and consume a lot of energy. **Design a technically and economically feasible sustainable heating system for the pools that: ** Can maintain 28 °C year-round. Significantly reduces electricity consumption. Makes maximum use of renewable energy. Minimises heat loss without creating operational obstacles for staff or guests. Achieves a reasonable payback period within 5 years. **Current challenges ** • High energy costs in winter: the heat pump consumes a lot of electricity at low outdoor temperatures, combined with low solar panel output. • Slow start-up of pools that have been shut down: it takes a lot of energy and time before the pool reaches the desired temperature again. • Heat loss through the surface: a thin roller cover limits heat loss, but the effect is limited. • Insulation panels tested: experiments with insulation panels on the roller cover showed measurable energy savings, but proved operationally impractical (time-consuming and inconvenient for daily use).


  • 25 Sep 2025
Deadline registration 18 Sep 2025
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Completed Challenges

Innovation just with cooperation

How can we effectively engage Dutch municipalities and provinces and encourage them to make the right choice for a sustainable road?


  • International HBO and WO Students

  • Magistratenlaan 82, 5223 MD 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 1 Jul 2025
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Mijn Parkstad 2040

Jongerenparticipatie; Hoe denken jongeren uit Stadsregio Parkstad over onderwerpen binnen toekomstverhaal Parkstad Limburg 2040?


  • Jongeren (14-27 jaar) uit en/of woonachtig in de stadsregio Parkstad die hun visie willen geven over onderwerpen binnen toekomstverhaal van Stadsregio Parkstad.

  • Promenade 14-26, 6411 JK Heerlen, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 25 Jun 2025
Registration closed
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Insurance Challenge 12

Bedenk strategieën die de betaalbaarheid van verzekeringsproducten waarborgen, terwijl risico's effectief worden beheerd, met name gezien de toenemende claims als gevolg van klimaatverandering.


  • Nederlandstalige HBO en WO-studenten.

  • Schenkkade 65, 2595 AS Den Haag, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 4 Jun 2025
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Through Future Eyes: Reimagining Sustainability for Mother Earth and Generations Yet to Come

How would unborn generations and Mother Earth respond to Oasen’s current sustainability policy? Imagine that both have a voice and could share their feedback.


  • National and international students with a background and/or passion in sustainability and a mindset on preserving on of the earth's precious resources: water.

  • Woerden, Netherlands
  • 4 Jun 2025
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De Toekomst van Communicatie bij BsGW

Hoe bereikt BsGW Limburgse jongeren op een slimme, begrijpelijke en effectieve manier?


  • Nederlandstalige HBO en WO studenten met een achtergrond in marketing, communicatie, bedrijfskunde, bestuurskunde of sociale studies

  • Kerkeveldlaan 2, 6042 JX Roermond, Netherlands
  • 3 Jun 2025
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Fostering Interdepartmental Collaboration in a High-Tech Scale-Up

How can we promote interdepartmental collaboration and a strong sense of unity as Robin Radar Systems rapidly expands into multiple adjacent buildings?


  • Students in the field of Architecture, Organizational Psychology, HR, Project management or other related fields

  • Laan van Waalhaven 355, 2497 GM Den Haag, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 20 May 2025
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Rabobank GenAI Challenge

Develop an actionable vision of Robin as an advanced Digital Assistant focused on customers from 0 to 30 years of age. Prepare a pitch to showcase your vision at the end of the day.


  • National and international students with background in business, AI, Data, etc.

  • Croeselaan 18, 3521 CB Utrecht, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 20 May 2025
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NBA Auditing the Future - team Maastricht University

UM Students, prepare for a day filled with surprises, game elements and pressure!


  • Maastricht University second and third-year undergraduate students in financial-economical study disciplines.

  • Mercuriusplein 3, 2132 HA Hoofddorp, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 16 May 2025
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NBA Auditing the Future - team UvA

UvA Students, prepare for a day filled with surprises, game elements and pressure!


  • UvA second and third-year undergraduate students in financial-economical study disciplines.

  • Mercuriusplein 3, 2132 HA Hoofddorp, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 16 May 2025
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NBA Auditing the Future - team Erasmus

Erasmus University Students, prepare for a day filled with surprises, game elements and pressure!


  • Erasmus University second and third-year undergraduate students in financial-economical study disciplines.

  • Mercuriusplein 3, 2132 HA Hoofddorp, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 16 May 2025
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NBA Auditing the Future - team Tilburg University

Tilburg University Students, prepare for a day filled with surprises, game elements and pressure!


  • Tilburg University second and third-year undergraduate students in financial-economical study disciplines.

  • Mercuriusplein 3, 2132 HA Hoofddorp, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 16 May 2025
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NBA Auditing the Future - team University of Groningen

University of Groningen Students, prepare for a day filled with surprises, game elements and pressure!


  • University of Groningen second and third-year undergraduate students in financial-economical study disciplines.

  • Mercuriusplein 3, 2132 HA Hoofddorp, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 16 May 2025
Registration closed
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