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Challenges

SDG-Challenge Portugal Spring 2026


  • All students who are interested in making real-life change in the Alentejo region of Portugal.

  • Onsite
  • 20 Apr 2026
Deadline registration 1 Feb 2026
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Pre-Registration UvA Impact Challenge 2026


  • UvA Students

  • Remote
  • 31 Mar 2027
Deadline registration 31 Mar 2027
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Completed Challenges

Turning Heat Waste into Regional Impact – Urenco Netherlands

Goal of the Session During a brainstorm day in a multidisciplinary team, explore: - What could UNL do with this residual heat? - What are opportunities, risks, and creative ideas? - How do you approach something like this, technically, legally, societally?


  • Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Sustainable Energy Technology, Law (with a focus on Energy and Environmental Law), Communication Sciences, Human Geography & Spatial Planning

  • 7602 PK Almelo, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 27 Nov 2025
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Insurance Challenge 14

Ontwerp één of twee initiatieven/ producten en/of diensten die onderdeel moeten zijn van het strategisch plan voor TVM om haar ambitie waar te maken: de duurzame verzekeraar voor weg- en watertransport in 2030.


  • Nederlandstalige WO-studenten in de richting van International Business, Bedrijfskunde, Economie, Rechten, IT en Econometrie.

  • Van Limburg Stirumstraat 250, 7901 AW Hoogeveen, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 26 Nov 2025
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Municipality of Maastricht and Maastricht Bereikbaar SDG-Challenge Autumn 2025

What kind of multi-year strategy can you develop to engage important (existing and new) stakeholders, to bind them to the initiative, and to ensure they show co-ownership of the #posifiets approach?


  • A team of multidisciplinary and motivated students

  • Hybrid
  • 25 Nov 2025
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Engineering the Closure Process for Traffic & More

Planning a temporary road closure involves several equally important phases. Help Traffic & More improve the closure process.


  • Students from all fields of study

  • Nedereindseweg 503-A, 3546 PM Utrecht, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 25 Nov 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
  • 20 Nov 2025
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SOL/People-Planet-Food Hackathon


  • HBO & WO students in all fields of study.

  • Croeselaan 18, 3521 CB Utrecht, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 20 Nov 2025
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GenAI for Avebe Innovation (SOL/People-Planet-Food Hackathon)

Generative AI opens up exciting possibilities helping us search faster, connect ideas more easily, and spend less time digging for useful data in our innovation and research work. At Avebe, we’re ready to embrace these tools, but we know it’s not just about plugging them in and hoping for the best.


  • HBO & WO students in all fields of study.

  • Croeselaan 18, 3521 CB Utrecht, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 20 Nov 2025
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How to assess the effect of pumping Batter in our factories and simulate this on lab scale? (SOL/People-Planet-Food Hackathon)


  • HBO & WO students in all fields of study.

  • Croeselaan 18, 3521 CB Utrecht, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 20 Nov 2025
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Scaling Nature-Based Solutions: From Pilots to Full-Scale Impact (SOL/People-Planet-Food Hackathon)


  • HBO & WO students in all fields of study.

  • Croeselaan 18, 3521 CB Utrecht, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 20 Nov 2025
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Empowering communities through everyday help (SOL/People-Planet-Food Hackathon)


  • HBO & WO students in all fields of study.

  • Croeselaan 18, 3521 CB Utrecht, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 20 Nov 2025
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Moving people (SOL/People-Planet-Food Hackathon)


  • HBO & WO students in all fields of study.

  • Croeselaan 18, 3521 CB Utrecht, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 20 Nov 2025
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Cracking the Protein Puzzle: How to Reach 50/50 by 2030 (SOL/People-Planet-Food Hackathon)


  • HBO & WO students in all fields of study.

  • Croeselaan 18, 3521 CB Utrecht, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 20 Nov 2025
Registration closed
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