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Challenges

UvA Impact Challenge 2026

Register here: https://impactchallenge.uva.nl/register


  • UvA Students

  • Remote
  • 19 Feb 2026
Deadline registration 19 Feb 2026
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Building Social Impact and Community with Chemours in Dordrecht

Are you interested in social innovation, stakeholder management, or community building? Work with Chemours on a plan that puts social impact and sustainable relationships in Dordrecht at the center.


  • Looking for students with a background in social sciences, business, or communication

  • Baanhoekweg 22, 3313 LA Dordrecht, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 26 Feb 2026
Deadline registration 19 Feb 2026
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SDG-Challenge Spring 2026

Practical working experience for students who want to be challenged and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals!


  • All students who have affinity with sustainability or who want to gain real-life working experience!

  • Hybrid
  • 9 Mar 2026
Deadline registration 23 Feb 2026
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Powering the Future: The Hydrogen Separation Challenge

A roleplay simulation in which information is revealed progressively through conversations, reflecting real-world interactions between clients and contractors.


  • Students from technical or business disciplines with a strong interest in and affinity for the EPC industry

  • Taurusavenue 155, 2132 LS Hoofddorp, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 4 Mar 2026
Deadline registration 25 Feb 2026
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Configure the perfect cleaning trolley with Vebego

Help Vebego in designing an online solution for customers and prospects to configure the cleaning trolley of their dreams!


  • Enthusiastic students from all fields of study

  • In de Cramer 8, 6411 RS Heerlen, Netherlands
  • 6 Mar 2026
Deadline registration 27 Feb 2026
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Waterschap Brabantse Delta SDG-Challenge Spring 2026

Develop a concrete and practical idea that helps Waterschap Brabantse Delta become a more diverse, inclusive and equitable organisation.


  • Castle Bouvigne, Bouvignelaan 5, 4836 AA Breda, Netherlands, Hybrid
  • 25 Mar 2026
Deadline registration 28 Feb 2026
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Kiwa SDG-Challenge Spring 2026

Water Flow Map + Baseline on a Single A4 Create a simple visual map showing where water enters a location, where it is used, and where it flows out. In addition, provide an initial baseline based on 3–4 straightforward indicators, such as: - liters of water per day - main water‑using processes or equipment - cost per 1,000 liters - where possible: indirect water consumption (a rough estimate is sufficient) Top 3 Water Users & High‑Potential Quick Wins Identify the top three areas where the most water is used or wasted. For each area, describe: - what happens there - why it consumes a lot of water - which improvement actions are feasible - the potential savings in liters and euros


  • Enthusiastic students in; - Data analysis - Technical backgrounds (e.g. watermanagement) - Marketing/communication - Business/economics & business - Combination of students fluent in Dutch & English

  • Kuipersveld, Wilmersdorf 50, 7327 AC Apeldoorn, Netherlands, Hybrid
  • 9 Apr 2026
Deadline registration 28 Feb 2026
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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 Mar 2026
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Invest-NL SDG-Challenge Spring 2026

How can we invest in “AI for good” while ensuring that AI solutions are developed and deployed in a responsible, fair, and trustworthy way?


  • Ambitious and enthusiastic students in the areas of data/AI, business/finance, or ethics/sustainability. Any students interested in influencing investment decision making for the future!

  • Kingsfordweg 43, 1043 GP Amsterdam, Netherlands, Hybrid
  • 18 Mar 2026
Deadline registration 2 Mar 2026
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TU Delft Impact Contest


  • TU Delft students

  • Mekelweg 5, 2628 CD Delft, Netherlands
  • 5 Mar 2026
Deadline registration 4 Mar 2026
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Province of Gelderland SDG-Challenge Spring 2026

How can the Province of Gelderland effectively motivate and enable internal teams and members of the provincial council to actively and structurally integrate climate adaptation into their daily work and policymaking?


  • We welcome multidisciplinary student teams with backgrounds in behavioural science/psychology, public administration, communication or design, climate studies, political science/IR, or research. Dutch speakers and students within travel distance of Arnhem are preferred.

  • Markt 11, 6811 CG Arnhem, Netherlands, Hybrid
  • 17 Mar 2026
Deadline registration 11 Mar 2026
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KWS Infra (Royal Road Construction Stevin) SDG-Challenge Spring 2026

How can KWS (Royal Road Construction Stevin) set up a programme, within 6 to 12 months, in which 5–10 supply chain partners voluntarily share reliable ESG data (e.g. material and CO₂ data) without additional administrative burden, and how can the knowledge from this programme be shared across KWS?


  • Sustainability, data, logistics, supply chain management

  • Aziëhavenweg 21, 1046 BK Amsterdam, Netherlands, Hybrid
  • 30 Mar 2026
Deadline registration 16 Mar 2026
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Completed Challenges

Competentiegerichte Carrières in de Zorg bij MUMC+

Hoe betrekken en inspireren we Gen Z voor een toekomstgerichte, competentiegerichte zorgcarrière?


  • Nederlandse HBO & WO studenten

  • P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht, Netherlands, Onsite
  • 10 Feb 2026
Registration closed
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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
Registration closed
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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
Registration closed
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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
Registration closed
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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
Registration closed
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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
Registration closed
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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
Registration closed
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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
Registration closed
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