We organise challenges in which students and organisations work together to solve social issues in the Utrecht region

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About UCA

The Utrecht Challenge Alliance is an alliance for open innovation that aims to find regional solutions to social issues in collaboration between businesses, public organizations, governments and educational institutions. Within challenges students, professionals and citizens work together on these issues, leading to new insights, knowledge development and concepts for innovative solutions that contribute to healthy and sustainable urban living.

The Alliance is committed to working with organizations and public-private partnerships to identify concrete innovation questions around social issues. In cooperation with educational institutions to ensure that students can play a role in answering these questions. To help ensure that sustainable solutions can emerge from this co-creation.

What is a challenge

The challenges that the UCA is committed to are short innovation processes in which interdisciplinary teams work intensively with citizens and professionals to design innovative solutions to social issues.
The programmes focus on challenge-based learning on the education side and are intended to contribute to open innovation in the Utrecht region.

Watch the Sustainable Campus Challenge 2023 aftermovie for an impression.

Recent challenges

Next challenges

September 30 to October 4, 2024

Sustainable City Challenge 2024

More information soon

UCA is an initiative of

Recent challenges

Our website is currently still under development. Soon the information of the challenges that have been organized by us in the past will be displayed here.

Sustainable City Challenge 2022

Sustainable City Challenge 2021

Living Apart Challenge 2021

Sustainable Campus Challenge 2020

Healthy Living Challenge 2024

Dates: May and June 2024

In cooperation with: NUOVO schools, Health Hub Utrecht coalition Mental resilience youth (Lokalis, Garage2020, KOOS Utrecht and municipality of Vijfheerenlanden), Utrecht School of the Arts, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences and Utrecht University.

Sign up until May 15!

Contact

Utrecht Challenge Alliance
uca@hu.nl

Recent challenges

Sustainable City Challenge 22
Sustainable City Challenge 21
Living Apart Challenge 21
Sustainable City Challenge 20
Mobility Challenge 20
Healthy Living Challenge 19