The Utrecht Challenge Alliance is a partnership for open innovation, aimed at finding regional solutions to societal challenges through collaboration between businesses, public organizations, government agencies, and educational institutions. Through 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.
We organize challenges in which students and organizations collaborate to solve social issues in the Utrecht region
Upcoming ChallengesAbout UCA
The Alliance is committed to working with organizations and public-private partnerships to identify specific innovation questions related to social issues. In collaboration with educational institutions, it aims to ensure that students can play a role in addressing these questions. It also helps ensure that this co-creation process leads to sustainable solutions.
What is a challenge?
The challenges the UCA is committed to addressing are short innovation projects in which interdisciplinary teams collaborate closely with citizens and professionals to design innovative solutions to societal issues.
From an educational perspective, these projects focus on challenge-based learning and are intended to contribute to open innovation in the Utrecht region.
Watch the aftermovie of the Sustainable City Challenge 2023 to get a sense of what it was like.
Upcoming Challenges
UCA is an initiative of
Recent Challenges
Our website is currently under development. Information about the challenges we have organized in the past will be available here soon.
Contact
Utrecht Challenge Alliance
uca@hu.nl