You are interested in innovation and sustainability? Then become a part of our Future of Healthcare Challenge 2024! The International Future of Healthcare Challenge 2024 is an exciting partnership with Johnson & Johnson Sustainable Solutions (JJSS).
In an online collaboration space, you will develop and test new product ideas to solve societal or environmental problems in an international and multidisciplinary team of entrepreneurial students from European, Asian and American universities. You work with specialists at JJSS and will be coached by lecturers from participating universities to develop ideas, spot opportunities and test how your ideas could entry into the market.
For more information please watch our video or download our flyer.
Challenge4Impact aims to improve and support student business challenges on an international level. Therefore we research, evaluate, create guidelines and discuss our experiences. We are therefore pleased to provide you with a detailed overview of our project results. If you click on more, you will be redirected to the respective subpages of the project results.
- PR 1: Co-Designing Student-Business Sustainability Challenges. Setup, Digitalization and Internationalization (more)
- PR 2: Support Services for Student-Business Collaboration (more)
- PR 3: From Output to Impact in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Education (more)
- PR 4: Innovating Together Globally – Playbooks of Student-Business Sustainability Challenges – Insights, Reflections, and Roadmaps for Impact (more)
- PR 5: Fit for the Future – Playbooks for Training Skills Regarding Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Creative Problem-Solving, and Cross-Cultural Negotiation (more)
- PR 6: Outcomes and Impact of International Virtual Student Business Challenges in Sustainable Entrepreneurship (more)
- PR 7: Guidelines for Developing Support Services and Infrastructures for Student-Business Challenges (more)
Basis for PR 4 and PR 5 is the conceptualization and testing of different challenge formats. Following challenges have already taken place:
- Future of Healthcare Challenge 2023
- Cross-cultural Challenge
- Creativity Challenge
- Negotiation Challenge
Interested to learn more current challenge formats? Please contact Frans Stel from Vennebroek Academic Services
Project Results Overview
PR 1: Co-Designing Student-Business Sustainability Challenges. Setup, Digitalization and Internationalization
This handbook serves as a valuable resource for universities teachers to integrate student-business collaborations into their challenge-based courses.
PR 2: Support Services for Student-Business Collaboration
The brochure synthesises the results of our research on these actors and their intermediary activities and presents eight good-practice examples of support offered for university students, teaching personnel and business partners.
PR 3: From Output to Impact in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Education
The guide explains the methodological principles of teaching-related impact management and provides assistance in setting up your own impact management system.
PR 4: Innovating Together Globally – Playbooks of Student-Business Sustainability Challenges – Insights, Reflections, and Roadmaps for Impact
The aim of the playbook is to provide learning, teaching and training materials. It is a user manual or handbook for all who are interested in Challenge-based Learning as a training method to promote sustainable entrepreneurship.
PR 5: Fit for the Future – Playbooks for Training Skills Regarding Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Creative Problem-Solving, and Cross-Cultural Negotiation
In the playbooks we present the design, implementation and evaluation of serious games developed for international student-business challenges in sustainable entrepreneurship.
PR 6: Outcomes and Impact of International Virtual Student Business Challenges in Sustainable Entrepreneurship
This report shows how multidisciplinary student teams tackle real-world sustainability challenges provided by business partners and develop innovative solutions that align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
PR 7: Guidelines for Developing Support Services and Infrastructures for Student-Business Challenges
The guidelines provide insights into how to develop effective support systems and sustainable infrastrucutures for scaling student-business challenges.
This website was carried out as part of the Challenge4Impact project. Challenge4Impact (Project Reference: 2021-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000032242) is funded by the Erasmus+/Cooperation Partnership Programme of the European Union.
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