Students

Are you ready to make impact?

Work together with inspiring organisations and help sustainalize the world!

The SDG-Challenge is a great opportunity to create a practical impact on one or multiple of the 17 SDGs with your knowledge. Combine your skills within a multidisciplinary team and help companies solve their problems regarding the SDGs.

How does it work?

A quick overview of our program

Kick-off

Celebratory moment to meet the organisations & getting familiar with your team's challenge.

Sprint day

During the sprint day, the team will work, together with the organisational partner on the challenge through our "pressure-cooker" method.

YESDG-DAY

During the YesDG-Day, the team will take a moment to reflect on the progress so far and look at what's still coming up. Besides, we will take a deep dive into the SDGs by getting to know them even better.

Speeddates

This is your chance to shine as a student! There will be speeddates with the participating organizations, creating interesting network and career opportunities.

Finals

This is the time when all comes together. With your team, you will live on stage pitch your final solution to a professional jury. What impact does your solution create - the jury will for sure ask some critical questions! Are you ready to convince the jury?

Kick-off

Sprint day

YESDG-day

Speed dates

Finals

Want to participate?

Apply for the challenge in a couple of minutes

Do you want to help a business with their challenge AND make an impact on the SDGs? Register yourself now!

Apply to the SDG-Challenge here. Ensure to write a convincing motivation and don't forget to attach the link to your LinkedIn profile.

*All students can apply, you don't need any CSR experience.

receive a confirmation

Once you have been selected to participate, you will receive a confirmation mail or phone call. This means you are one of the lucky ones to participate and will be competing in the SDG-Challenge!

Work together with your team for a leading organisation

We will assemble a multidisciplinary team for you where you will be working with students from mixed backgrounds.

Present your solution and make an impact!

Your team will be able to present your solution at the finals for a wide audience. You will leave a positive impact and it might help your network!

Previous Participants

Chaitya Jain

Student Wageningen University & Research

“I think it was amazing working in my team. It started off as something really broad, but I think it's an important topic that should have been brought up earlier. It was great to see the interest of the employees in improving the work floor.”

Luc Spronk

Radboud University

“This challenge gives me the opportunity to get together with a company and actually put the theory into practice.”

Dora Bijvoet

Erasmus School of Economics

“The thing I enjoyed most was working with an interdisciplinary team and in close contact with BNG Bank”

Anne-Fleur Noordzij

University of Amsterdam

“This challenge gives me the opportunity to get together with a company and actually put the theory into practice”

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