New Challenge-X announced: the ideal inner city in Limburg for the young people

Challenge-X connects business and organisations from the (EU)region with talented students on the basis of real-life business challenges. The current Challenge-X will contribute to defining a vision on the ideal inner cities in Limburg and will help to find a solution to the problem. Any student can participate. Students can win the change to make their idea happen and a cash price from € 1,000, € 200 or € 100. Deadline for submitting is December, 3.

The timeline after the deadine is as follows: 

• December 7 : The Top 5 ideas are announced. A jury picks the best 10 ideas from all submissions. These will be put before the client who then will decide  on the Top 5; 
• December 8 to 11: The contributors to these Top 5 ideas will receive a free design thinking & pitch preparation workshop; 
• December 12: The Top 5 contestants will pitch their idea before a live jury and audience. The winner, runner-up and third place will be announced. 
• January 2018: The 3 winners’ idea’s will be elaborated and worked into a tangible action plan; 
• February 2018: Pitching the winning ideas by the winners, during the national retail challenge (also held in February 2018).

The organizing partners of the Challenge-X are the Science Factory, Jules Job Pools and Maastricht University.