31/08/2026
What happens when students from different countries and disciplines come together to tackle real-world challenges?
From 5–8 May, students from across the EUTOPIA alliance gathered at the University of Gothenburg for the EUTOPIA Innovation Challenges for Students, working in international and interdisciplinary teams on sustainability challenges brought by local organisations and public authorities.
Four days of workshops, field visits, brainstorming and teamwork led to more than solutions. It also challenged the way students think, collaborate and approach complex problems.
🗣️ “It’s beautiful how all of these perspectives align in order to reach one specific goal.” — Diarra Sadji from Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
🗣️ “You have to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and approach the problem from a completely different standpoint.” — Benjamin DuBosq from Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona
🗣️ “We have access to so many universities and backgrounds. What we can come up with together is different from what we can develop while working in our own universities.” — Carina Ivu from Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
🗣️ “Learning with each other will only prepare us more for the future problems we are going to face.” — João Mira from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
For the students, sustainability meant looking beyond a single discipline or perspective and discovering what becomes possible when different experiences, ideas and ways of thinking come together.
💻 Read the full story and hear more from the participants: https://bit.ly/4zHycW9
