Environmentally friendly, efficient, sustainable. EuroTeQ Collider announces new challenges for student teams

EuroTeQ Collider is an educational competition based on sustainability challenges for which students work in multidisciplinary teams to find solutions. Knowledge from different disciplines and the ability to link it to the needs of society and industry are essential. At the same time, students improve their soft-skills, flexibility to work in a multicultural environment and design thinking. Last year, three teams with the participation of FA students made it to the international finals. You can read more about their achievements in the news.

The overarching theme this time is "Enhance Connections for Sustainable Futures" and the competition is in the sub-categories of people, nature and technology. Throughout the Collider, participants can seek advice and mentoring from the EuroTeQ network and attend courses and conferences. A jury will then select the winning teams. The winning projects will go forward to the international EuroteQaThon competition, where they will compete against projects from other partner universities.

Capexus' challenge is called the Future Workspace. Competing teams will look for ways to design more sustainable and healthy interiors. They should work with recycled and upcycled materials, incorporate greenery and energy efficient technologies. All within an economically feasible solution.

Prague Energy is launching a call for proposals for an energy community. The completed project should be a community in the PRE distribution area that will reflect the efforts to reduce energy consumption and local emissions. Teams should work with the integration of electric vehicles, charging stations, photovoltaics and other modern technologies.

The teams in Valeo's challenge will design modifications to the building to make it smarter and greener. They should come up with new ideas for sustainable solutions for shading, lighting or the use of residual heat from server rooms. All with the aim of eliminating CO2 emissions.

An introduction of all challenges that students of CTU can solve in the current round of EuroTeQ Collider is available on the website of EuroTeQ CTU. If you are interested in the topics, register for the CTUQCOL course in KOS.