Joinmultidisciplinary and international teams at the ECIU University and solve minichallenges linked to the SDG11 - Sustainable cities and communities, providedby business and societal partners across Europe. Participation in mini challengeswill allow you to make a real impact in the community, city, or region bysolving real-time local, national, and global challenges with a new way oflearning - the challenge-based learning.

Generalprocedure of a challenge:

1. The mini challenge is provided by acity, region or business stakeholder and is entered on the ECIU UniversityChallenge platform (challenges.eciu.org).
2. You register to the mini challengeyou find relevant on the platform.
3. An international andinterdisciplinary team is formed from registered participants from all ECIU partneruniversities and a team facilitator from the host university is assigned.
4. You work with the team on the minichallenge, engage, investigate, and propose non-technical solutions using thechallenge-based learning methodology (https://eciu.tuhh.de/challenge-based-learning/).
5. During the process, you can selectrelevant micro-modules from ECIU member universities that help you gainadditional knowledge or skills that are relevant to solve the mini challenge.
6. Finally, teams deliver their outputs- which may include services, products, research questions, start-ups andspin-offs.

By workingin multi-disciplinary and/or international teams, you will build upinter-cultural competences and increase your network of expertise by developingproblem-solving and team-work skills.

TUHH ismajor part of the ECIU University leading institution related to theChallenge-based learning. All ECIU challenges will constantly be updated at thechallenge platform: challenges.eciu.org

“Mini challenges” are challenges in the ECIU University that aresupposed to be done within 1-4 weeks. Focus is to define your actual challenge,find suitable solution(s) and to implement them. https://eciu.tuhh.de/cbl-in-more-detail/

This course is aimed at Master students frommember universities of the ECIU network (www.eciu.org). The course requires anindependent approach to work, the willingness to learn independently about newnon-technical topics and research methods, and the motivation to learn andactively participate in an international/disciplinary team.