Where competition meets collaboration
You enjoy working on real-life problems, together in international and diverse teams, where everyone brings in their own perspective and experiences? You want to sharpen your problem-solving skills, get international competences, and be rewarded with credits for your studies or a micro-credential to add to your professional portfolio? You want to have the chance to work with industry partners that help you bring your ideas to life? Then, EuroTeQ has a lot to offer to you. And even better, it can be up to you to suggest an inspiring topic. Your mission will be to ignite the collective intelligence of your team and bring your project to the next level in local and European challenges.
The EuroTeQ Collider
Alongside the virtual Campus, the Collider is at the heart of our European University. The challenge-based learning competitions will encourage mixed teams to explore specific subjects together and work on innovative projects.
In research, scientists use a collider to accelerate elementary particles (atoms, electrons, neutrons…) to very high energy, provoking them to impact other particles to experiment, discover or validate new theories and transform matter. The EuroTeQ Collider aims to build on this mechanism: connecting participants with different profiles and personalities to boost creativity, innovation, shared understanding, enabling them to imagine new approaches, design disruptive solutions, and create prototypes to take up the respective challenge.
As students and professionals will work together in a joint effort, all participants will not only improve their technical skills but also enhance their soft skills such as team spirit, flexibility to work in multicultural environments, and design thinking, which are also very important in professional life.
If you want to get in touch here are the local contacts:
The CTU (Czech Technical University) Collider will run between 13 – 29 April 2024. Challenges are formed and acquired until March 2024, feel free to reach out to Henri Achten
The DTU (Technical University of Denmark) Collider is connected to different existing courses and will run between January and the end of May. Challenges are formed and acquired until January 2024, feel free to reach out to Christina Jespersen
The l’X (Ecole Polytechnique) Collider will run between mid-January and April. Challenges are formed and acquired until January 2024, feel free to reach out to Elise Herlicq
The TalTech (Tallinn University of Technology) Collider is connected to different existing courses and will run between February and June. Challenges are formed and acquired until mid-February 2024, feel free to reach out to Karl-Erik Karu and Ethel Praks
The TU/e (Eindhoven University of Technology) Collider will run between February and April. Challenges are formed and acquired until mid-January 2024, feel free to reach out to Lianne de Jong.
The TUM (Technical University of Munich) Collider will run between April and May. Challenges are formed and acquired until March 2024, feel free to reach out to Peter Finger.
EuroTeQaThon
Once the local Collider competitions have taken place, the best projects will be presented in an international event, the EuroTeQaThon.
The participating teams will pitch their projects to a dedicated judging panel composed of representatives from the industry, European public bodies, NGOs, and the EuroTeQ Advisory Board. The winning teams will gain a prize and the opportunity to develop their project further and pitch it to the European Commission.
Other challenge-based education offers
Courses
EuroTeQ partners offer interesting challenge-based learning approaches. This means that you can attend a virtual or blended course that focuses on challenges that occur in the world around us. You will search for solutions together with your fellow EuroTeQ students and professors. Mentored by a professor in the field, the students have a lot of freedom to approach the challenge and compete for the best solution. You will gain plenty of knowledge during lectures and webinars, work in an international group and on transdisciplinary approaches.
