Joinmultidisciplinary and international teams at the ECIU University and solve standardchallenges linked to the SDG11 - Sustainable cities and communities, providedby business and societal partners across Europe. Participation in standard 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 standard challenge is providedby a city, region or business stakeholder and is entered on the ECIU UniversityChallenge platform (challenges.eciu.org).
2. You register to the standard 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 standardchallenge, 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 standard 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

“Standard challenges” are challenges in the ECIUUniversity that are supposed to be done within 3-6 months. Focus is to defineyour actual challenge, find suitable solution(s) and to implement as well asevaluate and publish 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.