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The Grand Challenges team are the winners of a Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence.
By completing Grand Challenges, students contribute to our Strategy 2030 goals.
Grand Challenges 2-6 June 2025
Grand Challenges 2025 is now open. Please click here to sign up. Please note that it is only open to undergraduate students.
Postgraduate students can apply to be facilitators. To apply, please click here.
To sign up for the Streatham Choose Your Challenge Event to find out more about our 2025 Streatham challenges, please complete this form.
To sign up for the Penryn Choose Your Challenge Event to find out more about our 2025 Penryn challenges, please complete this form.
Grand Challenges is a project week in which you work in interdisciplinary groups with other like-minded students to design innovative solutions to real world challenges. Top academics and invited speakers share their views and help you apply your skills and knowledge to a real-life problem. You have the opportunity to develop your transferable skills including team work, presentation skills and project planning. Read more.
Sustainable Development Goals
All of our Challenges topics link to the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
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With Grand Challenges you can meet like-minded people, develop a wide range of transferable skills, gain an understanding of global issues and have the potential to make a real impact.
Grand Challenges helps students to develop their sustainable thinking, self-awareness and experiential learning, in line with the GreenComp framework (The European sustainability competence framework).
"I met so many new people and we quickly became friends through working together"
After presenting to their challenges in the morning, all 70 student groups across 5 challenges were given a space on Forum Street to showcase their outputs from the week.
A collection of video clips from throughout Grand Challenges Week 2023 which saw students working on a variety of projects from podcasts to compost bins.