Challenge:Future welcomes involvement from all universities and colleges! Nearly 1,000 universities and business schools from 184 countries were represented in the 2009/10 competition.

Why do schools get involved in Challenge:Future?

Challenge:Future offers participating schools:

  • A unique learning and development opportunity for all undergraduate and graduate students ages 18 to 30
  • A new avenue for developing mentoring and teaching excellence for all faculty members
  • A chance to demonstrate openness to innovation and global vision for a school as a whole.

    • Benefits for schools partnering with Challenge:Future:

  • Public recognition as an active and innovative school, capable of interacting with Generation Y
  • Exclusively dedicated page on the competition’s online platform with updated statistics of your school’s student and mentor involvements
  • Ten schools with most successful students, teams and mentors will be recognized in Challenge:Future Hall of Fame as Most Innovative Schools
  • Participating schools will be able to nominate judges for the competition
  • Challenge:Future encourages teamwork, collaboration and out-of-the-box thinking among students in the process of team creation and working together on the corporate challenges
  • Challenge:Future promotes your professors and their expertise through their involvement as mentors
  • Providing your students with an opportunity to compete for great prizes
  • Being able to apply to be the host of the next year’s competition and host the Challenge:Future Summit

    • Schools from around the world are discovering the benefits of Challenge:Future and contributing to the growth of Challenge:Future:

    EDHEC Ecole de Management, France

    "The 2009 initiative of Challenge:Future is considered the perfect addition to EDHEC’s renovated MSc program in Marketing Management, as envisioned by Prof. Guergana Guintcheva. She perceives the “Future of Connecting” as an integral part of the understanding necessary for the creation of new, unexplored opportunities for business development, which are the focus of the program’s newly conceived course in “Strategies for Disruptive Innovation”. The course instructor, Prof. Gaël Bonnin is happy to integrate CF’s initiative as a practical component of his course in order to illustrate the crucial role of innovative consumer insights in real-life business."

    Challenge:Future Most Innovative School Award

    The Most Innovative School Award is awarded to one school that has the most outstanding student performance during the Challenge:Future competition.

    Congratulations to:

    National University of Singapore for winning the Most Innovative School Award in the Challenge:Future Competition 2009/10!

    Image above: Ibnur Rashad B. Zainal Abidin accepting the award for NUS from dr. Igor Lukšič, Minister for Education and Sport, Republic of Slovenia and Prof. dr. Danica Purg, President of IEDC and CEEMAN, Chair of Challenge:Future (from left)

    Challenge:Future School Hall of Fame

    Aside from the Most Innovative School, Challenge:Future also honours 10 universities, colleges or business schools with most student activities in the competition by inducing them into the Challenge:Future School Hall of Fame.

  • Faculty of Economics Podgorica (34355 sparks)
  • ESCA Ecole de management (24895 sparks)
  • Information Systems Management Institute (ISMA) (22455 sparks)
  • Izmir University of Economics (17350 sparks)
  • University of Donja Gorica, Podgorica (16800 sparks)
  • University of Sydney (14620 sparks)
  • Irkutsk State University Baikal School of International Business(13980 sparks)
  • American University in Bulgaria (13805 sparks)
  • Singapore Management University (13600 sparks)
  • Warsaw School of Economics (12910 sparks)

    • Sparks are how the student activities are measured in the Challenge:Future Competition. See how the spark system works, click here. Simply put, sparks are rewarded to a student by being involved in various Challenge:Future activities or winning challenges or other contests. And of course, being the grand winner of the competition earns tons of sparks. The amount of sparks for a school is the sum of all the sparks of individual participating students from that school.

    Becoming a Challenge:Future mentor

    Challenge:Future might be a great tool for you as a faculty member to:

  • Put the topics of open innovation and sustainability on the agenda in a more exciting way
  • Bring more innovation and interaction into classroom
  • Get students explore their talents and creativity while addressing some important global and corporate challenges
  • Demonstrate your openness to collaboration and new ways of learning
  • Have fun while learning together, interacting with great minds, and meeting leading companies
  • Receive a certificate as a mentor of the semi-finalist teams
  • Win a prize of 3.000 € if you are mentor of the winning team!

    • As a mentor, you would be providing students with advice and relevant reference materials to help them shape their ideas, but of course not to solve the challenges instead of them! :) You will also be updated with the statistics of your school, your teams and their performance in Challenge:Future and are welcome to contribute with useful articles, news, or other materials on the challenge topics to the online platform. Please contact us if you are interested to become a mentor.

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