After a successful pilot focusing on sustainable agriculture in the spring of 2015, the Sustainable Futures Challenge will return and be expanded for the academic year 2015-2016. The focus of the challenge is to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation in areas of importance for creating a sustainable future for the world.

We will place scientists, engineers, business students, social scientists, and artists on teams to solve a challenge in one of five categories:

1. Food

2. Water

3. Health

4. Energy

5. Materials

Solutions will need to take into account and will be judged on innovative nature, sustainability, and economy. Teams will workshop their ideas with industry experts at workshops during Lent term, continue to workshop and create a prototype during Easter term, and then present their solutions on stage at the TVC in front of investors, academics, students, and incubators.

Come learn about the new challenges for this year, meet potential team members, and start brainstorming for a more sustainable future.

Speakers include:

Matt Hopgood, Cambridge Development Initiative

Christina Larkin, Cambridge Green Challenge Living Laboratory

Dr. Tempest van Schaik, Science-Practice

Freddi Scheib, President of CUTEC and creator of the Sustainable Futures Challenge