Do you want to work in a multidisciplinary team and solve a real-world urban challenge together with students from different universities across Europe? Sign up for 4EU+ Urban Health Case Challenge 2023 now, and represent Charles University in this exciting student competition!

The Urban Health Case Challenge (UHCC) is an activity organized within the 4EU+ European University Alliance. It addresses urban changes concerning health and demographic transformation. In 2023, the case challenge is focused on obesity in an urban environment. Obesity is one of the main civilizational challenges of our times. According to WHO, obesity is “often the result of environmental and societal changes associated with development and lack of supportive policies in sectors such as health, agriculture, transport, urban planning, environment, food processing, distribution, marketing, and education.” Together with your team, you will work on a solution to a given case question concerning one of these relations.

In the case challenge (also often called the case competition) the participating student teams strive to develop the best solution to a real-world issue within a limited time span. Each team presents their solution in front of an expert jury at a session on the last day of the case challenge.

The aim is to strengthen university students’ competencies and engagement in solutions to real-world cases through employment of practical, theoretical, innovative and interdisciplinary thinking. Students are going to work in mixed teams, to network and learn from and with each other, faculty, the external case provider and other stakeholders. Students will learn to work innovatively and cross-disciplinarily to solve complex case problems, train their presentation skills and practice task and time management.

Full-degree Bachelor, Master's and PhD students from 4EU+'s partner universities and Uppsala University (Sweden), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) can participate in the challenge.