All information regarding this competition can be obtained at the Centre for International Collaboration, II floor of the Dean's Building.

Call for  students’ competition

“Circle U. Challenge”

Circle U. Challenge is a series of challenges across European universities, who are part of the Circle U. partner alliance. The solutions that are developed within the Challenge are intended to enable Challengers to respond to their everyday issues. This exercise aims to show students how the real world works and what it takes to develop a viable business opportunity.

Students from seven of the Circle U. partner universities can join one or all of the challenges. Here students come up with sustainable solutions to real life challenges, while working in cross disciplinary teams. Teams can be formed at a single university, but can also include students from different European universities.

Students take part in workshops, acquiring tools and skills, which they can then apply when working with the challenges, hence all students are considered capable of participating and no previous experience with solving challenges is required.

The programme fosters the development of transferable skills – communication, teamwork, problem-solving, creativity, and multilingualism - and supports students in acquiring interdisciplinary and intercultural understanding.

Students from these universities can apply: Aarhus University, University of Belgrade, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, King's College London, UCLouvain, University of Oslo and Université Paris Cité.

Full-time students of all years of study from seven of the Circle U. universities can apply to participate in this programme. Students can apply to solve any Challenge from any of the universities, regardless of whether it is their home university and whether there is any Challenge proposed by their university. Students should apply to solve the Challenge of their choice, and will receive full support while working on the solution!

The programme is designed so that students can either apply as individuals, or as an already formed team. Matchmaking and team formation is the phase when students will be put together, new teams will be formed and new members will potentially be added to the already-formed teams.

Once the application is submitted, all students will be contacted by their university who will inform them about the work to be done and the process of forming teams.

The final, interdisciplinary teams will begin their work on developing solutions for the selected Challenge in the three-week educational and interactive Bootcamp programme. At the end of the Bootcamp phase, a pitching session will be held for each Challenge, where all the teams that have chosen that same Challenge will present their solutions. The selected teams will then enter the next phase of the programme – the “Mentored solution development” and work on further developing their solution until the final event in Belgrade in May 2023.

All information are available on the website of the University of Belgrade: https://bg.ac.rs/en/university/challenge.php, and the Circle U. website: https://www.circle-u.eu/opportunities/students/challenge/

Deadline for application is October 15, 2022.