Eudres activities

The E³UDRES² Bootcamp is a unique occasion to develop your ideas in an innovative environment and offer creative solutions for current regional challenges. Over the course of five days, you will be working in small teams with other E³UDRES² students to co-create a concept that contributes to what food (with all aspects attached to it) could look like in the years to come. No prior knowledge necessary! This year, the Bootcamp takes place from 03-07 July in Hungary.

The main goal of a Hackathon is to come up with an innovative idea, a first concept draft for a challenge by researching and brainstorming together with your team. The twist: Hackathons only give you about 36 to 48 hours time to come up with your solution! Participating in a Hackathon will sharpen your time management and organization skills, and also teach you how to focus on the essentials in a project.

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The E³UDRES² iResidency gives you the chance to dive deeper into the local communities of the E³UDRES² regions! For one week you will stay in one of these regions and get to know the challenges connected to the lifestyle outside of big metropoles. During this time, you will meet up with stakeholders, such as local politicians, company owners or community associations, and get an insight into real local challenges. Together with a small team of students and researchers, you will work on common solutions that can be transferred to all E³UDRES² regions.

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This year, the theme of the third Research Living Labs is “Shaping the Future of E³UDRES² research” - researchers, academic communities and stakeholders will be invited to project the future of the alliance's joint research, based on the current landscape of research at the 9 partner institutions. The highlights of the event include: A presentation of the 3 projects that are being used to build the E³UDRES² alliance Presentations by stakeholders about challenges and project ideas that can trigger new research projects inside the alliance A poster session aimed at fostering discussion on the future of our joint research

I Living Labs are course units in a study programme (or extracurricular course units) in which teams of students set to work on a challenge. This challenge is a complex problem that confronts an entrepreneur, (non-profit) organisation or local government for example, for which there is no cut-and-dried solution and for which a solution can have a positive impact on the region they are located in. The student teams working together over the course of several weeks in the I Living Lab have the benefit of profiting from all the individual backgrounds of each student - coming from different study programmes, different countries and being equipped with different skills, the teams represent a diverse mix of people, each bringing in their own strengths to solve the challenge they are working on. This is what we call trans-disciplinary work - and it’s also an important component in the tool belt of future jobs. Students will also work with entrepreneurs, policymakers, citizens, researchers, and other groups of people, who may offer a different perspective on the challenge the students are facing. Finally, education professionals will supervise the students in every step along the way. They are not there to tell them what to do and how to do it, but to coach the teams and provide maximum support.