What is the Urban Living Challenge?
The Urban Challenge is an interuniversity student competition that mobilizes various actors and partners from the academic, community, municipal and business sectors around issues related to sustainable development. The objectives of this partnership between the Desjardins International Institute for Cooperatives of HEC Montréal, McGill’s CIRM and Desjardins Lab‘s Cooperathon, are to bring together students from different universities and disciplines and give them the opportunity to collaborate to develop a project that will help improve the quality of life of Montrealers.
The Urban Living Challenge aims to conceive concrete, creative and regenerative projects that can not only respond to an urban problem, but also contribute to improve the lives of Montrealers by offering an innovative solution to this problem.
How does it works?
The Urban Living Challenge offers the option of creating multidisciplinary teams of undergraduate and graduate students. The members of these teams enrolled in faculties of engineering, administration, arts and sciences will be able to develop a project under the specific theme of mobility in a perspective of sustainable development. This competition will take place in two phases and will take into account the academic calendar and the obligations of the participants.
Learn more about the 2018 annual challenge: Mobility in Montreal
Phase 1 : Cooperathon
The first phase of the Urban Living Challenge is part of the Cooperathon produced by Desjardins Lab, a competitive platform that allows the co-creation of innovative projects with high social impact.
This event corresponds to a 25-day course split into five stages allowing, in turn, the training of teams, the analysis and understanding of the prescribed theme, the definition of a problem and finally the development of a solution that should be the subject of an implementation plan. This five-week platform also offers about ten hours of specialized training in the field of entrepreneurship.
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Key dates
- September 10, 2018: McGill information session
- September 18, 2018: HEC Montréal information session, 1pm-2pm, Xerox Canada room, Côte-Sainte-Catherine building, 1st floor, yellow section.
- September 20, 2018: Pitch and networking evening – Cooperathon’s Energy and Environment theme
- September 21, 2018: Friends of Cooperathon Happy Hour
- September 26, 2018: Launch of Coopérathon 2018
For any questions, please contact: defiurbain@hec.ca
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