EuroTeQ Collider
Innovative Challenge-Based Learning for Engineers in Europe
TUM has joined forces with nine leading technical universities and business schools to form the EuroTeQ Alliance. This EU-funded Alliance aims to modernize engineering education in Europe. A new format, the EuroTeQ Collider, was created for this purpose.
The EuroTeQ Collider is a challenge-based learning format and was created by the EuroTeQ Universities. The term Collider symbolises that the most creative and innovative solutions often arise from the collision of ideas from diverse groups.
Local project weeks are organised at each of the nine EuroTeQ Universities, whereby these local Colliders are carried out independently of each other. During the local Collider, multidisciplinary, heterogeneous teams consisting of students, doctoral students, trainees and employees from various companies work on different challenges. The challenges are current issues that our partners from companies, the university environment or NGOs are currently dealing with. Representatives of these organisations support the teams as so-called Challenge Collaborators.
The EuroTeQ Collider also offers workshops on topics such as agile project management, design thinking, storytelling and pitch presentation in order to maximise the learning success of the participants and solve the challenge in the best possible way. At the end of the local Collider Weeks, all projects are pitched. The best projects will be selected by an independent jury and the three winning teams will be invited to the EuroTeQaThon.
The EuroTeQaThon is a three-day event with the aim of facilitating exchange between students from the partner universities, promoting creativity and innovation and finding possible synergies between projects from different universities. It takes place alternately at one of the partner universities. The final pitches are judged by a high-ranking jury made up of representatives from industry, European public institutions, non-governmental organisations and the EuroTeQ Advisory Board.
After the EuroTeQaThon, selected winning teams also have the opportunity to take part in a bootcamp with an entrepreneurial focus organised by TUM and our partner university, IESE Business School in Barcelona. This supports the teams that are interested in perpetuating their project.
The world we live in is interconnected and interdependent, and so are we. Enhance Connections for Sustainable Futures is a topic that aims to help us understand and appreciate the value of our connections with ourselves, others, and the environment. It also inspires us to use these connections as a source of strength, creativity, and collaboration in solving the global issues that affect us all.
The categories for challenges are:
- People – Build stronger communities by facilitating meaningful connections
- Nature – Develop mindful connections to nature and careful consideration for our environmental resources
- Economy – Forge collaborative economic innovation
The application of innovative Technology is an aspect of all projects, facilitating enhanced efficiency, optimized communication, and the implementation of data-driven decision-making processes. It encourages creativity and adaptability, thereby conferring a competitive advantage on projects operating within a context of rapid environmental change.
Schedule 2024/2025
- currently
Acceptance of new challenges from industry, NGOs and the university environment - Until 31 March 2025
Sign-up for learners - 25 April - 03 June 2025
Local Collider at TUM - 14 - 16 June 2025
EuroTeQaThon at TU/e in Eindhoven
For Partners
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For Learners
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Here is a sneak peak of our challenges for the Collider 2025!
More challenges will be added shortly.
The EuroTeQaThon 2024 at École Polytechnique in Paris
From 8 to 10 June 2024, the winning teams from all the partner universities gathered at the École Polytechnique in Paris for the EuroTeQaThon. These three days were an excellent opportunity for the students to connect and refine their projects. The TUM Teams FarmElf, Circularity Hub and SME Trace participated in the EuroTeQaThon. Team FarmElf convinced the jury and won in their category ‘Nature’ on the international level.
The Ignite Bootcamp at IESE Business School in Barcelona
In July 2024, selected teams had the opportunity to take part in the Ignite Bootcamp at the IESE Business School in Barcelona. In a four-day sprint, the students gained valuable knowledge on dealing with investors as well as team-specific mentoring from experts.
E-Mail: euroteq(at)ja.tum.de
Telephone: +49 89 289 22940