Challenge Yourself,
Challenge Your City

The CircularCityChallenge starts in:

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Challenge Yourself,
Challenge Your City

The CircularCityChallenge starts in:

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CircularCityChallenge provides youth with the means to be heard and get involved in key decisions for the future of their communities.
CircularCityChallenge is an opportunity for younger generations to be involved in society’s transition to a circular way of living. We encourage the participants to identify the problems related to climate change and social inequalities and, through project-based curricula, propose sustainable solutions to their local governments.
CircularCityChallenge practices education as a public service for the public good, rather than focusing on testing. The CircularCityChallenge curricula aim to help transform the way we teach and learn sustainability.

create schools that give a voice to the next generation

“Business as usual” is not enough
We need a fundamental change in our attitude toward participation in urban planning and living together in society – if we want to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Although young people are among the most important stakeholders of urban spaces and infrastructure, they are still not taken into account in making plans for the development of their cities.
Research on education for sustainable development has shown that teaching sustainability and circularity is a challenge. It requires changing current disciplinary and subject-focused teaching towards systems thinking to understand the “bigger picture” of drivers, barriers, and solutions in societal, economic, and environmental aspects.

think of the schools providing the means for change

Curricula teaching to think flexibly across disciplines
CircularCityChallenge develops a competition-based approach to educating functional urban design in support of circular systems and the use of nature-based solutions. The project intends to design curricula for teenagers in different school types, resulting in an improved education on circularity.
The project will raise the awareness of sustainability by offering young people the opportunity to submit innovative ideas on circularity in an international challenge. Here, all competition submissions are required to address at least one of the Sustainable Development Goals. The challenge-based approach will also provide insights into the value systems and beliefs, and make sure the economic, ecological, and social perspectives are considered.

enable students realising ideas for a better tomorrow

Social, economic, and financial benefits to the community and beyond
The Challenge outcomes will be useful and practical, relevant for all involved stakeholders in urban development, and act as connectors between complex science and technology to hands-on actions. CircularCityChallenge bridges the gap between young people, their visionary ideas, and city decision-makers, industry, construction, government, infrastructure, and finance.
CircularCityChallenge provides youth with the means to be heard and get involved in key decisions for the future of their communities.
CircularCityChallenge is an opportunity for younger generations to be involved in society’s transition to a circular way of living. We encourage the participants to identify the problems related to climate change and social inequalities and, through project-based curricula, propose sustainable solutions to their local governments.
CircularCityChallenge practices education as a public service for the public good, rather than focusing on testing. The CircularCityChallenge curricula aim to help transform the way we teach and learn sustainability.

create schools that give a voice to the next generation

“Business as usual” is not enough
We need a fundamental change in our attitude toward participation in urban planning and living together in society – if we want to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Although young people are among the most important stakeholders of urban spaces and infrastructure, they are still not taken into account in making plans for the development of their cities.
Research on education for sustainable development has shown that teaching sustainability and circularity is a challenge. It requires changing current disciplinary and subject-focused teaching towards systems thinking to understand the “bigger picture” of drivers, barriers, and solutions in societal, economic, and environmental aspects.

think of the schools providing the means for change

Curricula teaching to think flexibly across disciplines
CircularCityChallenge develops a competition-based approach to educating functional urban design in support of circular systems and the use of nature-based solutions. The project intends to design curricula for teenagers in different school types, resulting in an improved education on circularity.
The project will raise the awareness of sustainability by offering young people the opportunity to submit innovative ideas on circularity in an international challenge. Here, all competition submissions are required to address at least one of the Sustainable Development Goals. The challenge-based approach will also provide insights into the value systems and beliefs, and make sure the economic, ecological, and social perspectives are considered.

enable students realising ideas for a better tomorrow

Social, economic, and financial benefits to the community and beyond
The Challenge outcomes will be useful and practical, relevant for all involved stakeholders in urban development, and act as connectors between complex science and technology to hands-on actions. CircularCityChallenge bridges the gap between young people, their visionary ideas, and city decision-makers, industry, construction, government, infrastructure, and finance.