Let students come up with solutions for your organisation's challenges! We welcome cooperation with all types of organisations: startups, SMEs, multinationals, public institutions, government agencies, NGOs and cultural institutions.

What does it bring to your organisation?

• Connect with students from relevant courses
• Get valuable solutions to your challenge and save time
• Gain access to a talented and capable pool of students

To get an impression of a student challenge, please check out our Summer Sustainability Challenge in collaboration with energy cooperatives.

How does it work?

There are various ways to link the challenges of your organisation to students on our campus.

• The Amsterdam Living Case Lab (ALCL) is an initiative of the Faculty of Economics and Business. The Lab brings real-life business challenges, 'living cases', to the classrooms.
• The Master Challenge platform allows you to submit short-term and real-life challenges. During a challenge, a team of students will solve your real-life challenges.
• Computational Social Sciences is a bachelor program that requires students to continuously solve real-world challenges. Students get to work with authentic scenarios from your organization.
• Change Making. During this course, students and professionals work intensively together on a social problem where change is necessary, such as climate change and inequality of opportunity.

Customization?

We can organise a 'tailor-made' challenge through the REC Impact partner programme. Students then work intensively in teams of 4-5, from multiple disciplines, for a short period on complex issues from your organisation. We recruit the students and together we match the students to your challenges.