EuroTeQ Collider

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.