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First selection WUR ReThink Waste Challenge
The jury of the WUR ReThink Waste Challenge an international student competition organised by Wageningen University & Research has selected 18 teams from 27 submissions to advance to the second round. The candidates must now prove that their idea is technically...
Nearly 200 students from over the world join the quest for a zero-waste future with the WUR ReThink Waste Challenge
On 18 January, students will kick off the ReThink Waste Challenge, an international student competition looking for the next step towards a sustainable world without waste organized by Wageningen University & Research. The competing student teams will come up w...
Clean aviation fuel from waste wood and tomato stems
The aviation sector must work hard to reduce CO2 emissions. One way to achieve this is to replace standard aviation fuel (kerosene) with sustainable fuel. Wageningen Food & Biobased Research is working with private sector partners on developing...
After the challenge - Winnie Akara
For nine months Winnie and her team SAHARA worked on their project PAWABOX and reached the Grand Finale, emerging 3rd out of the total 6 participants in the prototype division of the challenge. How does life go after the Re-Think Protein Challenge&...
Winners UGC: “After nine months of working together, friendships for life have been forged”
Their Masters graduation thesis mentor asked them if they were interested to participate in the Urban Greenhouse Challenge. And then, one day in September 2021, Eren Gözde Anil and Sarah Hoogenboom met with seven other students who responded to the call from t...