In November 2020, the 4EU+ Alliance and the School of Global Health at University of Copenhagen will be holding a new case competition for bachelor and master’s students as well as doctoral candidates: the Urban Health Case Challenge. This year’s case will focus on the resilience of society during a pandemic.

The topic of urban community resilience in times of COVID-19 takes its point of departure in the community responses to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Together with a local team, participants will work on a solution to a given case question that will be revealed on the case challenge’s first day, 23^rd November. Ten students from the University of Warsaw, divided into two teams, will compete with teams from other universities to offer the best solution to this question. Each team will present its solution in front of an expert jury at a pitching session on the last day of the case challenge, 27^th November.

The competition has been created to strengthen the university students’ competencies and commitment to solving real-world problems through practical, theoretical, innovative and interdisciplinary learning. In addition, the participants get the opportunity to engage in a highly topical case from the real world and work in an innovative and interdisciplinary manner.

The competition will take place from 23^rd to 27^th November 2020. It will be a mixed-format with both local and physical activities in each city as well as online aggregated sessions. It is mandatory to participate in the live sessions on 23^rd and 27^th November, but in-between the participants will dispose of their own time. During the competition, the teams will be trained in developing and concretizing their ideas so they can present them convincingly at the finals.

More information about the Urban Health Case Challenge can be found on the School of Global Health website >>