Urban Health Case Challenge 2400-ZEWW827-OG

The focus this year is on the obesity in an urban environment. The obesity is one of main civilizational challenges of our times. According to WHO it is “often the result of environmental and societal changes associated with development and lack of supportive policies in sectors such as health, agriculture, transport, urban planning, environment, food processing, distribution, marketing, and education.” Together with your team, you will work on a solution to a given case question concerning one of these relations.
Bachelor, master's and PhD students from 4EU+'s partner universities and Uppsala University (Sweden), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) can participate in the challenge. Each partner university has 10 places. Out of these students we will create mixed teams of 4 people each. 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.
On-line lectures:
November 2, 2023, 17:00 - Information and organization meeting
November 15, 2023, 17:00 - Stepan Svacina, Charles University, „Introduction to obesity – causes, identification and treatment”
November 21, 2023, 17:00 - Daniela Lucini, University of Milano, "Connection between obesity, physical activity and lifestyle"
November 29, 2023, 17:00 - Simon Cook, Birmingham City University, “Geography of sport: running in cities”
December 5, 2023, 17:00 - Izabella Łęcka, University of Warsaw, “Physical activity as a vital element of the development of the concept of healthy cities”
The actual challenge will take place at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, from December 9th till December 12th. On December 9th the specific case question will be revealed, and the teams will join to work on their innovative solutions to the aforementioned challenges. Background materials on the specific question will be the starting point of students’ research projects. However, the case question will be wide enough to allow very different solutions from multiple approaches meet the realities of several cities in Europe.
The participants will also receive training in problem solving and pitching of results and solutions. The teams will also be trained in developing and concretising their ideas so they can present them convincingly at the finals.
On December 12th, the last day of the competition, the teams will pitch their solutions to an international jury of experts. All teams will receive feedback on their ideas. The winning team may be given the opportunity to put the proposed idea into practice.
If you want to participate in the challenge, please download the application form from: http://www.wne.uw.edu.pl/gkula/Urban Health Case Challenge 2023 application form.docx, fill it in and send it to uhcc2023@wne.uw.edu.pl by October 20th, 2023. On the basis of these forms we will choose 10 people who will represent our university in the Challenge.