# Background

University students are facing uncertainty in terms of basic needs and amenities with the rise in housing, food and travel costs as a result of the rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. This challenge aims to take a closer look at the factors affecting accessibility to safe and affordable housing, food, and transport and allow students to explore possible solutions that could be implemented at scale within local and global contexts. 

# The Challenge

This challenge will focus on addressing one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - Sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11). It will give the students a chance to explore a wide variety of real-world issues - How do food and housing insecurity impact student resilience? How can we boost resilience in the student community? What does this look like for diverse student groups? What role can a university play in supporting resilience within its own community? This challenge seeks to come up with student-based solutions to these types of essential questions.

This 2-hour design sprint will guide students through a Hackathon-format to collaboratively identify potential solutions to addressing the challenge.

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Transcript of Records is an official document issued by your home university. It specifies the name of the institution, the academic programme you are enrolled in, the list of courses taken up until the current period, the exams or tests you passed, the grades and the credits you earned. 

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Motivation letter is a personal statement and it might include a brief introduction of yourself, explanation why are you interested in the learning opportunity you are applying to, any relevant experience or skills that you have, your goals and how this opportunity will help you achieve them, This document should not be more than 400 words.

Motivation Letter

Dublin City University

Food and Housing Insecurity in University Students

This Micro Module will give you tools and techniques in the field of digitalization of the industry (Industry 4.0), dealing especially with artificial intelligence. Learn data science underlying concepts, learn the most frequently used techniques for information and knowledge extraction from big data.  The course includes 18 contact hours and 81 working hours.  
  
Our methodology is focused into “learning by doing” in which lab work will involve solving problems with some level of complexity, such as handwritten digit recognition, emotion recognition from images, image compression, etc. Learners will work in teams and will be guided by an instructor. The implementation programming language is Python (expecting that the students have learned it before). The lab work is strengthened by a rich variety of projects: medical data such as skin cancer detection from dermoscopic images; web data, financial and marketing applications, etc. The students are encouraged to propose project topics, validated by the instructor.

University of Aveiro

Machine Learning

The UAB Language Service offers online courses in Spanish language organized in different levels to develop students’ linguistic and intercultural skills. 

The number of hours working on the platform vary by level (A1 and A2: 80-100 hours per level; B1and B2: 120-150 hours per level).

There is no final assessment. 

**LEARNING OUTCOMES**

- Communicative approach
- Works on all communicative skills
- Specially aimed at university level students
- Stepping-stone to other Romance languages

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Language Studies - Spanish

Online course

## **Content**

**Package 1 : Philosophy and Law**

Conceptual introduction to the ways in which knowledge is produced and disseminated without paying attention to gender, age, race, and class differences and sexual difference as regards relations among subjects and among bodies, and, thereby, becoming what might be understood as rigid, immaterial, and disaffected knowledge. The impact of producing and disseminating knowledge in these terms will be made clear by analyzing the so-called neutrality of the Law and its effects in gender equality policy making. 

**Package 2 : Psychology and Literature**

(1) Applied critical consideration of epistemic violence, that is, of how gender differences have an effect on subjects and bodies and how they have an effect in their well being depending on the role that gender is given in Psi Disciplines.

(2) Applied critical deconstruction of gender stereotypes and of prejudices that symbolically limit the imaginary field of subjects and bodies and tie them to the immateriality of heteronormativity.  

**Package 3: Anthropology and Pedagogy**

Attention will be payed to a specific challenge in order to (1) make clear how to take into account diversity, difference, and inequality by means of situating knowledge and of feminist methodologies and feminist data analysis and how to (2) validate and make epistemically relevant different kinds of agency by gendering it (including age, class, and race differences). 

## **Learning Outcomes**

1. To identify the key concepts of feminist thought in its diversity and the methodologies therefrom derived and in relation to the ways in which knowledge is produced and disseminated and its results applied.
2. To acquire a complex understanding of how to apply a gender and queer perspective in the analysis of societal challeges.
3. To obtain a complex understanding of the role of the body and the marks of gender, age, race, and class when facing the design, the production, and the execution of social projects.
4. To grasp the mechanisms of the binary, heteronormative, and colonial system of gender in the processes of subjectivation/normalization.
5. To consider the material and affective dimension of the production and dissemination of knowledge and to share its impact in the context of challenge-based learning.

Gender as a cross-cutting tool for understanding, diagnosing, and solving challenges

Self-paced open MOOC (3rd Edition)

This course seeks to improve the students' understanding of intercultural practices and policies in diverse cultures and institutional contexts. The course will focus on Cultural diversity. The aim of the course is to enable participants to reflect upon intercultural practices in diverse contexts. The course will be divided into the following themes:  
• Welfare systems as the context for discussing cultural diversity.  
• Transnationalism, migration and return migration and transnational lives.  
• Intercultural practices and reflection on welfare and social workers sensitizing activities.

Students will after having completed a five week study program, hand in an individual home exam.

**Description of learning methods and activities**

Lectures, seminars, group work and individual work adapted to different modes of study. All students are expected to read the syllabus and participate in group discussions and thereby develop analytical reflections in a productive environment with fellow students. The students will also go on field visit or collect information about relevant practices or/and welfare institutions. The students will themselves be in charge of the organization of field visits.

**Learning outcome**

***Knowledge:***

After completing the course, the students shall  
• Have advanced knowledge on intercultural practices in diverse contexts  
• Have an increased understanding of cultural diversity and transnationalism  

***Skills:***

After completing the course, the students shall be able to  
• Identify complexities within cultural diversity  
• Develop communication skills through the international classroom experience

***Competences:***  
After completing the course, the students shall be able to  
• Participate in a dialogue to improve awareness of and respect for cultural diversity  
• Development of reflective processes on how personal beliefs, values and knowledge influences welfare practices

University of Stavanger

Cultural Diversity

The course seeks to enable participants to reflect upon intercultural practices in diverse contexts

# The Challenge

Embark on an exciting learning journey, where we explore innovative and disruptive technologies, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and Challenge Based Learning (CBL). This unique learning experience will equip you with valuable knowledge and skills, enabling you to make a difference in today's fast-paced world.

Innovative and disruptive technologies are transforming industries and societies in unprecedented ways. Throughout this module, we will examine various technologies with the potential to disrupt and innovate, understanding that predicting their impact is not always straightforward.

The United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals encompass a wide range of critical issues, from climate action to poverty reduction. By studying these goals, you will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges our world faces and identify the specific goal you want to focus on during this module.

Challenge Based Learning is a powerful educational framework that encourages learning through problem-solving and real-world applications. As you navigate through this module, you will be guided in the CBL process, selecting your topic and area of focus. Previous students have found this approach to be engaging and rewarding, as it allows them to tailor their learning experience to their interests.

Don't worry if some of these topics are new to you - this module is designed to be a transformative learning experience. You will be supported every step of the way, and you might just discover something new and inspiring.

To learn more about the Sustainable Development Goals, visit: [https://sdgs.un.org/goals](https://sdgs.un.org/goals) For further information on Challenge Based Learning (Team work), check out: [https://www2.tuhh.de/zll/cbl-start/?lang=en](https://www2.tuhh.de/zll/cbl-start/?lang=en)

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