This is a great chance to step into the shoes of a strategist, work on an innovative and sustainable food solution, and develop skills that will set you apart in the job market. Choruba is more than just an ingredient: it’s a game-changer in the chocolate industry and your ideas could shape its success in the B2B market.

Whether you are passionate about technologies, marketing, sustainability, or entrepreneurship, this challenge will push your creativity, analytical skills, and strategic thinking to the next level. In addition, you will gain hands-on experience that can boost your career prospects.

In this challenge-based learning experience, students will:

- Analyze market opportunities: identify the most effective sales channels to introduce Choruba to confectionery manufacturers, food companies, and ingredient suppliers.
- Develop go-to-market strategies: define Choruba’s competitive positioning and entry strategies in the B2B chocolate sector.
- Create targeted communication plans: design marketing and digital strategies to engage businesses and convince them to adopt Choruba.
- Explore global potential: assess emerging trends and international opportunities in the chocolate and allergen-free ingredients market.

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University of Trento

Shaping the future of chocolate

Challenge the chocolate industry with Choruba - a sustainable, delicious, and allergen-free alternative to cocoa.

Energy and sustainability

Entrepreneurship, technology and innovation

This challenge introduces you to the essential steps of a frugal construction project, from initial design to hands-on implementation. It's structured in three parts:

- You'll begin with online lectures and readings covering key concepts such as bioclimatic design, eco-materials, and energy efficiency.
- Next, you’ll work in small groups to explore a specific topic in more depth, carrying out independent research and preparing to apply your findings.
- Finally, you’ll take part in a real-world building project on a public construction site near Rennes, where you’ll draft your own construction proposal and gain direct experience with materials and techniques.

Participation in all three phases is required. You’ll collaborate with students from INSA Rennes and the National School of Architecture in Brittany (ENSAB), working in multidisciplinary teams.

Throughout the module, you’ll be supported by faculty members with expertise in eco-design, bioclimatic architecture, sustainable urban planning, eco-materials, and home automation. During the on-site phase, you’ll also work alongside professionals from the construction industry, gaining valuable insights into how theory translates into practice.

Check out the following short video offering a recap on last year's iteration to find out more! [http://videos.insa-rennes.fr/video/0653-athabl-presentation-v2mp4/](http://videos.insa-rennes.fr/video/0653-athabl-presentation-v2mp4/)

INSA Group

Frugal Building: From Design to Construction

Take part in an eco-construction project in Brittany, France

Inter-personal skills

Energy has become an increasingly important factor in recent years. We have transitioned from a world where energy was cheap and readily available to one where it is becoming more difficult to obtain. Furthermore, **energy consumption has dramatic consequences for the environment,** as its use leads to an increase in CO2 concentration and subsequently, **global warming**. Understanding this factor and being able to manage it quantitatively is becoming increasingly necessary for the next generation.

In this course, we will be studying **transportation and analyzing it in terms of energy**. We will learn how to **calculate the impact of our transportation systems**in terms of energy, and explore the best strategies to reduce their impact.

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Energy in transportation

4th Edition

Transport and Mobility

Media and information literacy

**The Content** of this Micro-module is organized in 3 packages: 

- **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).

There are 3 assessment files, one for each package, that need to be completed in order to pass the course.

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

SELF-PACED OPEN MOOC (7TH EDITION)

Resilient communities

Critical and innovative thinking

Global citizenship

In a global context marked by deepening inequalities, armed conflicts, hate speech, and growing xenophobia, the human rights violations suffered by migrants, refugees, and displaced persons are increasingly alarming. These violations are particularly visible in the territories surrounding Europe’s borders—spaces that have come to be seen as zones of legal exception or "non-law." Public narratives around migration and asylum are often shaped by biased media portrayals and partial interpretations, undermining efforts to defend and uphold the rights of those affected.

Within a “Fortress Europe,” exclusion, xenophobia, and the criminalization of migration disproportionately affect migrants and racialized communities, leaving them in a state of heightened vulnerability.

**This course offers future professionals a strategic opportunity to sharpen their critical thinking skills in the face of rising racist and xenophobic discourses.**

Participants will explore the broader framework of the European Pact on Migration and Asylum, critically examining border externalization and securitization policies. The course will address documented human rights violations in various regions along Europe’s borders, while also highlighting resistance movements and grassroots efforts in defense of fundamental rights.

Moreover, it seeks to foster critical reflection, encourage open debate, and support the development of impactful advocacy and awareness-raising initiatives led by participants.

Fortress Europe: human rights violations against migrants and refugees at Europe's borders.

Understanding forced displacement and migration from a human rights perspective.

This thematic module focuses on visual accessibility in games and VR experiences. It briefly introduces basics of visual accessibility, and some of the needs of individuals with different visual needs. Next, the lecture provides two main discussion points; 1. how most games are visually inaccessible, and how some mainstream games are accidentally accessible to large extent, and, 2. how games, and especially VR, experiences can be very valuable and allow access to life experiences that visually impaired individuals can’t easily access such as diving, mountain climbing, or even being a sniper in an army.

Tampere University

Games, Gamification, Serious Games and Accessibility

Nonstop MOOC on methods and technologies for accessibility

The module introduces the ways MT is being used today, specifically when it is used for 'gisting', or achieving an understanding of a text that is in a language a person does not speak themselves. The module will then focus on the various proposals and projects focused on using MT to promote linguistic accessibility.

Linguistic Accessibility and Machine Translation

This thematic module covers the main principles of speech-based human-technology interaction, focusing on spoken interfaces which facilitate accessibility. Agent design for spoken interfaces. This includes both speech output (e.g., spoken prompts for people with visual disabilities) and speech input (e.g., speech control for physically disabled personnel). The students will also be introduced to different Voice Assistants and how they are being used in facilitating accessibility in the real-world.

Spoken Interfaces

The course covers the basic principles and methods of translating visual information into text. Both human-led methods and automatic technologies are introduced, including audio/video description, automatic image/video captioning and alternative texts.

Visuals to Text

The module will introduce the requirements and considerations for accessible entertainment, including going to a theater or museum, and watching a movie. As a part of this module, students will watch an accessible movie on YouTube and share their experiences in a learning diary reflecting on the many considerations and elements required to make a movie accessible to a large audience, including subtitling, audio descriptions, lighting etc.

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