CBI - Challenge Based Innovation

  • What it is

    An international programme supporting innovative ideas

  • Who it’s for

    Second and Single cycle students, researchers and businesses

  • What it’s for

    Developing ideas and facilitating creation of interdisciplinary teams

  • When

    Candidatures from July to September. Project from October to March

CBI is an international Open Innovation program aimed at generating new business ideas, implemented as part of IdeaSquare, CERN Geneva's Open Innovation Lab.

The program targets students from engineering, design, business, science, humanities, law and medicine in order to create mixed and interdisciplinary teams.

The project focuses on the challenges of contemporary society in the spirit of open innovation to create solutions that contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, through methodological approaches inspired by CERN technologies and developed through the mentorship of experts in the field.

 

Applications can be done starting from July 1st up to September 5th at 12.00 pm.

 

More info 

 

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  • Application form on SOL

    Click on the "Calls - Opportunities the University offers you" section and select "Open Innovation Program 2025/2026".
    Deadline Sep 5, 2025 at 12:00 p.m.

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