Please register your team before December 1st 2020, 23:59 hrs
(If there are irreconcilable preference overlaps, we will implement the principle of "First Come, First Served")
- Have you ever been fascinated by interdisciplinary team effort solving societal challenges?
- Do you or do you know any Master’s students and/or PhD candidates who want to team up and make new accomplishments in Corona times?
If so, the brand new competition CCSS Complexaton has some amazing challenges in store, with a €1000 cash prize for the winning team! There will be generous prizes for runners-up as well.
CCSS Complexaton webpage
Conditions:
- The eligible participant should be a registered Master's student or a PhD candidate at a Dutch University/research institute.
- The leader of a team should be a registered Master's student or a PhD candidate at Utrecht University.
- Maximum 4 participants per team.
- Each participant can only participate in one team.
Timeline and Procedure:
- November 16th 2020: Kickoff meeting (YouTube recording) (public, online)
- December 1st 2020 (23:59 hrs): Registration deadline for teams
- December 15th 2020: Start of the work after assigning teams to preferred challenges
- February (1-5) 2021: Mid-term reporting and feedback (public, online)
- March 14th 2021 (23:59 hrs): Deadline of submitting final reports
- April (12-16) 2021: Final presentations and issue the prizes (public, online)
Meet & Match:
Please join the Slack workspace (ccss-complexaton.slack.com) and meet your potential teammates!
Registration:
Please register your team before December 1st 2020, 23:59 hrs. (If there are irreconcilable preference overlaps, we will implement the principle of "First Come, First Served").
Challenges:
- Challenge 1: Pathways for affordable, sustainable and healthy diets
Dr. Gideon Kruseman, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center - Challenge 2: Diversity and perturbation relationship in spatially implicit high dimensional models
Dr. Rubén Díaz Sierra, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Dr. Mara Baudena, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development - Challenge 3: Predicting the metabolism of bacteria from on incomplete genome data
Dr. Bas E. Dutilh, Institute of Biodynamics and Biocomplexity - Challenge 4: Regional Embodied Knowledge Flows
Dr. Carla Do Rosario Costa, School of Economics - Challenge 5: Trawling through the rubbish: Data mining of the scientific literature on marine plastic pollution
Dr. Erik van Sebille, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht - Challenge 6: Networks and chemical evolution of oil paintings
Dr. Yuliia Orlova, Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences - Challenge 7: "Free-riding" vs. "Free-driving" How Geoengineering might shape international climate negotiation
Dr. Claudia Wieners, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht