Collider Spring 2024 edition

The Collider is open to registration to all EuroTeQ partners via the Course Catalogue. We believe there is great added value in bringing learners together from different countries and institutions. The structure of the Collider will allow one to form and participate in interdisciplinary, international teams in a hybrid setting.

Together you will work on open-ended challenge-based projects centered around the theme: “Enhance Connections!”. This experience will enable you to contribute to sustainable futures, while improving your capabilities to, amongst others: offer an innovative and entrepreneurial solution that is not only technical, address uncertainty and acting while being out of your comfort zone.

At the end of the Collider all participants will pitch their results and have a chance to join the EuroTeQaThon hosted at Ecole Polytechnique. The ultimate goal of these events is to collectively develop solutions and actionable opportunities to create sustainable futures.

Collider Spring 2024

Reusing and organizing the use of residual flows

Bike Repair

The Bike Kitchen aims to reuse residual flows such as tires, scrap metal, and chains to develop new products. This challenge investigates how students can offer solutions to The Bike Kitchen that promote circularity and cooperation between people, product and the environment.

AI to disrupt the Body Repair Industry

Car Repair

The journey stakeholders in the body repair industry go through is time-consuming and inefficient. New technologies are being used to enhance the connection between demand and supply. This challenge offered by ABS will investigate how AI can help drive down costs and enhance user experience.

Warm Technology for People with Dementia

Dementia

In this challenge offered by TU/e “Expertise Centre Dementia & Technology”, students are encouraged to address ethical challenges of emerging technologies such as AI, SARs, or VR to expand the notion of warm technology and increase the impact on quality of life of people with dementia.

The Recyclable Inhaler

Pharmaceutics

What would the pMDI (pressurized metered dose inhaler) of the future look like. One that is built of recycled material and can be recycled? Can you create a cradle to grave pMDI. In this challenge offered by Chiesi, students are offered the stage to find creative solutions.

Shedding light on sustainability with photonic integrated circuits

Photonics

By bringing together photonics, electronics and quantum technology EHCI offers this challenge to students who would like to dwell into these areas to create solutions for a sustainable world and to understand what are the needs of the market that can be fulfilled with this technology. This will be followed by a focus on one of the needs and generating a feasible solution.

Unite with Light

Public Lighting

In this challenge, Team IGNITE from TU/e Intelligent Lighting Institute (ILI) invites students to explore what lighting can do for a specific community in a particular place for extended periods. Depending on the background of your team you can focus on the effect of lighting on social cohesion, the interaction of people with light, the design, the technical aspects and/or the business case.

Breaking international barriers for rail transport

Train Travel

Setting up an international train network in Europe is challenging due to technical and economic barriers. This challenge offered by Hybrid Maglev Railways (HMR) is about finding a faster alternative to regular trains, and a more sustainable alternative to planes. The project dives into various hurdles, aiming to enhance international connections and travel for European passengers.

It is no longer possible to register for the Collider at TU/e for Spring 2024. Registrations for the next Collider open in November 2024.

Save the date!

Mark your calendars: the EuroTeQaThon will take place on June 8-10 at École Polytechnique, Paris. You can find more information and a teaser video of the previous EuroTeQaThon on the EuroTeQ website here.