ChallengED – Empowering
Students for Sustainable Change

ChallengED is an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership in Higher Education. Our mission is to bring together universities, students, and local actors to solve real-world sustainability challenges while fostering innovation, civic engagement, and entrepreneurship.

Through Challenge-Based Learning (CBL), students work in multidisciplinary teams to co-create solutions with direct impact on their communities — building the skills Europe needs for a greener, fairer future.

The ChallengED project adopts a Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) approach, where students engage with real-world challenges defined by local societal actors such as municipalities, NGOs, and community organizations. The methodology combines interdisciplinary teamwork, stakeholder interaction, and sustainability-oriented problem solving. Students work on authentic challenges related to environmental and societal issues, developing entrepreneurial, civic, and green skills. In parallel, the project develops a framework to assess the impact of CBL at multiple levels, including students, institutions, and society.