An educational competition focused on impact

Organized every year at UniLaSalle, Uni4Challenge is an opportunity for students to take up a major challenge: to design an innovative, practical project that addresses one of the major issues of our time.

The competition is part of an ambitious pedagogical approach: learning by doing, as a team, while making a commitment to serving society.

This year's themes were:

• Sustainable cities and territories
• LaSallian commitment and social justice
• Biodiversity, food and health
• Water, soil and resources
• Climate and energy

Throughout the semester, students work in groups to come up with a realistic and meaningful solution, mobilizing skills such as :

• Collaborative project management
• Innovation management
• Business intelligence

The experience culminates in an oral presentation before a multi-disciplinary panel of judges, who assess the projects according to their originality, feasibility and potential impact.

Innovative, responsible and award-winning projects

This 2024-2025 edition saw a great diversity of ideas emerge: 74 projects were presented, and 10 were singled out as winners.

Here is an overview of the winning projects:

• Caillou'Tri: raising companies' awareness of electronic waste (D3E) recycling, with secure collection and recovery of components.
• GeoFresh: use geothermal energy to store potatoes, cutting energy bills by a factor of six.
• Crispy'Pluch: giving a second life to organic peelings by transforming them into nutritious chips.
• Pasti'Fresh: develop an intelligent film based on red cabbage to track the freshness of yoghurts.
• Résilience: create an application to support students' mental and nutritional well-being.
• TR'Care: facilitate the recycling of electronic equipment via a geolocation application.
• FertiConnect: connect producers of agricultural biowaste with composting platforms.
• PAIRfect: foster the integration of mobile students through a peer-to-peer mentoring system.
• Carto'Bouée: mapping the ocean's potential for the installation of hydroelectric buoys.

Each project illustrates the students' ability to translate a complex problem into a realistic and meaningful solution.

Learning differently, for sustainable action

Uni4Challenge is much more than a competition: it's a formative and civic experience, which places students in an active role as creators of solutions.

Through this program, UniLaSalle affirms its ambition: to train change agents, capable of innovating, cooperating and committing themselves to serving the general interest.

These winning projects demonstrate that when academic knowledge, creativity and commitment are combined, higher education becomes a genuine lever for transforming society.