The Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge is a global competition that encourages students to design products and services to improve well-being across the lifespan. In its eighth year, the Challenge is focused on ideas inspired by the cultural shift that has occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic that support long, healthy, and happy lives for everyone.
This year’s contest challenges teams to create solutions for “After the Pandemic: Designing the Next Version of our World.”
The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing into sharper focus the cultural norms that guide us through life and is providing insights about what a new future might look like. The suddenness of this transformation is allowing us to examine daily practices, social norms, and institutions from perspectives that are rarely possible. For a short window of time, before new routines and practices replace familiar old ones, we will see with greater clarity how our lives might be improved, how current shifts could become enduring changes, what new norms might emerge, and how a new future might look.
This year, they are challenging students to design solutions for this new post-pandemic future, keeping in mind both how these solutions affect people throughout the lifespan, and how they can be designed in ways that are accessible to all. They should take into account what we are learning during the pandemic and how it is changing our lives.
WORTH
Cash prizes:
- 1st place: $10,000
- 2nd place: $5,000
- 3rd place: $2,000
- Finalists receive mentorship and personalized coaching from industry experts and researchers.
- Finalists receive airfare and hotel reimbursement (limited max value) for a student to attend the Finals at Stanford University to present their idea to investors and potential customers.
ELIGIBILITY
- The challenge is open to teams of 2-5 students enrolled during the 2020-2021 academic year, attending any accredited university or college globally.
- Each team must have at least one full-time student and if the team is selected as a Finalist, only students may present.
DEADLINE: December 10 2020
To apply and for more information visit here
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