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#To25 BRAINstorm Challenge
The Organising Committee of the 2025 World University Games Winter has decided to launch an academic challenge to accompany the sports events. #To25 BRAINstorm is the first competition for the brande new “athletes of the mind” and will involve a thousand young people from all over the world, who will compete in 9 new “mind disciplines”, proposed by the universities of Piemonte (adding 3 disciplines proposed by students from all over the world), linked to the themes and challenges of the moment to which they will respond through projects and proposals. Climate change, energy sustainability and the ability to create social cohesion and new work models. A maximum of 25 teams of four people will participate in each of the disciplines, competing against each other in a battle of ideas.
Like their sport counterparts, there will be podiums and a final medal table, with the top three of every discipline receiving a cash prize and mentoring to achieve their projects. The Universiade goes beyond sport, as the president of the organising committee, Alessandro Ciro Sciretti, emphasised: “This is a great event that must live on many aspects that aim to promote Regione Piemonte and its university system, which is extraordinary and becomes even stronger when it gathers in networks”.
A working group, composed of the four universities of Piemonte (Università di Torino, Politecnico di Torino, Università di Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo, Università del Piemonte Orientale), in collaboration with the Torino 2025 OC, have selected the themes within which the individual challenges will be developed. The different mind disciplines will have a dedicated jury, which will be composed of expert members, selected and appointed by each university.
The national challenge starts now. From May 18, 2023, you will have the opportunity to select the challenge in which your team (which must be formed by 4 people – as indicated in the announcement – regularly enrolled at any Italian university and still in studying in January 2025) wishes to participate and upload your project online. By clicking on the icon of the chosen challenge, you will find the call for participation with all the details regarding the form to be given to your project and the prize money up for grabs. You will be able to upload your application on the portal until October 31. Afterwards, a team of experts will judge your work and a maximum of 5 projects per challenge will be awarded on January 13, 2024: it will be a great party!
Like their sport counterparts, there will be podiums and a final medal table, with the top three of every discipline receiving a cash prize and mentoring to achieve their projects. The Universiade goes beyond sport, as the president of the organising committee, Alessandro Ciro Sciretti, emphasised: “This is a great event that must live on many aspects that aim to promote Regione Piemonte and its university system, which is extraordinary and becomes even stronger when it gathers in networks”.
A working group, composed of the four universities of Piemonte (Università di Torino, Politecnico di Torino, Università di Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo, Università del Piemonte Orientale), in collaboration with the Torino 2025 OC, have selected the themes within which the individual challenges will be developed. The different mind disciplines will have a dedicated jury, which will be composed of expert members, selected and appointed by each university.
The national challenge starts now. From May 18, 2023, you will have the opportunity to select the challenge in which your team (which must be formed by 4 people – as indicated in the announcement – regularly enrolled at any Italian university and still in studying in January 2025) wishes to participate and upload your project online. By clicking on the icon of the chosen challenge, you will find the call for participation with all the details regarding the form to be given to your project and the prize money up for grabs. You will be able to upload your application on the portal until October 31. Afterwards, a team of experts will judge your work and a maximum of 5 projects per challenge will be awarded on January 13, 2024: it will be a great party!