🌿 #StudyTuesdays | Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is inviting students worldwide to join the ReWild the Future Challenge, a global competition to design solutions that bring biodiversity back to rural lands.

🌍 What the challenge is about: Teams combine science, technology and entrepreneurship, from AI mapping and drones to smart sensors and regenerative farming, to create practical, market-ready ideas that restore nature and make it pay.

💡 Ideas we think you could tackle:
📊 Low-cost ways to measure biodiversity
🌾 Helping farmers shift to regenerative systems while keeping their incomes
🪱 Restoring soil health and reducing pollution
🦋 Reconnecting fragmented rural habitats
🛰️ Precision agriculture that boosts both yields and biodiversity

🎁 What you get:
🧭 Mentoring from experts in business, academia and NGOs
🛠️ Workshops on innovation, teamwork and sustainability
🌐 A global network of like-minded students
🏆 Prizes of €7,000, €4,000 and €2,000 for the top three teams

📋 Strong fit if you:
✅ Are a bachelor's or master's student anywhere in the world
✅ Study environmental science, agriculture, forestry, biology, GIS, data science, business or any related field
✅ Can commit around 8 hours a week
👥 Teams need at least 2 members (3–8 recommended). Register on your own and you'll be matched with a team. Recent graduates and PhD students are welcome, as long as they make up no more than half the team.

💚 IMVELO Impact: Across Africa, farmland and biodiversity share the same ground. Ideas that make nature restoration profitable for farmers are exactly what the continent's rural landscapes need. This is a chance to design them, test them and take them home.

📍 Format: Mostly hybrid, hosted by WUR in the Netherlands
🗓️ Timeline: Kick-off January 2027, finals 15 June 2027
⏰ Registration deadline: 23 November 2026

🔗 Register here: https://www.rewildthefuture.nl/info

#StudyTuesdays #Biodiversity #RegenerativeAgriculture #StudentChallenge #NatureBasedSolutions #WeAreIMVELO #IMVELOAfrica

Disclaimer: IMVELO curates and shares publicly available opportunities, information, and resources for educational and informational purposes only. Unless expressly stated, IMVELO is not the organizer, sponsor, employer, funder, or owner of any third-party opportunity. Users are encouraged to verify all details directly with the originating organization before applying.