Wanted: the best idea to make our society more sustainable

Cesaer Best Idea - Are you a student or PhD candidate with a brilliant idea for how science and technology can help making our society more sustainable? Then CESAERs Best Idea 2021 Competition is your chance to build a team and make your idea become reality - all with the potential to win a cash prize of €20,000. CESAER is a network and lobby organization of over 50 leading universities of science and technology across Europe. Inspired by the power of interdisciplinary collaboration and the creativity of young people, and to celebrate her thirthieth birthday, CESAER now launches her Best Idea 2021 Competition. This competition wants to address the contribution of science and technology to ecological, social and economic sustainability by linking Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and emerging technologies. Sustainability is considered in its broadest sense: ideas can be related to any one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Rector Rik Van de Walle: "Ghent University strongly believes in interdisciplinary and international collaboration, both in research and education. That's why I accepted the presidency of CESAER, and that's why I want to encourage our students to participate in the Best Idea competition.