{"id":28599,"date":"2025-05-05T11:37:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T03:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/?post_type=futures-platform&#038;p=28599"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:32:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:32:43","slug":"expressions-of-interest-open-for-the-2025-sustainability-challenge","status":"publish","type":"futures-platform","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/futures-platform\/expressions-of-interest-open-for-the-2025-sustainability-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Expressions of Interest Open for the 2025 Sustainability Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>Sustainability Challenge<\/strong> is an industry-partnered, challenge-based, intensive unit designed to enhance student learning through an immersive, hands-on experience. Now entering its fourth year, the Sustainability Challenge centres around three critical global megatrends:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Climate Adaption and Resilience<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Resource Efficiency and Circularity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ecosystem Health and Wellbeing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This program offers Curtin University students the unique opportunity to engage directly with sustainability challenges that matter \u2014 working alongside industry partners, academic mentors, and fellow students from diverse disciplines to design real-world solutions. Participants will gain invaluable experience addressing some of today\u2019s most pressing environmental and social issues, from decarbonisation strategies to creating closed-loop systems and restoring natural ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By joining the Sustainability Challenge, students will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Build a powerful professional network<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gain hands-on, practical industry experience<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Earn <strong>25 credit points<\/strong> towards their Curtin University degree<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Dates:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Applications open:<\/strong> now<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Online pre-learning begins:<\/strong> 16 June<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Intensive face-to-face learning:<\/strong> starts 23 June<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Showcase event:<\/strong> 30 June<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Watch the 2024 Sustainability Challenge<\/strong> below to see how past participants tackled real-world sustainability problems and made an impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Curtin University Sustainability Challenge 2024\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B1yLWro2jcI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sustainability Challenge is an industry-partnered, challenge-based, intensive unit designed to enhance student learning through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":28606,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","wds_primary_category":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"class_list":["post-28599","futures-platform","type-futures-platform","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainable-futures"],"acf":false,"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/Digital-screen-SC25-draft-1000x500.png","author_meta":{"display_name":"289054e"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/futures-platform\/28599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/futures-platform"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/futures-platform"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/futures-platform\/28599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33952,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/futures-platform\/28599\/revisions\/33952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}