Grand Challenges will be replaced by the 'Challenges Online' programme for 2020
COVID-19 update
Due to COVID-19, Grand Challenges will not be able to go ahead in its usual face to face format. Instead, we have launched an online programme similar to Grand Challenges called Challenges Online, running 22nd-26th June 2020. Please go to the Challenges Online website for more information and to sign up.
Grand Challenges will return in its usual format in 2021.
Grand Challenges gives you the opportunity to meet like-minded people and develop a wide range of transferable skills including teamwork and public speaking. You also gain a broader understanding of global challenges, and have the potential to make a real world impact.
In 2019, we welcomed
- NHS mental health leads for the South West
- A senior BBC reporter
- Experts from the Met Office
- The Head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office
"The skills I have taken away from Grand Challenges are at the top of my CV"
"Our work from Grand Challenges is leading to changes being made at the University"
"I met so many new people and we quickly became friends through working together"