Wege Prize is an annual competition that ignites game-changing solutions for the future by inspiring college/university students around the world to collaborate across institutional, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries to redesign the way economies work. Participants contend for $65,000 (USD) in total cash prizes, all while learning—and helping to show the world—what the future of problem solving looks like. Deadline: 8 October 2023.
College/university students from around the world apply as transdisciplinary teams of five, representing different academic disciplines, institutions, and degree levels. Teams advance through up to four distinct phases, receiving feedback from experts and professionals in related fields along the way. Each team must leverage its transdisciplinary makeup to collaboratively design and propose a product, service, business model, or other solution to a wicked problem of their choosing that can help us transition from a linear economic model to a circular economic model.
Read the description of past winners here.
Wege Prize is organized by Kendall College of Art and Design’s Wege Center for Sustainable Design with support from the Wege Foundation, both based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Center for Intercultural Dialogue 