# Master Challenge

> Master Challenge is a platform that helps universities run challenge-based education at scale by connecting lecturers, student teams and external partners (companies and organizations) around real-world challenges that are solved as part of university courses.

## What it is
- A SaaS platform for universities to organize challenge-based education end-to-end.
- A challenge recruitment service that helps lecturers find external partners and source real-world challenges.
- A talent pool that connects students with career opportunities at partner companies.

## Who it's for
- **University lecturers** running master/bachelor courses who want to integrate real-life challenges from companies into their curriculum.
- **Companies and organizations** that want fresh perspectives on real business problems and early access to student talent.
- **Master and bachelor students** who want to work on real challenges, build a portfolio, and connect with future employers.

## Key pages
- [Home](https://masterchallenge.me/): What Master Challenge is and the high-level value for universities, students and partners.
- [The platform](https://masterchallenge.me/platform): Features — challenge spaces, embeddable widgets, team formation, team-challenge matching, evaluations.
- [Submit a challenge](https://masterchallenge.me/submit-a-challenge): How companies and organizations submit a real-life challenge to a student team.
- [Challenge recruitment service](https://masterchallenge.me/challenge-recruitment): Done-for-you or co-managed recruitment of external partners and challenges for university courses.
- [Success stories](https://masterchallenge.me/success-stories): Real outcomes from collaborations between student teams and industry partners.
- [For companies](https://masterchallenge.me/for-companies): Why companies should work with student teams via Master Challenge.
- [For lecturers](https://masterchallenge.me/for-lecturers): How lecturers run challenge-based education with the platform.
- [For students](https://masterchallenge.me/for-students): The Master Challenge talent pool — career opportunities, workshops, extracurricular challenges.
- [About us](https://masterchallenge.me/about-us): The team and mission behind Master Challenge.
- [Blogs](https://masterchallenge.me/blogs): Articles and ideas on challenge-based education and university–industry collaboration.

## Active challenge spaces (machine-readable)
The full text of every currently active challenge space (title, organisation, subject, summary, description, dates, application details) is available as static HTML for AI assistants and search engines here:
- [All active challenge spaces](https://umshoggarcjclzvujjzd.supabase.co/functions/v1/prerender-space): Index page linking to each individual space's full-text HTML. Each space page carries a canonical link back to https://masterchallenge.me/challenge-space?spaceId=...
- Individual space format: `https://umshoggarcjclzvujjzd.supabase.co/functions/v1/prerender-space?spaceId={uuid}`

## Blog posts
- [The biggest challenge of challenge-based learning for educators](https://masterchallenge.me/blogs/the-biggest-challenge-of-challenge-based-learning-for-educators): Why organising challenge-based learning takes so much lecturer time, and how a matching platform fixes it.
- [Why using multiple real-life challenges in a university course is a good idea](https://masterchallenge.me/blogs/why-using-multiple-real-life-challenges-in-a-university-course-is-a-good-idea): The case for giving each student team a unique company challenge instead of one shared case.
- [Many Names, One Idea: Why “Challenge-Based Learning” Goes by So Many Different Labels](https://masterchallenge.me/blogs/many-names-one-idea-why-challenge-based-learning-goes-by-so-many-different-labels): A tour of the many labels (CBL, PBE, PjBL, Experiential Learning, Community Service Learning, challenge-engaged learning) used by universities like Utrecht, Maastricht, VU, Wageningen, TU/e, DCU and Aalborg — and the shared structure underneath them all.

## Partner universities (selection)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Tilburg University, Utrecht University, Leiden University, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht.

## Contact
- Website: https://masterchallenge.me
- Phone: +31 6 22090699 (Bram Kuijken)