December 6, 2019, by Lisa Chin

Call for participation: U21/PwC Innovation Challenge 2019/20

What is it?

The U21/PwC Innovation Challenge is a world-class opportunity for students to showcase their skills to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and its client base, via a short 3-minute video clip response to a pre-set challenge.

U21/PwC Competition winners will unlock and have access to unique training and professional development opportunities with one of the world’s leading employers.

Aims

The aims of the competition is to help research students:

  • develop their academic, critical thinking, presentation, and research communication skills

  • support them to distill and effectively explain their research or insight into contemporary, globally important work-related issues within a three-minute window, in a language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience

  • prepare for and produce a self-made 3-minute video clip addressing global work-related challenges

Target audience

This competition is open to all current registered postgraduate students (taught and research). For PGRs, only those who is yet to enter their thesis pending period will be allowed to participate.

Challenge question

How can universities help individuals gain a broader perspective on the long-term impact and consequences of their day-to-day actions on people, society and the environment? What types of jobs will an environmentally-sensitive economy need, and what is the best way to prepare students for them?

Prizes

UNM Round: Winner (RM1,500), 1st Runner Up (RM1,000) and 2nd Runner Up (RM500)

U21 Round: 7-day trip to Dubai, exclusive world-class training and an internship opportunity with PwC or one of their locally based clients.

Challenge Awareness sessions

To help you get started, we are running two Challenge Awareness sessions.

Session #1: Monday 9 December 2019

Session #2: Thursday 9 January 2020

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Get in touch

For more information, please send an email to Tissa.Chandesa@nottingham.edu.my.

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