Valeo has announced improvements to its third annual Valeo Innovation Challenge. The contest will now feature a new category and be extended to students in every discipline.
Students from all walks of life – particularly those enrolled in social sciences, design or business courses – may now take part thanks to the creation of a new category, ‘new ways of using cars’, which is aimed at bringing disruptive ideas to light.
The Valeo Innovation Challenge asks students to come up with an innovation or idea that will make cars smarter, cleaner, more fun and more intuitive by 2030.
Students wishing to develop a product or a system are invited to register in the technical innovation category, whereas those with an innovative idea, application or business model for the car of the future can take part via the new ways of using cars category.
Valeo is aiming to build on its open innovation strategy by strengthening ties across the academic world. The disruptive innovations that will shape the car of tomorrow could take the form of new technologies as well as innovative ideas associated with new ways of using cars.
Students have until January 15, 2016 to sign up on the contest’s dedicated website, form a team of two to five people and submit the first draft of their project. After reviewing the projects, Valeo will announce the 24 teams shortlisted for the semi-finals (12 for each category) on March 18, 2016.
