Youth Challenge

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Online Education Center, THU, Minera Las Bambas S.A.

Institutional Proposition

Li Hongru

Digital Teacher Growth Program: Enhancing Teaching Capabilities of Rural Teachers

Many teachers in rural areas lack professional training and continuous development opportunities, with limited teaching resources and methods, which affects the quality of students' learning. This project aims to build an online teacher development project for rural teachers, including: online training courses, a teaching case sharing community, and training on digital teaching tools (such as smart classroom tools).

A sustainable system for teachers' professional development will be established through the combination of online courses and teacher communities.

Integrated Teaching Further Education Program for Young Teachers in Universities in Central and Western China

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Online Education Center, THU

Institutional Proposition

Li Hongru

Online Vocational Skills College: Helping Young People Acquire Digital Economy Skills

Many low-income young people lack access to vocational skills training, making it difficult for them to enter the digital economy and leading to employment challenges. This project aims to promote an online skills course system tailored for young people, including: digital marketing, basic programming, e-commerce operations, and AI tool application.

In collaboration with enterprises,  a vocational skills training model of "online courses + practical projects + employment connection" could be established.

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Online Education Center, THU

Institutional Proposition

Li Hongru

Agricultural Digital Classroom: Enhancing Production Capabilities of Small-Scale Farmers

Farmers in some rural areas lack modern agricultural knowledge, resulting in low production efficiency and difficulty in accessing higher-value agricultural industrial chains. This project explores sharing mobile learning courses for small-scale farmers, including: sustainable agricultural technologies, agricultural product processing and branding, and agricultural e-commerce sales.

By combining mobile learning with offline training, farmers' income-generating capabilities could be potentially improved.

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Online Education Center, THU

Institutional Proposition

Li Hongru

AI Learning Assistant: An Intelligent Learning Tutoring System for Disadvantaged Students

In low-income areas, students generally lack after-school tutoring resources, and their personal learning difficulties cannot be resolved in a timely manner, leading to a high dropout rate. Artificial intelligence technology has the potential to provide low-cost, large-scale and personalized learning tutoring support. This project aims to utilize AI learning assistants for students, supporting: homework tutoring, concept explanation, and learning path recommendation.

This project plans to carry out pilot projects in local schools to provide continuous personalized learning support for disadvantaged students under the support of AI.

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Institute for Accessibility Development, THU

Institutional Proposition

Jiao Yang

Low-Cost Braille Display Software Ecosystem——
A Sustainable Poverty Alleviation Tech Solution to Bridge the Digital Divide for Visually Impaired Groups in Latin America

Visually impaired communities in Latin America have long been constrained by high-priced braille displays, resulting in extremely low coverage of assistive technologies. Although breakthroughs have been made in low-cost hardware, the region lacks adapted curriculum content, teaching tools, and effectiveness evaluation systems. The vacuum in the software ecosystem has hindered on-the-ground implementation.

This project plans to build an AI education platform that delivers personalized and localized teaching content for children with limited resources. Leveraging open-source ecosystems, international funding, and local capacity building, it will effectively compensate for shortages in educational resources, empower teachers and students, and promote poverty reduction and educational equity.

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Institute for Accessibility Development, THU

Institutional Proposition

Accessible Health Information Intervention Framework for Women with Disabilities
Based on Informal Trust Networks

Poor women with disabilities in Latin America face overlapping disadvantages of disability, poverty, and gender inequality, making health information largely inaccessible to them. Existing digital interventions overlook informal trust networks, leading to low efficiency and weak sustainability in information transmission and referrals.

Health information will be converted into offline audio materials, illustrated cards, and operational manuals to empower community nodes to conduct preliminary screenings and referrals. This approach balances accessibility and replicability and is suitable for primary public health settings in Latin America.

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Institute for Accessibility Development, THU

Institutional Proposition

Shao Lei, Wen Xiaochu, Wang Yuqian

Building a "Community Digital Yellow Pages" and Trust Networks
for Vulnerable Groups in the Latin American Informal Economy

Workers in Latin America’s informal economy rely heavily on community services for their livelihoods, yet they commonly face a triple dilemma: being “invisible, untrusted, and unable to use” digital services. Existing digital tools feature high barriers to entry and fail to help vulnerable workers establish stable local customer bases and trust-based connections.

A low-threshold community digital yellow page will be developed. Using voice, images, peer endorsements, and lightweight deployment, it will improve visibility and customer acquisition efficiency. It has realistic potential for rapid piloting and scaling in grassroots communities across Latin America.

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Institute for Accessibility Development, THU

Institutional Proposition

Shao Lei, Wen Xiaochu, Wang Yuqian

Offline AI Teaching Assistant
A Universal Accessible Tech Solution for Inclusive Education Empowering Marginalized Teachers in Offline Regions

Network coverage in rural and marginalized areas of Latin America is insufficient, making cloud-based educational technologies difficult to implement. Students with disabilities have long lacked accessible learning resources, while teachers lack tools to convert textbooks into multi-modal and tiered materials, exacerbating educational exclusion.

This solution can run offline on low-end devices, helping teachers quickly generate teaching materials adapted to diverse learning needs. It improves the accessibility of inclusive education and classroom efficiency, with strong potential for widespread replication in offline regions of Latin America.

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Institute for Accessibility Development, THU

Institutional Proposition

Shao Lei, Wen Xiaochu, Wang Yuqian

Cross-Cultural Knowledge Productization Design
for Participatory Workshops in Inclusive Education

This project addresses the “policy-practice gap” in inclusive education in Latin America, where public schools lack implementable and replicable inclusive teaching tools and implementation frameworks. It will carry out cross-cultural knowledge productization of China’s well-proven model: Participatory Research and Design Workshop on Adolescent Disability Needs.
Through developing standardized educational toolkits, establishing youth-led PBL participation mechanisms, and designing a cross-cultural adaptation framework, the project will form an independently deployable and transferable system of participatory workshops for inclusive education. This will help Latin American teachers translate inclusive education concepts into regular teaching practices and solve problems of unequal resources and tool shortages.

This project holds significant value for cross-scenario and cross-regional practical transformation, upgrading unstructured local teaching experience into standardized, replicable, and scalable educational knowledge products.
With lightweight tools such as facilitator manuals, scenario cards, and analysis canvases, it can be rapidly adapted to the Latin American K-12 public school system and lower implementation barriers for frontline teachers.
A localization adaptation matrix will ensure cultural and curricular alignment, facilitating deployment in schools across different countries and resource conditions.
Through minimum viable testing and continuous iterative optimization, it will evolve into a multilingual inclusive education solution for global dissemination, providing a replicable Chinese model for international inclusive education practices.

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Tsinghua University Rural Revitalization Center

Institutional Proposition

Gao Jingya, Hu Yuanyuan

Technology-Enabled Innovation for Rural Stock Assets and Business Models
(Comprehensive Proposal)

Many underdeveloped rural areas face two common dilemmas: first, idle public spaces such as old auditoriums, abandoned public facilities, and traditional residences are dilapidated and underutilized; second, scattered cultural and natural resources lack effective carriers for revitalization. The “Rural Renewal” initiative encourages student teams to design sustainable, comprehensive solutions for revitalizing local economies by leveraging technological empowerment and business model innovation centered on rural idle spaces and underused assets.
The initiative supports exploration in three areas:
Spatial Renewal: Use innovative green building materials to conduct low-cost, low-intervention renovation and functional transformation of idle buildings, creating multi-purpose public spaces such as rural bookstores and agricultural product exhibition corridors.
Technology Integration: Introduce small-scale ecological treatment equipment, AI education and interactive experiences to improve operational efficiency and user experience.
Business Model Innovation: Transform renovated spaces into self-sustaining rural operation units, developing diversified businesses such as study tour programs and rural experiential activities.

The project plans to pilot at rural revitalization stations, providing a replicable Chinese model for revitalizing stock assets and fostering endogenous development in underdeveloped regions worldwide.

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Zhongshan (Beijing) Cultural Industry Co., Ltd.

Institutional Proposition

Zhang Wanwan, Qiu Haonan

AI Empowers High-Quality Cultural Tourism Development and Regional Poverty Alleviation

AI + Cultural Tourism: Explore the full-chain applications of AI in cultural tourism market research, cultural and creative product development, content creation, media operation and marketing, to support low-threshold, low-cost and high-efficiency development of cultural tourism IPs. Explore application scenarios and models of AI digital humans in the promotion of natural and cultural tourism resources, so as to boost tourism consumption.

Case of Digital Human Promotion:
“Liya (Mali)”, an AI virtual influencer of China Media Group (CMG), was appointed as Thailand Cultural Tourism Experience Officer.
https://city.news.cctv.com/2025/12/20/ARTI5qw7h1nTaMtaXNNzwkM3251220.shtml
Case of AI + Cultural Tourism & Creative Applications:
“AI Cultural and Creative Intelligent Entities” developed by Xinjiang Mihai Technology Co., Ltd.
http://www.altxw.com/yw/202603/t20260314_33487352.html

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Solidarity and Social Investment Fund

Institutional Proposition

 Innovation Unit: María José Durán, Eduardo Albornoz Lagos
Habitability Unit: Néstor Rodrigo Tapia Vera-Cruz, Rodrigo Hernández Allel
Families Program: Leslie Cornejo, Patricia Peters, Karin Volgger

Integration of Circular Economy in Vulnerable Communities to Generate Local Employment.

Design a community-based business model in which waste (such as plastics, textiles, or food) is transformed into marketable products. The research would examine how local cooperatives can generate sustainable income and reduce poverty while addressing environmental challenges.

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Solidarity and Social Investment Fund

Institutional Proposition

 Innovation Unit: María José Durán, Eduardo Albornoz Lagos
Habitability Unit: Néstor Rodrigo Tapia Vera-Cruz, Rodrigo Hernández Allel
Families Program: Leslie Cornejo, Patricia Peters, Karin Volgger

Using Design Thinking to Co-create Social Programs with Vulnerable Communities.

Create “social innovation labs” where communities, governments, and universities jointly design solutions to local challenges (such as employment, food security, and housing). The project would evaluate how participatory methodologies improve the effectiveness and legitimacy of social programs.

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Wise Responder
by SOPHIA Oxford

Institutional Proposition

Education as a Core Dimension of Poverty in Latin America: Addressing Access, Quality and Equity Gaps

Focusing on the Theme of Education and its subthemes (illiteracy, school dropout, school lag, learning outcomes, access to early childhood education, access to higher education), this project explores the central role of education in Latin American poverty. Education reflects both current deprivations and intergenerational disadvantage, with key indicators (illiteracy, dropout, age-grade distortion, etc.) revealing structural barriers to human capital formation and future income. It also highlights unequal access to early childhood and higher education across socioeconomic groups, and notes that even with expanded enrollment, significant learning quality deficits persist (e.g., only 43.5% of Brazilian primary students achieved minimum reading proficiency in 2023), making education a critical component of multidimensional poverty indices in the region.

The project has strong practical transformation potential by targeting the key education-related poverty gaps in Latin America. Its findings can be translated into targeted interventions: optimizing access to early childhood education and higher education for vulnerable groups, developing targeted programs to reduce illiteracy, school dropout and school lag, and improving learning quality (e.g., strengthening reading instruction in primary schools). The research outcomes can provide data support and policy recommendations for governments, educational institutions and international organizations, helping design scalable, context-adapted education strategies. Additionally, the focus on learning quality can guide the revision of multidimensional poverty indices, enabling more accurate identification of education-related deprivation and promoting long-term solutions to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty in Latin America.

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Wise Responder
by SOPHIA Oxford

Institutional Proposition

Health as a Fundamental Dimension of Poverty in Latin America: Addressing Disparities and Advancing Universal Health Coverage

Focusing on the Theme of Health and its subthemes (access to healthcare services, food and nutrition security, preventive healthcare, chronic disease care, disability support, prenatal care, adolescent pregnancy, infant mortality, vaccination, infectious disease prevention and treatment, and Universal Health Coverage), this project explores the pivotal role of health in Latin American poverty. Health directly impacts individuals’ capabilities, productivity, and overall well-being, with key indicators reflecting structural inequalities in health systems—such as unequal access to healthcare, preventive care, and continuous treatment for chronic conditions. Additionally, factors including food and nutrition insecurity, inadequate prenatal care, adolescent pregnancy, high infant mortality, insufficient vaccination coverage, and inadequate support for people with disabilities disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. These health-related variables are systematically integrated into multidimensional poverty indices in the region, capturing both immediate deprivations and long-term risks to human development. Data from 2023 shows severe food insecurity in many Latin American and Caribbean countries (e.g., Haiti 83.2%, Jamaica 56.4%), far exceeding the global average (28.3%), highlighting that poverty in the region is closely tied to basic physical well-being, with nutrition as a core health component of multidimensional poverty measures.

The project has strong practical transformation potential by targeting the key health-related poverty gaps in Latin America. Its findings can be translated into targeted, scalable interventions aligned with all subthemes: expanding access to basic healthcare services and preventive care, strengthening food and nutrition security initiatives to reduce food insecurity, improving prenatal care and adolescent pregnancy prevention programs, enhancing vaccination coverage and infectious disease (tropical diseases, tuberculosis, etc.) prevention and treatment systems, optimizing chronic disease care continuity, and advancing Universal Health Coverage (UHC) to reduce structural inequalities. The research outcomes can provide data-driven policy recommendations and practical guidance for governments, health institutions, and international organizations, helping design context-adapted health strategies for vulnerable populations. Additionally, the focus on health disparities can inform the refinement of multidimensional poverty indices, enabling more accurate identification of health-related deprivations, and supporting long-term efforts to improve health outcomes, reduce poverty, and promote equitable human development in Latin America.

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Wise Responder
by SOPHIA Oxford

Institutional Proposition

Labor as a Core Dimension of Poverty in Latin America: Addressing Labor Market Fragilities and Vulnerable Groups

Focusing on the Theme of Labor and its subthemes (informal employment with lack of pension contributions, long-term unemployment, child labor, NEET youth, discouraged workers, time-related underemployment), this project explores the pivotal role of labor conditions in Latin American poverty. Labor conditions directly determine income generation, economic security, and access to social protection. Key labor market indicators—including informal employment, long-term unemployment, and underemployment—reveal structural fragilities, while child labor, discouraged workers, and NEET youth highlight the exclusion of vulnerable groups from decent work opportunities. Notably, informal employment limits access to pensions, labor rights, and stable income, reinforcing cycles of vulnerability. Labor-related variables are systematically integrated into regional multidimensional poverty indices, capturing both current deprivation and future economic insecurity risks. Data from 2024 shows Latin America has high informal employment levels, with Brazil recording 36.5% of workers in informal jobs, meaning over one-third of the workforce lacks basic social and legal protections, emphasizing that regional poverty is closely tied to not only unemployment but also the quality and stability of employment.

This project has strong practical transformation potential, focusing on addressing labor market fragilities and protecting vulnerable groups in Latin America. The research findings can be translated into targeted, actionable interventions aligned with all subthemes: strengthening regulation of informal employment to expand pension coverage and protect labor rights; launching employment support programs for the long-term unemployed, discouraged workers, and NEET youth to enhance their employability; cracking down on child labor to eliminate its root causes; and improving working conditions for underemployed groups by optimizing working hours and income security. These interventions can provide data-driven policy recommendations for governments, labor departments, and international organizations, helping design context-adapted labor policies. Additionally, the research can guide the refinement of multidimensional poverty indices, ensuring labor indicators more accurately reflect employment quality and economic security, thereby supporting long-term efforts to reduce poverty and promote decent work in Latin America.

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Wise Responder
by SOPHIA Oxford

Institutional Proposition

Housing-Related Poverty in Latin America: Addressing Infrastructure and Living Standard Gaps

Focusing on the theme of Housing, this project covers 10 subthemes including access to water, access to electricity, basic sanitation, inadequate building materials (floors, walls, roofs), overcrowding, lack of internet access, cooking fuel, household assets, waste collection, and informality due to lack of property registration. It explores the close connection between housing conditions and poverty in Latin America: housing conditions not only reflect the material deprivation of the population, but also reflect the unequal access to essential infrastructure and public services. Key data shows that although some countries (such as Brazil and Argentina) have a certain proportion of safely managed sanitation (55% and 49% respectively), a large number of people still rely on basic or even unimproved sanitation, and the overall level is lower than the global benchmark (58%). These gaps directly affect people’s health, well-being and social inclusion, and housing-related indicators have become an important part of the multidimensional poverty index in the region.

This project has strong practical transformation value and clear implementation paths: it can formulate targeted interventions for each subtheme, including putting forward targeted improvement plans for infrastructure gaps such as water, electricity, sanitation and waste collection to promote the construction of basic public facilities and narrow regional and group gaps; formulating standardized renovation plans for housing quality issues such as inadequate building materials and overcrowding to guide the upgrading of dilapidated houses and improve living conditions; coordinating relevant departments to optimize resource allocation, expand public service coverage and reduce the informality of housing property rights to address the lack of household assets, internet access and formal property rights; providing data support and policy recommendations for governments, relevant institutions and international organizations based on existing data and practical needs to help formulate targeted poverty reduction policies and promote the improvement of housing conditions and social equity in Latin America; and continuously optimizing the multidimensional poverty index, incorporating housing-related indicators more scientifically to provide a basis for accurate poverty identification and targeted poverty reduction.

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Vale S.A.

Institutional Proposition

Amazon Sanitation for All & Health Poverty Alleviation Program

Focusing on the severe lack of toilets and basic sanitation among riverine communities, indigenous peoples and vulnerable urban peripheral groups in the Amazon Basin, this project addresses direct sewage discharge, water source contamination and high incidence of infectious diseases. It provides lowcost sanitation systems adapted to rainforest geographic conditions, including ecological toilets, decentralized wastewater treatment, safe drinking water supply and health education. The initiative blocks the transmission of waterborne diseases, improves public health and the ecological environment, and breaks the cycle of “sanitation deficiency – illness – poverty”.

The lightweight, lowcost technologies are suitable for the scattered layout of the rainforest, easy to deploy and replicable. They directly reduce the incidence of infectious diseases such as diarrhea and parasitic infections, and significantly cut medical expenses. The project protects river water quality and soil, and safeguards the health of the Amazon ecosystem. Studies show that full coverage could bring hundreds of billions of Reais in social benefits, with clear economic and health returns. Aligned with UN SDG 3 (Good Health), SDG 6 (Clean Water) and SDG 1 (No Poverty), the project enjoys high acceptance for international cooperation.

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Vale S.A.

Institutional Proposition

Amazon Clean Cooking Energy & Forest Conservation Program

In response to forest degradation, indoor air pollution and health risks caused by high reliance on firewood among lowincome Amazon households due to expensive cooking gas, this project offers sustainable clean energy alternatives. These include lowcost clean cooking equipment, small biomass energysaving devices and community energy sharing models, combined with forest protection and health education. The project reduces firewood consumption, lowers respiratory diseases, and mitigates rainforest edge damage and fire risks.

It directly targets the core dilemma of “expensive gas – firewood use – deforestation – illness”, with rigid demand and high public acceptance. The lightweight technologies feature low local operation and maintenance costs, suitable for largescale promotion in remote communities. The project delivers dual health and ecological benefits by protecting forest biodiversity and reducing indoor smoke hazards.
Aligned with climate justice, poverty alleviation and rainforest protection goals, it is eligible for support from international organizations and government programs. It can be integrated with rural industries and community governance to form a sustainable operation model.

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Faculty of Agronomy and Natural Systems
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Institutional Proposition

Profitability of Cultivating Native Bulbous Plants in Rural Areas

Context & Justification
1）Native Chilean bulbous plants have high ornamental value, but their economic role in family farming is poorly understood.
2）A rigorous profitability analysis is needed to compare cultivation costs versus revenue; diversifying with bulbs can “increase productivity, create employment and add value” (FAO), indicating potential to boost rural incomes.
Objectives
1）Evaluate the economic viability of integrating native bulb cultivation into smallholder farming.
2）Calculate detailed production costs and sales revenue projections for bulb crops under domestic and international price scenarios.
3）Model profitability metrics (e.g. NPV, IRR) in multiple scenarios and estimate social return (e.g. income gains, poverty reduction).

Role of students
Agronomy
1) Gather agronomic data (yields, inputs, management) via field trials to accurately estimate production costs.
2) Recommend improved cultivation practices (soil preparation, irrigation, fertilisation) to enhance crop productivity and resource-use eficiency.
Business
1) Conduct market analysis and financial modelling (discounted cash flow, NPV, IRR) to evaluate project profitability under varying price and volume scenarios.
2) Perform sensitivity analyses to quantify potential social impact (household income increase, poverty alleviation) of bulb cultivation.
Engineering
1) Develop predictive models (econometric and machine learning) to forecast changes in household income from bulb farming.
2) Implement computational tools (Python/R scripts) to automate scenario simulations and validate model performance with field data.

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Faculty of Agronomy and Natural Systems
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Institutional Proposition

Study of the Value Chain of Ornamental Bulbous Plants in Smallholder
Agriculture

Context & Justification
1）Analyse the full value chain of native ornamental bulbs, from on-farm production through distribution to final markets.
2）Optimising the value chain can increase farmers’ net incomes by reducing costs and improving market access, e.g. strengthening cooperatives and fair-trade certification boosts smallholders’ share of value.
Objectives
1）Map all stages of the bulbous value chain and identify key actors (farmers, intermediaries, traders, retailers) at each link.
2）Evaluate costs and margins at each stage to pinpoint ineficiencies (e.g. high post-harvest losses, excessive intermediaries).
3) Recommend improvements (e.g. producer cooperatives, value-added certification, streamlined logistics) to increase the percentage of final sale price received by farmers.

Role of students
Agronomy
1) Map on-farm production and post-harvest processes (planting, harvesting, storage) to identify technical bottlenecks and quality-loss points.
2) Recommend agronomic improvements (mechanisation, cold storage, pest management) to reduce waste and enhance product quality.
Business
1) Map value chain actors (smallholder producers, aggregators, exporters, retailers) and collect economic data (prices, margins, volumes) to analyse profit distribution.
2) Detect ineficiencies (e.g. disproportionately large trade margins, duplicated logistics) and quantify benefits of proposed improvements (cooperatives, certifications) on farmer incomes.
Engineering
1)Analyse and optimise logistical flows (transport routes, storage) using operations research (e.g. route-optimisation algorithms) to cut transportation costs and spoilage.
2)Design technical enhancements (standardised packaging, traceability systems) and perform cost–benefit analyses of these measures to improve chain eficiency and resilience.

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Faculty of Agronomy and Natural Systems
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Institutional Proposition

AI-Driven Exploration of Local and International Markets for Native Bulbous Plants

Context & Justification
1) Investigate demand for Chilean native bulb flowers in domestic and global markets through surveys and trade data analysis.
2) Aligning production with real demand prevents oversupply and stabilises rural incomes; opening high-value export markets diversifies income (ODS 8).
Objectives
1) Conduct local market surveys (florists, nurseries, consumers) to assess preferences, pricing, and demand for native bulb flowers.
2) Analyse international trade statistics to identify promising export destinations, volume trends, and regulatory barriers.
3) Forecast sales under different production and marketing scenarios (using data analysis/AI) and recommend market-entry strategies (certifications, trade fairs, e-commerce).

Role of students
Agronomy
1) Help design buyer surveys by specifying product attributes (preferred varieties, quality criteria, seasonality) to ensure agronomic feasibility.
2) Investigate export requirements (phytosanitary standards, packaging) and identify
3) high-potential native species for niche international markets.
Business
1) Lead local market research: execute surveys and statistical analysis of domestic demand (purchase frequency, willingness to pay, consumer segments).
2) Analyse export data and global trends to forecast demand and develop entry strategies (required certifications, key trade events, digital platforms) for new markets.
Engineering
1) Use data-mining and predictive analytics on large datasets (e.g. search trends, trade databases) to forecast global demand patterns for bulbous plants.
2) Develop visualisation tools (interactive maps, dashboards) to display market insights (international demand hotspots, price trends) and support strategic decisions.

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Minera Las Bambas S.A.

Institutional Proposition

Digital Literacy for Rural Women through Offline Solutions

Challenge:
Design an inclusive digital literacy model for women in rural areas within the Area of Influence (AID), leveraging appropriate offline digital resources to enhance their access to education, information, and economic opportunities.
Constraints:
Limited or no internet connectivity
Diverse cultural and social contexts that must be reflected in content design
Low baseline levels of literacy and digital skills
Need to incorporate geolocation or community-based targeting mechanisms
Alignment with formal or informal education systems
Inclusion of incentive or recognition mechanisms to encourage participation and retention

Expected Deliverables:
A comprehensive digital literacy program design (content, methodology, and delivery approach)
Proposal for offline-compatible tools or platforms (e.g., mobile-based, downloadable content)
Strategy for user engagement, retention, and recognition
Impact measurement framework (e.g., literacy improvement, education linkage, economic participation)

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Minera Las Bambas S.A.

Institutional Proposition

Data-Driven Decision-Making for Health Interventions in Vulnerable Populations

Challenge:
Design a data analysis framework to evaluate health interventions targeting vulnerable populations in rural areas, with the goal of strengthening evidence-based decision-making and improving the effectiveness of future interventions.
Context:
Existing health programs include home-based outreach and continuous accompaniment of vulnerable populations. Available data includes baseline information and two rounds of intermediate evaluations.
Constraints:
Diverse population groups requiring differentiated analysis approaches
Need to identify key variables that influence health outcomes
Limited data infrastructure in rural contexts
Requirement to generate actionable insights for decision-makers and stakeholders

Expected Deliverables:
A structured data analysis framework (including key variables and methodologies)
Identification of critical indicators to assess intervention effectiveness
A proposed model for segmenting different population groups
A clear and concise reporting format for communicating results to key stakeholders
Recommendations to improve the design and implementation of future health interventions

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Minera Las Bambas S.A.

Institutional Proposition

Digital Solutions for Post-Campaign Health Management in Rural Communities

Challenge:
Design a technology-based solution to support continuous health management for rural populations after medical campaigns, enabling sustained access to personalized health information and improving adherence to treatments.
Context:
Health campaigns provide services such as pediatrics, internal medicine, and gynecology. Patients are diagnosed and treated during these campaigns, and their information is shared with local health networks for follow-up. However, there is limited access to ongoing guidance and resources after the campaigns conclude.
Constraints:
Limited or intermittent internet connectivity (offline functionality required)
High reliance on mobile phones as the primary access device
Need for content tailored to different population groups and health conditions
Low levels of health literacy in some communities
Integration or alignment with existing local health systems

Expected Deliverables:
A proposed digital solution (e.g., mobile app, offline content platform, or hybrid system)
Design of user-centered features (e.g., educational videos, treatment tracking tools, reminders, or interactive content)
Strategy for segmentation and personalization of health information
Implementation roadmap (including adoption and scalability)
Metrics to evaluate health outcomes and user engagement

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Minera Las Bambas S.A.

Institutional Proposition

Telemedicine Solutions for Elderly Populations in Rural Areas

Challenge:
Design a telemedicine model that enables elderly populations in rural areas within the Area of Influence (AID) to access specialized medical services that are not locally available, ensuring accessibility, trust, and continuity of care.
Context:
Elderly populations in rural communities often need to travel to other regions to access specialized healthcare services that are unavailable locally. However, maintaining full-time specialized medical staff in these areas is not cost-effective due to low population density. Telemedicine offers a potential alternative, but must be adapted to local conditions and user needs.
Constraints:
Rural settings with limited infrastructure and connectivity
Low levels of digital literacy, especially among elderly populations
Need to build trust in remote healthcare services
Limited availability of specialized doctors
Requirement for cost-efficient and scalable solutions

Expected Deliverables:
A telemedicine service model (including patient flow, service delivery, and system architecture)
Proposed technology solution (platform, devices, or hybrid approach)
Strategy to build user trust and adoption among elderly populations
Integration approach with existing local health systems
Evaluation framework (access, quality of care, cost-effectiveness, user satisfaction)

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Minera Las Bambas S.A.

Institutional Proposition

Sustainable Livelihoods through Community-Based Forestry and Alternative Income Models

Challenge:
Design a sustainable and scalable model to transform the current forestry program into a long-term source of income for rural communities, promoting community empowerment, self-management, and reduced dependency on external support.
Context:
The forestry project is being implemented in 22 communities across the provinces of Cotabambas and Grau, aiming to reforest 488 hectares through the production of over 800,000 native and exotic seedlings between 2025 and 2026. The initiative also generates temporary employment for approximately 545 community members through nursery activities.
The project emerged as a response to reduced local employment opportunities following the construction phase of mining operations. While it currently provides short-term income, it remains highly dependent on external support and lacks long-term sustainability.
Additionally, alternative livelihood initiatives such as edible mushroom production have been introduced, but they are not yet sufficient to generate stable and scalable income for the broader community.
Constraints:
Rural Andean context with environmental and logistical challenges
Current dependence on external funding and project-driven employment
Limited market access and value chain development
Need to integrate environmental sustainability with economic viability
Requirement to ensure community ownership and long-term self-management

Expected Deliverables:
A sustainable income-generation model linked to forestry (e.g., timber, non-timber products, carbon credits, or ecosystem services)
Strategy to strengthen community organization, ownership, and self-management
Proposal for value chain development and market access
Exploration of complementary or alternative livelihood models (beyond forestry and current initiatives)
Implementation roadmap and impact evaluation framework (economic, social, and environmental)

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