About E-SUS Challenge!
The NUS Enterprise Sustainability (E-SUS) Challenge initiative serves as a dynamic platform for NUS students, faculty, and industry experts to ignite entrepreneurial spirit, share insights, and lean how to build innovative ventures with an impact!
Students can expect to learn about entrepreneurship and sustainability out of classroom setting, and you will have an opportunity to engage in hands-on projects that tackle real-world environmental and social issues!
Learn more of the upcoming events, hackathons and overseas immersion trips which you can take part and be involved in!
What to expect at E-SUS!
SustainPreneur 101
Fun and engaging workshops and events to teach and bring exposure to the basic 101s of entrepreneurship and sustainability!
Hack it till you make it!
Take part in the 24 hour SDG Open Hack - a hackathon with over $10,000 in grant money for winning teams and opportunity for subsidized overseas immersion trip post hack!
Startup Carnival !
Interact, network and fun at our Startup Carnival! Learn more about the student entrepreneurship clubs and startup initiatives and programmes in NUS and NUS Enterprise!
and more!
SustainPreneur 101s
Check out our lineup of activities to kickstart your impact entrepreneurial journey through our events and workshops!
These will help you build your ideas and competency for the SDG Open Hack!
Trivia Quizzes @ Student Life Fair 2024
14 - 16 Aug 2024
'Design Sustainable Futures' Starterclass and Makerthon
31 Aug 2024
Human for Impact Library
26 Aug 2024
SustainPreneurship Online Discovery
16 - 20 Sep 2024
Hackin’ Week!
Singapore 2024
Sign up for the 24 hour SDG Open Hack Singapore that is happening from 14 - 15 September; an electrifying hackathon in partnership with Global Green Economic Foundation (GGEF), United Nations for Training and Research (UNITAR), Open Geneva, the University of Geneva, and NUS! Have an impactful solution for sustainability? Pitch it at the SDG Open Hack@NUS! No coding required!
YOU GET:
CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION
NETWORKING with students from different schools or faculties
Turn your IDEAS INTO IMPACT SOLUTIONS
EXCLUSIVE MENTORSHIP from INDUSTRY EXPERTS
A chance to win life-changing EXPERIENTIAL REWARDS
From 14 Aug onwards
19 Sep 2024
SDG Open Hack @ NUS Grand Finals
Registration + team formation
14-15 Sep 2024
24 Hour SDG Open Hack @ NUS 2024
Stand a chance to win
$30,000 worth of prizes
Fast track to startup funding
Incubation @
THE HANGAR
Overseas Immersion Trip in Dec 2024
Post-Hackathon
Student Entrepreneurship Networking Event
NUS Enterprise Startup Carnival
Youth Overseas Immersion Trips
Oct 2024
Oct 2024
Dec 2024 - Jan 2024
Keep a lookout for the exciting events and programmes post hackathon above! From networking events, startup carnival and overseas immersion trips, get ready for the exchanging of ideas and forging new collaborations with fellow student entrepreneurs. Stay tuned for more details and get ready to be inspired!
SustainPreneur 101
Sustainability + Entrepreneurship
Online Discovery
16-20 September 2024, Online
Can you name three sources of renewable energy?
Do you know the difference between IP and IPO?
- Join us for a daily dose of SustainPreneurship knowledge
- Learn, test yourself and win!
Take our daily quiz
Up to $1,000 in prizes
SustainPreneur 101
31 August, Saturday, 9.30am - 5.30pm
'Design Sustainable Futures' Starterclass and Makerthon
Run by GUILD Asia, this workshop hopes to allow participants to apply Futures Thinking and Human-Centred Design to develop impactful innovation to solve tomorrow's sustainability challenges today. Expect to learn how to build for impact from our highly-trained instructors and create sustainable solutions at our makerthon!
Top team will walk away with $1,000 worth of prizes!
SustainPreneur 101s
23 August, Friday, 6pm to 8pm
Humans for Impact Library
Meet the innovative minds behind The HANGAR's startups—Crafty Crafty, Creo Works, matchWise, and vitaliTEA. 🌿✨ This is your chance to dive into the world of social entrepreneurship and learn how these founders address social issues through entrepreneurship.
📅 Date: 23 August 2024 (Friday)
📍 Venue: RC4 Seminar Rooms 1 & 2
🕘 Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Exclusive event for Student Entrepreneurship Community club members only.
About ISI
Innovation with Societal Impact (ISI) is a cross-division team in NUS Enterprise empowering Innovation & Enterprise efforts which address societal impact issues, encompassing Environmental, Social and Sustainability-related concerns.
ISI's approach:
- Educate - Raise awareness, inspire new ideas and develop capabilities
- Engage – Build a community and scale the impact entrepreneurship ecosystem
- Empower - Support entrepreneurs and innovators creating societal impact.
About THE HANGAR
THE HANGAR is the early-stage incubator under NUS Enterprise and BLOCK71 Group. Join THE HANGAR community to tap into our extensive ecosystem comprising of current and alumni incubatees, and even entrepreneurs from all around the globe with our BLOCK71 Singapore and Global Community!
Some of our startup and more!
