A group of three Radboud students came in second on Wednesday in the World's Challenge Challenge that took place in Canada. The competition dares students to find solutions for one of 17 global goals for sustainable development.

Other teams in the competition came from the United States and China, for example. The team from Nijmegen, Nila Patty, Raoul Luijten and Stef op den Kamp, came up with a solution to take on the problem of plastic waste: The Icepack Solution (the team pitches at 1.11.00). Among other things, they want to create an ice pack for fishermen to keep their fish cool with, so that they won’t have to bring plastic bags full of ice with them. These plastic bags often end up in the ocean. With this plan, they won 5000 Canadian dollars each, around 3300 euros, to work out this proposal. The first prize, 10.000 Canadian dollars per person, was won by a team from the Canadian Dalhousie University.

Before the Nijmegen competition, to establish which team was going to Canada, Raoul told Vox: ‘The idea we are entering the competition with is more like a strategy. We could start right now’. They now get the money to develop the plan and put it to use. They have already found partners from the Netherlands working in Nila’s father’s village ‘it was kind of incredible that a group was working in a similar way, at that place’, said Raoul.