The two-week-long innovation challenge will consist of three parts: Prep Cube, OutCube and InCube. During PrepCube and OutCube, the selected international participants will meet both virtually and in-person in Switzerland to train and bond with each other. They will then join their assigned team at one of the cube locations around the world to live and work together for five days inside a glass-walled container to solve a challenge set by the corporate partner. At the end of the five days, the teams will pitch their solution to a jury and live audience at the ETH Entrepreneur Club’s annual signature Launch event in Zurich.

Past editions of the InCube Challenge have featured teams from Switzerland, the US, Singapore and South Africa. For this first edition in China, Swissnex has brought together the ETH Zurich student organizers, corporate partner Bühler China and university partner Jiangnan University to collaborate on the initiative, united by a common goal of fostering entrepreneurial talent in young people across and beyond borders. A final celebratory event will be held at the Swissnex office in Shanghai on October 14 with the organizers and network partners.