Get involved with the Global Sustainability Challenge
The Global Sustainability Challenge is a yearly global student competition founded at Stanford University that brings together university students from 6 continents and 90+ countries to develop and present real solutions to energy, climate, and resilience challenges. Supported by the world's leading institutes, industry experts, and impact-oriented organizations.
Student ambassadors
Represent GSC on your campus, connect with the global ambassador cohort, and help bring the challenge to students who haven't found it yet.
Explore ambassador roleExpert Network
Support student teams with domain expertise, feedback, mentorship, judging, or a mix of roles across the challenge cycle.
Explore expert networkInstitutional partners
Join Stanford University, Zhejiang University, IIT Bombay, HKUST, TUM, and others as key institutional partners of the challenge.
Explore partner optionsStudents and teams
Pre-register for the 2026-27 Global Sustainability Challenge, start creating your team, and be first to know when team registration opens.
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There's a role for every kind of changemaker
From campus representatives who help students find GSC, to domain experts who guide teams toward stronger solutions — these roles sit at the heart of how the challenge works.
Student ambassadors
Bring the Challenge to your campus
Ambassadors are student volunteers who believe sustainability starts with who gets access to the challenge. They take ownership of that access at their university — and become part of a global cohort doing the same.
Expert network
Mentor teams through the course of the Challenge and beyond
At GSC, sustainability practitioners, researchers, scientists, entrepreneurs, operators, and policy leaders help students turn early ideas into practical solutions. They help mentoring student teams, running workshops, judging, and more.
Institutional partners
Join leading universities and organizations making the Challenge possible
GSC partners have hosted Regional Finals, funded student travel, provided mentorship, and helped bring the challenge to new regions. If your university or organization wants to do the same, we would love to hear from you.
Share your interest
Please fill out the form below to share your interest in partnering with the Global Sustainability Challenge. A member of our team will follow up to discuss partnership opportunities.
Participants
Form teams, build solutions, and take them to a global stage.
Join thousands of students across the planet building a lifelong commitment to sustainability. At GSC, students form cross-disciplinary teams, find collaborators and institutional partners, and turn ideas into pilots, community projects, and early-stage ventures. What starts in one season often becomes long-term work, long-term relationships, and a long-term path to impact.
Pre-register for GSC 2026-27
Be first to know when registration opens, and get sustainability insights, tools, and team-building ideas.