Innovations
Airbus launches Fly Your Ideas global student challenge
For the fifth time, Airbus challenges students worldwide to innovate for the future of aviation by launching the Fly Your Ideas competition.
Airbus Fly Your Ideas is a unique global student competition designed to build mutually-beneficial collaborations and relationships between Airbus and the next generation of innovators. Every two years, students from across the globe are offered an opportunity to co-innovate with Airbus on real challenges facing the aviation industry. Participants gain valuable skills for their future careers including teamwork, project management and communication.
In the latest competition, students are being asked to submit solutions to genuine industry challenges that are either innovations for ‘Now’ or innovations for the ‘Future’; guaranteeing a cross-section of ideas that are both applicable today and deliver blue sky thinking for tomorrow.
Latin America’s students are no strangers to Fly Your Ideas, and teams from the region have consistently appeared in the final rounds of the competition. In 2011, Team Condor from Chile’s Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María won runner-up for their novel alternative design for an aerodynamic energy-recovering speed brake. In 2013, Team Levar from Brazil’s University of São Paulo won the Fly Your Ideas competition, placing first for their air-powered baggage handling concept. And in 2015 Team Retrolley also from Brazil’s University of São Paulo took second place for developing a trolley designed to tackled the issue of reducing waste in-flight and cutting down the time taken to collect and sort rubbish post-flight, speeding up airline operations particularly on short-haul routes.
Registration for Fly Your Ideas 2017 opened May 31 at www.airbus-fyi.com. Students can register as a team of three to five members and are encouraged to include team members from diverse nationalities, backgrounds and disciplines. The top 50 teams selected are given guidance from Airbus mentors to develop their idea into a detailed project. The final five teams are asked to present their projects to an expert jury at the final event in May 2017, where the winning team wins a prize of €30,000 and the runners up €15,000.
For more information please visit: www.airbus-fyi.com
For more information:
Lindsy Caballero
Communications Specialist, Latin America and the Caribbean
Lindsy.caballero@airbus.com