Business Simulation Suite

24th June 2025 | Book now

Take up the challenge and design a reuse system for takeaway food outlets in Portsmouth!

For this year's Changemaker Challenge, your task is to design a reuse system for takeaway food/drinks outlets in Portsmouth.

Reuse is a comprehensive system for the multiple rotations of specifically designed reusable packaging which remains within the ownership of the system and is loaned to the consumer. It is an essential pathway to improving plastic pollution in our environment, it reduces new plastic entering the economy by replacing single-use plastics with reusable items and supports the circulation of materials in the economy for longer.

Reuse represents a key opportunity to break free from the take-make-waste packaging economy. Reusable packaging can eliminate 80% of the climate impact of single-use packaging. One example is that 250 billion single-use coffee cups are used and discarded globally every year. A reuse system can help reduce this waste on a massive scale.  

Can you design a system to make waste packaging a thing of the past? Save your place at the Changemaker Challenge on 24 June 2025!

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At our Changemaker Challenge

get ready to:

  • solve real-world challenges 
  • engage with employers and external organisations 
  • meet new people 
  • enhance your CV and job applications 
  • develop a range of skills such as teamwork, presentation and innovation skills 
  • evidence commercial awareness 
  • create a lasting impact in the community

Discover Business and Law courses

Emma Winter: Quality of teaching is very high at the faculty of Business and Law and that's because we've got people who are teaching, who are super passionate about what they're teaching. The faculty of Business and Law covers lots of different subjects. We've got things like accounting, we've obviously got law, we've got business, management, leadership, risk management, human resource management, systems management, project management, anything that could be deemed a business subject or a law subject. There's evidence that says that those people who've got a postgraduate qualification are more likely to secure employment than those who just have an undergraduate qualification. We offer students lots of practical learning opportunities beyond their classroom teaching, so things like mentoring and things like networking programmes. There are lots of businesses here in Portsmouth. One of the things that that offers is opportunities to do live client work, and students are actually working with real businesses from the city. We've also got courses where students get involved in running advice clinics. We've got the legal advice clinic and the accountancy advice clinic. Actually being in a city and studying in a city offers those networking opportunities with industry, which is great for students. We are big on support here in the faculty of Business and Law. Everybody has a personal tutor. There's plenty of wellbeing support and we've also got academic skills support in the faculty of Business and Law. We really think it's important to support our postgraduate students because we recognise that some people come into postgraduate learning, having been in the workplace for a while. So all of our postgraduate programmes have a really comprehensive induction programme to allow people to ease into university studies again, and will feel really supported in what they're doing.

 

Matilda Ben-Agbo: I have learnt a lot whilst studying International Business and Management. I've also met people from diverse backgrounds and countries.

 

Dangsen Penan Nokshuwan: The course is designed to support and prepare anyone within the field to excel in different industries, and I believe that was exactly what I needed and it's been nothing but that so far in the course and I'm enjoying every bit of it.

Location and meeting point

We'll meet on the Northern Quarter of our campus, near Richmond Building, Portland St, ºÚÁϳԹÏPO1 3DE. Look out for our students in purple T-shirts who'll help direct you.

If you're arriving by coach or minibus, we recommend parking on Museum Road, ºÚÁϳԹÏwhich is just outside of Ravelin Sports Centre.

 

Changemaker Challenge Programme

Here's what's coming up at our Day in the Life of a University Student event*:

  • 9.30 - 10:00 - Arrival and networking
  • 10: 00 - 10:15 - Task set by The Revolutions Plastics Institute
  • 10:15 - 10:30- Entrepreneurs in Residence talk 1
  • 10:30 - 12:30 - Challenge begins!
  • 12:30 - 12:35 - Entrepreneurs in Residence talk 2
  • 12:35 - 12:55 - Working lunch and networking
  • 12:55 - 13:00 - Luke McGowan
  • 13:00 - 14:30 - Continuation of challenge
  • 14:40 - 15:20 - Presentations and feedback
  • 15:20 - 15:30 - Judging and awards
  • 15:30 - Wrap up and goodbye!

* Sessions may be subject to change