Social Logistics Student Challenge

GBSN welcomes university students from various fields to form teams and engage in an international virtual contest to devise solutions for social logistics issues. The Social Logistics Challenge is designed to immerse learners in a digital environment that promotes teamwork, encourages collaboration, and stimulates innovation in addressing societal problems using logistics principles and technology. Upon finishing the competition, participants can earn an international micro-credential. Social logistics addresses the failures, gaps, and inequities in how goods, services, people, and information move through systems — and the consequences of those failures for communities. A social logistics problem is one where the root cause or primary leverage point of a social need is the design, operation, or accessibility of a logistics system. Teams are expected to engage directly with that system: diagnosing where and why it fails, for whom, and how it could be redesigned or improved.