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Many public spaces across the municipality are not being used to their full potential and do not currently deliver the level of social, community, cultural, and environmental value they could provide to residents. These areas may include plazas, parks, sidewalks, open lots, neighborhood gathering points, and shared civic spaces that remain underactivated, poorly designed, disconnected from daily needs, or lacking accessible programming. As a result, valuable urban assets are often overlooked instead of serving as vibrant places that strengthen quality of life and community connection. This challenge seeks practical, innovative, and scalable ideas to improve the use of municipal public spaces for a wide range of users, including families, children, young adults, seniors, people with disabilities, local businesses, and diverse community groups. The goal is to better understand why these spaces are underused, identify barriers to access and engagement, and develop solutions that make them more inviting, inclusive, safe, flexible, and relevant to residents’ everyday lives. Potential solutions may address physical design, temporary activations, digital tools, community-led programming, mobility and accessibility, maintenance models, safety, or partnerships between the municipality and local stakeholders. The challenge is especially important for a forward-looking city like FCT, where innovation, livability, and community development are central priorities. By reimagining underutilized public spaces, the city can create stronger neighborhoods, encourage social interaction, support local identity, and ensure that public assets generate greater public benefit for all residents. בדגש על מודלים בתכנון

First-year university students often face a sharp transition marked by academic pressure, social isolation, financial stress, relocation, and uncertainty about identity and belonging. For many, this period creates significant emotional distress at the exact moment when they are expected to perform, adapt, and build independence. Although mental health support is critically needed, a large share of first-year students are unable to access timely care. Barriers include long waiting lists, limited campus counseling capacity, cost, stigma, lack of awareness, scheduling conflicts, transportation challenges, and difficulty navigating fragmented support systems. This challenge focuses on how to better support first-year students who need mental health care but are not able to reach traditional treatment. The target population includes students in universities, colleges, and other higher education settings, especially those from underserved, low-income, international, rural, or otherwise vulnerable backgrounds who may face additional access barriers. The problem is not only clinical; it also affects retention, academic success, social connection, and long-term wellbeing. Future Of Health is seeking solutions that rethink how mental health support can be delivered earlier, more accessibly, and more equitably. This may include new care models, digital tools, peer-based support, outreach strategies, partnerships, or system-level approaches that reduce friction and expand access before students reach crisis point. The opportunity is important because early intervention during the first year can shape lifelong health trajectories, improve educational outcomes, and help institutions create more responsive and inclusive environments for student wellbeing.

A digital, data-driven public needs programming solution for local authorities that optimizes municipal assets used by residents over many years. The solution helps cities and municipalities plan, allocate, and adapt public facilities based on demographic trends, long-term demand, and evolving community needs. Its unique value lies in combining progressive planning, digital delivery, long-range simulation, and a dedicated proprietary modeling tool for smarter municipal decision-making.

ViVac’s product is a pre-clinical synthetic RNA-LNP platform for cancer immunotherapy designed for solid tumors such as liver and ovarian cancer. The platform safely mimics viral infection by delivering a full viral blueprint, including immunostimulators, into tumors using lipid nanoparticles rather than live virus. Its core promise is to combine the potency of oncolytic viral approaches with RNA-level safety: the RNA-LNP acts as a pro-drug, enables local single-cycle viral replication, and uses the poliovirus receptor CD155, which is overexpressed in many tumors, for tumor-specific targeting. The solution is intended to train the immune system against both viral and tumor antigens, activating intracellular and extracellular immune pathways to stimulate T-cells as well as B-cells and antibodies. This dual immune activation is positioned as a major differentiator versus checkpoint inhibitors, oncolytic viruses, and mRNA vaccines, which the company describes as limited by efficacy, safety, manufacturing complexity, or weak and short-lived responses. ViVac’s unique selling proposition is that it is the only platform presented here to combine intra- and extracellular immune activation with the scalability and safety profile of an RNA-LNP system, while aiming to generate amplified responses against both local and distant tumors.