Foundational Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the foundational level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- DesignFoundationalNew
Sustainable Fashion Brand Awareness Campaign
You are a freelance marketing consultant hired by EcoThreads. Design a 1-month campaign with a budget of €20,000. The goal is to achieve 1 million impressions and 5,000 new emai…
- Guerrilla Marketing
- Social Media Strategy
- Influencer Outreach
Open coursework - CodeFoundationalNew
Classify Retail Product Photos for an E-Commerce Marketplace
Use a publicly-available product-image dataset (e.g., Fashion-MNIST extended, or a Kaggle e-commerce subset of around 10k images across 12 categories). Fine-tune a small pretrai…
- Image Classification
- Transfer Learning
- Pytorch
Open coursework 
StrategyFoundationalNewStrategy Memo on AI in University Assessments
You receive: the current academic-integrity policy, faculty survey data from 320 academic staff, a student survey of 1,800 students, and 3 case studies of how peer universities …
- Education Policy
- Ai Strategy
- Assessment Design
AI in Education and Learning Analytics- DesignFoundationalNew
Digital Transformation for a Legacy Luxury Hotel
Design a digital strategy for the hotel's guest experience. Constraints: no changes to the physical property; budget of €500,000; must integrate with existing PMS. Success means…
- Customer Journey Mapping
- Digital Strategy
- Luxury Service Design
Luxury Brand Management Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- CodeFoundationalNew
Swap a List Scan for a Min-Heap in the Dispatcher
Working only from the materials provided, your job is to make the courier-selection logic faster and to show, with evidence, that it actually got faster. First, read the de-iden…
- Heap Data Structure
- Complexity Analysis
- Python
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Competitive SEO Audit for a Munich Craft Beer E-Shop
Perform a technical SEO audit using free tools (Google Search Console data provided, Screaming Frog export attached). Analyze site architecture, page speed, mobile usability, me…
- Online Marketing
- Web Development
- Data Analytics
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Materiality Assessment for a Toronto Craft Brewery
Using the simulated financial statements provided (income statement, balance sheet, and notes), select an appropriate benchmark (e.g., revenue, profit before tax, total assets) …
- Materiality Assessment
- Audit Planning
- Financial Analysis
Auditing and Assurance - StrategyFoundationalNew
ESG Strategy for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
Develop a one-page ESG strategy dashboard with 5-7 key performance indicators (KPIs) relevant to a SaaS company, including data collection methods and a 6-month implementation p…
- ESG Reporting
- Sustainability Metrics
- Stakeholder Engagement
Sustainability and Sustainable Business - Browse challenges
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Marketing Analyst
Plan and measure campaigns that grow the business. Funnel analytics, attribution, segmentation, and the rigorous measurement that lets marketing defend its budget at the leadership table.
- AnalysisFoundationalNew
Design a Go/No-Go CVP Model for EcoWear Activewear
Design a CVP decision model and proposal for EcoWear's biodegradable activewear line using only the EcoWear Activewear Cost & Assumptions Brief and the Comparable Activewear SKU…
- Cvp Analysis
- Break Even Analysis
- Sensitivity Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyFoundationalNew
Investigate How Circular-Fashion Ventures Build Their Launch Teams
Your task is to run a field investigation and then design the team. First, observe: read the EcoThreads Circular Pilot Dossier to map the four functions, their leads, and their …
- Team Building
- Cross Functional Collaboration
- Conflict Resolution
Open coursework - CodeFoundationalNew
Optimizing Inventory for a Barcelona D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are given a CSV file with 6 months of daily sales data for 20 SKUs, including product name, date, units sold, and current stock level. Your task is to write a Python program…
- Python
- Data Cleaning
- Data Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Bookkeeping Reset for a Lisbon Specialty Coffee Roaster
Work only from the transaction log provided as a CSV (the 'Café Atlântico quarterly transaction log'). For each of the roughly 60 to 80 transactions, write a double-entry journa…
- Double Entry Bookkeeping
- Journal Entries
- Trial Balance
Open coursework Build a verifiable portfolio.
Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
Why Ewance
- DesignFoundationalNew
Lean Launch Plan for a Sustainable Fashion App
Your task is to create a lean launch plan document. Define your target customer segment, design a customer discovery interview guide, specify MVP features (no coding required, j…
- Lean Startup
- Customer Discovery
- Mvp Design
Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation
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Accept the one that fits your goals.
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