UNSW Sandbox
How does Sandbox work?
Sandbox brings students, academics, and practitioners together around real-world challenges. Each cohort works as a trilateral team to formulate the challenge, frame how to address it, and surface ideas worth pursuing. The work produces proofs-of-concepts that can move into further research, partnerships, and implementation, supported by the UNSW PRAxIS Lab (unsw.to/praxis). Students gain exposure to applied problem-solving and to career pathways they may not have previously considered. Partner organisations gain new ideas and analysis on the challenges they bring in. Previous Sandbox collaborations have continued as employment opportunities for students, research partnerships, and knowledge exchange engagements.
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Global Sandbox Alliance
The Global Sandbox Alliance is a network of universities running Sandbox Programs across disciplines and regions. Member institutions bring academics, partner organisations, and students together around real-world societal challenges. The Alliance helps new members develop and run their own Sandbox Program, with the resources, infrastructure, and cross-institutional support needed to establish it at their institution.
We are currently onboarding new Alliance members. Contact us to learn more about how your institution can join the network and establish its own Sandbox Program.
Through global collaboration, the Alliance enables academics, students, and partner organisations to work jointly on societal challenges that no single institution or region can address alone. Learn more about the Alliance here:
Our partners
Our collaboration extends across a diverse spectrum of businesses and community organisations. These include prominent entities in the technology, pharmaceutical, and consulting sectors, along with humanitarian organisations, government agencies, and insurance companies. We also partner with social enterprises and local community groups.
