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Applications for the Sandbox Residency and Student Challenge Cycle 2026 are now open.
Areté supports collaborations that involve research, incorporate artistic processes and interventions, and engage communities outside the academic and artistic worlds.
Sandbox Programs
Sandbox Programs
Areté offers groups of academics, artists, professionals, and students the financial resources and physical space to interact, exchange ideas, and work on projects that marry their interests towards a common goal.
Areté’s Sandbox Residency Grant supports innovative, collaborative initiatives that combine research, artistic processes, and community engagement beyond the academic setting. It provides the resources for experimentation, ideation, and incubation to explore new problem spaces and develop creative solutions to pressing society’s wicked problems. (More)
The Sandbox Student Challenge provides undergraduate students with funding to explore new problem spaces and develop innovative, interdisciplinary solutions. It encourages projects that integrate the arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences, management, and education with broader real-world contexts. (More)
A play on the word "collaboration", the Sandbox Co-Lab offers a co-working space and support for interdisciplinary groups with long-term, externally funded projects addressing urgent social and environmental issues. (More)
Activities and Events
Activities and Events
Opening Soon: The Sandbox Open House
Opening Soon: The Sandbox Open House
The Sandbox Open House highlights Areté’s thrust towards innovation, as well as its mission to showcase creativity at work in the arts and sciences. It allows the public at large to see the efforts of the different teams working under the Sandbox Programs in addressing important issues through collaboration and experimentation.
Applications Ongoing: Sandbox Student Challenge
Applications Ongoing: Sandbox Student Challenge
The Sandbox Student Challenge invites undergraduate and graduate Ateneans to turn bold ideas into reality. This initiative provides funding and mentorship to help students explore problem spaces with the potential to spark innovation and creative solutions. Open to all disciplines, the Challenge celebrates how the arts, sciences, management, social sciences, and education can intersect to make meaningful impact beyond the university.
Applications Ongoing: Sandbox Residency Grant
Applications Ongoing: Sandbox Residency Grant
The Sandbox Residency Grant supports innovative and collaborative initiatives that merge research, creativity, and community engagement. Open to projects that blend the arts and sciences, the grant provides funding and space for experimentation, ideation, and incubation—empowering teams to explore new problem spaces and develop human-centered solutions to complex societal challenges.
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