PIONEERS
For schools.
Where new generations begin to discover that their knowledge, creativity and decisions can transform real problems.
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MARS CHALLENGE
Learning to decide.
A learning experience that turns knowledge into responsible action.
THE GRAND JAM 2026
The international final.
Getafe, Madrid · November 2026
Mars Challenge missions and projects come together here.
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CURRENT EDITION · 2027
The global Artificial Intelligence challenge.
The edition places human judgment at the centre of a world of artificial intelligence and planetary limits.
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THE MISSIONS
Four missions. Four communities. One shared challenge: expanding what we believe is possible.
ORIGINALS
For universities.
Multidisciplinary teams turn academic knowledge into judgment, decisions and solutions that no single discipline could build alone.
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ANCESTRAL
For Indigenous peoples.
Ancestral knowledge enters into dialogue with today’s challenges to imagine futures without losing territory, memory, identity or distinct ways of understanding the world.
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NO HUMAN B
For neurodivergence and human variability.
The Human Variability Project
A mission grounded in a radical idea: there is no single correct way to perceive, think, learn or create. Designing the future requires incorporating human variability from the outset.
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Understand the programme. Find your path.
Mars Challenge
What is Mars Challenge?
Discover Mars Challenge: experiential learning, multidisciplinary teams and human decision-making to turn knowledge into responsible action.
Find your placeFind your place
Your context changes the questions, responsibilities and next step. Choose the path that helps you decide.
ExperienceFrom a question to a decision you can explain.
Explore the eight stages of the experience: what happens, what is learned and what is preserved at each step.
Your context opens the next step.
Participation starts with your context. Explore a path for you, your team, institution or community.
Take partOne initiative. Two connected names.
The Mars Challenge
The Mars Challenge, also known historically as Reto Marte in Spanish, is a single international educational initiative. Both names identify the same community, programme and continuing editions.
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