The Stanford Center on Longevity invites university students from around the world to compete to win the grand prize of $10,000 USD in the 2025-2026 Longevity Design Challenge, “Prevention by Design: Creating Healthy Lifestyles for Long Lives.”

Students are invited to design solutions that promote longer, healthier lives by emphasizing preventive healthcare approaches. Preventive health has become increasingly critical in the face of longer lives and rising chronic disease rates.

The Stanford Center on Longevity’s New Map of Life envisions a future where health is not just about treating illness but about building lifestyle habits, and environments conducive to those habits, that increase resilience and improve well-being for people of all ages and backgrounds.

The 2025-2026 Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge invites student designers to create solutions (e.g., physical products, digital solutions, community programs or services) that empower individuals to lead healthier, longer lives through lifestyle factors such as sleep, nutrition, physical activity, mental health, social relationships, and financial health, particularly with approaches that are accessible, engaging, and adaptable to diverse needs and life stages.

Students from all majors/fields of study are encouraged to submit a design. Designs can be products, programs, apps, or services. Examples of lifestyle or preventive health aspects that can be targeted include (but are not limited to): Sleep, Nutrition, Healthy eating, Physical Activity / Movement / Exercise, Social connection, Stress management / Mental health, Cognitive engagement, Financial health.

Eligibility: -Each team must consist of at least one full-time student from any accredited institution of higher education anywhere in the world (can be undergraduate or graduate). -Teams may have a total of up to 5 members and may include non-students. Students may also compete alone, as a team of 1. -Only students are allowed to present at the Finals.