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Solsticio

Connecting organisations, universities and students

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> for solsticioplatform · 2023
01· the project
> A project for Solsticio.

A thesis that solves a real challenge.

Solsticio, which started as U4Impact, connects organisations, universities and students: a company or an NGO sets a real challenge, and a student takes it on as a bachelor's or master's thesis with academic supervision. In 2023 we built the first version of its new platform.

It had three parts: a Strapi API on PostgreSQL with files on S3, a Next.js web with sign-in connected to that CMS, built on a commercial job-board template, and the AWS infrastructure written as code with Pulumi and deployed with GitHub Actions. The project began with social and environmental challenges; today Solsticio presents itself as an innovation system built on theses.

> cat /works/u4impact.md
TYPEPLATFORM
CLIENTSOLSTICIO
YEAR2023
built with
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Strapi
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • Pulumi
  • GitHub Actions
02· in numbers
500+> projects on Solsticio today
75+> universities
18,000> registered students
3> parts we built: API, web, infrastructure
03· how it works
01

Challenge

A company or an NGO sets a real challenge.

02

Connect

The platform connects it with universities and their students.

03

Work

A student takes it on as a bachelor's or master's thesis.

04

Supervise

The university supervises the work academically.

04· credits
for solsticio. WEB - API - INFRA. 2023
05· references

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