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Synthetic biology holds the potential to solve a variety of problems. Every year, students from various degree programmes at Bielefeld University take on this challenge as part of the ‘International Genetically Engineered Machine’ (iGEM) competition. iGEM is a global synthetic biology competition in which up to 450 teams from around the world compete each year. The teams work on a synthetic biology project of their own choosing and present their results at the Grand Jamboree in Paris, where they are assessed and awarded prizes by a jury. In terms of content, they may seek solutions to current problems such as climate change, but they may also develop art projects or find biological solutions to computational problems.