The Sustainability Hackathon will be the second open innovation action aimed at community and business activation to create innovative applications that contribute through technology and digitization to the goals of sustainability, education and entrepreneurship. The Sustainability Hackathon will take place on April 15-16-17! Applications will be open until April 14, 2022!

The Open Day will be held remotely using video conferencing tools on Tuesday 22 March 2022 at 17:00.

Participate

We invite any interested individual, team or company to participate in the competition:

By developing innovative methodologies and applications that address these issues (participants – contestants).I WANT TO PARTICIPATE

By proposing issues or challenges related to the digital transformation of Sustainability that need a solution and by developing an application to tackle them (public submission of proposals – consultation).I WANT TO PROPOSE

Supporting this effort (mentors, sponsors, supporters, public organizations, companies, collective entities).I WANT TO SUPPORT

OBJECTIVES

Sustainability Hackathon has the following main objectives:

CHALLENGES

The following are indicative thematic areas and examples, which will be enriched during the marathon.

Sustainability

• Information / support and business and civil society mobilization actions for sustainable development
• Digital tools for recording actions to achieve the Global Sustainability Goals
• Creating a Digital Toolbox for Sustainable Development
• Data visualization for better understanding of the problem, utilization of open data
• Utilization of digital tools to achieve citizens’ access to information and decision-making processes
• Impact of the Covid19 pandemic on the circular economy

Education

• Citizen education applications for good environmental protection practices
• Creating solutions for smart educational programs for the cyclical use of resources within companies and public bodies
• Development of experiential educational programs through digital tools
• Utilization of Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR / AR) technologies for the exchange of good practices
• Utilization of digital tools for the organization of mentoring processes between citizens, businesses and public bodies
• Creating city lab applications on 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)

Entrepreneurship

• Resource reuse and waste management
• Materials, supply chain, environmental footprint of products, actions and actions
• New Business Models
• Models for organizing local markets
• Utilization of digital tools for obtaining reliable information on creating long-term value sustainable practices in organizations for the business and investment community
• Investment models to support sustainable farming practices

*The following indicative thematic units are co-formulated in accordance with the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).