Copernicus Hackathon is technology competition connecting coding and earth observation data from Copernicus system with business ideas.

Foralmost 48 hours teams come together to work on challenges with the goal to imagine and design innovative services and products that find every day uses for EO data.

Teams composed of 2-5 multidisciplinary participants will try to create a prototype with business potential that can be pitched in 7 minutes.

Each team will present its project to a jury during a 7-minute presentation which will take place at the end of the competition.  The solutions presented will be evaluated based on the following evaluation criteria:

• Relevance to the hackathon topic (25%)
• Innovation and originality of the project, value for the users, technical feasibility (50%)
• Quality of the team – technical and business expertise, understanding of the thematic area, commitment to the project (25%)
• Use of the earth observation data (elimination criterion)

Meeting the criteria will be evaluated by a jury consisting of representatives from the interested partners, investors, technologic experts, business experts and innovation infrastructure.

More information HERE.