Blue-Cloud Hackathon
Hackathon Officially Over
Blue-Cloud Hackathon
🌊Welcome!
The Blue-Cloud Hackathon is an open invitation to marine scientists & researchers, data scientists, ICT experts, innovators, students, and anyone passionate about the Ocean to explore and test Blue-Cloud: A new, Open Science platform for the marine domain offering a wealth of data, analytical tools and computing power to support you in developing solutions for a safe, healthy, productive, predictive and transparent Ocean.
Participants will be challenged to develop applications that contribute to improving knowledge of marine ecosystems; support the transition to a greener, blue economy; advance Ocean literacy; and/or enhance international collaboration towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030.
🏄♀️ How to participate
Register for the hackathon
- Click on the “Register Now” button and fill in the form.
Get familiar with Blue-Cloud
- Follow a 3-week (optional) virtual ideation warm-up at your own pace and learn about Blue-Cloud’s services & tools. The warm-up will kick off on 17 January 2022 and its Agenda will be published soon. Stay tuned!
Form a team and propose your idea
- During the warm-up, you will be able to engage with other participants through this platform and you will be able to form and/or join a Team to shape the idea that you will work on during the hackathon.
Participate in the 3-day virtual hackathon
- Together with your Team and your Blue-cloud Mentors, build your idea to decode the Ocean!
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IMPORTANT: Please note that the Hackathon is intended for Teams in which at least one (or more) team members are familiar with coding and/or programming.
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For more information on the Hackathon , please click the “Info” tab above.
🏅Prizes
First prize:
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- €25,000 towards further evolving the solution
- 2 “innovation” coaching sessions to guide Team in evolving the solution
- Travel costs covered for up to 2 Team members to participate in Blue-Cloud Final Conference (final place and date to be confirmed)
Second prize:
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- €20,000 towards further evolving the solution
- 2 “innovation” coaching sessions to guide Team in evolving the solution
- Travel costs covered for up to 2 Team members to participate in Blue-Cloud Final Conference (final place and date to be confirmed)
Third prize:
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- €15,000 towards further evolving the solution
- 2 “innovation” coaching sessions to guide Team in evolving the solution
- Travel costs covered for up to 2 Team members to participate in Blue-Cloud Final Conference (final place and date to be confirmed)
Blue-Cloud “Blue Skies” Award (granted by “popular vote” of participants that join the “Pitch & Award Event”):
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- Travel costs covered for up to 2 Team members to participate in Blue-Cloud Final Conference (final place and date to be confirmed)
Please make sure that you read the Terms & Conditions that apply to the hackathon, including applicable conditions to Prizes.
Live Sessions
Gear up for the Blue Cloud Hackathon – Kick off live event
Hackathon live session 2 – Hands on! Navigating Blue Cloud
Blue Cloud
Hackathon Live Session 3 – What ocean challenges will the Blue-Cloud hackathon target?
Hackathon Live Session 4 – Matchmaking and team formation
Blue Cloud
Hackathon Live Session 5 – Gear up for the 3-day hackathon
Challenges
UNDERSTANDING THE OCEAN
Your challenge is to use at least one of the datasets, models and/or resources available in Blue-Cloud –either on its own or in combination with any other data from other sources that are useful to you- to develop tools that either challenge or improve our current knowledge on the presence.
UNDERSTANDING THE OCEAN
Your challenge is to map metabolic pathways of the marine microbiome that are relevant for the prediction of ecosystem services in the Atlantic Ocean, e.g. carbon fixation or the biosynthesis of lipids and metabolites.
FEEDING THE WORLD
Your challenge is to assess the potential impact that an event related to the presence of an aquaculture farm(s) could have on a marine protected area, and deliver potential environmental impact indicators in the short- (days), mid- (season) or long-term (multiple years).
FEEDING THE WORLD 2B
Your challenge is to assess potential risks that marine events (such as big waves, strong currents or severe winds) could pose for food production from an area (several tens of square meters) of your choice, in the short- (days), mid- (season) or long-term (multiple years).
PREDICTING ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS
Your challenge is to develop a tool to analyze the ecosystem status of a marine area of interest to you, at a defined point in time.
PREDICTING ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS 2B
Your challenge is to develop a tool that provides early warning of undesirable ecosystem changes with sufficient time to respond.
Winners Announcement
Blue-Cloud Hackathon – Pitching & Award Live Event
Agenda
24 November
✅ Registration
17 January
🔎Launch of the 3-week Virtual Ideation Warm-Up
30 January
🛑 Registrations & Teams closed
7 February
🌊 Launch of the 3-day Virtual Hackathon
7 February
🚩 Deliverable 1 // Page Summary
8 February
🚩 Deliverable 2 // Presentation
8 February
🚩 Deliverable 3 // Code/notebook/app
8 February
🚩 Deliverable 4 // Video Pitch
8 February
👩⚖️ Evaluation
9 February
🎉 Pitching & Award Live Event
PEOPLE IS WAITING TIGHT FOR YOUR EVENT TO BEGIN.
Book an appointment without pressure today and let’s start organizing your event today!
