EU supports Global Hack against the coronavirus: three days to go – sign up now!
Date: 06/04/20
There are three days to go until the Global Hack – an online hackathon designed to share and rapidly develop ideas for urgently needed solutions in the current coronavirus pandemic – backed by the European Union and the EU4Digital initiative.
The European Commission will provide up to €75,000 to the Global Hack for prize money to the winning teams. The total prize pool for the best ideas is €100,000. The hackathon is organised by Accelerate Estonia, Garage48, and Guaana with the support of Devpost.
The EU will also provide input to the government-related challenges to be hacked in the area of start-ups, small businesses and eHealth, as well as coaching in bringing viable solutions where they are needed.
Experts in their fields, scientists, tech enthusiasts, business leaders, project managers, marketing experts, designers, and innovators from the Eastern partner countries and across the world are all invited to take part in the Global Hack, which will take place completely online between 9 and 12 April.
The Global Hack aims to partner people from around the world with one another to exchange ideas, know-how and best practices to come up with creative and nimble solutions. Through bringing together world-class mentors and talented teams, solutions can be built for a better tomorrow. The hackathon will showcase emerging solutions that can demonstrate how digital innovations can be leveraged to connect local neighbourhoods and help people facing the greatest vulnerabilities.
The online event has already drawn attention across the globe – covered by Forbes, Silicon Republic and CNN among others – and brought on board a fleet of world-class mentors, such as Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, former EstonianPresident Toomas Hendrik Ilves, and public health specialist and neuro-technologist Khaliya. Anyone can assemble a team of 6-12 people who are dedicated to an idea. The team leader must register the idea and name through Guaana. During the hackathon, participants will develop their best and brightest ideas to address the ongoing socio-economic crisis and to support recovery in the aftermath. Through the reddit page, anyone can post ideas for the feedback of other users, find partners and find the rules for the submission of challenges.
We use cookies on this site to improve your website experience, to enhance site navigation and analyse site usage. By clicking “Accept all cookies” you consent to our use of cookies.
You can find out more about which cookies we are using or adjust your cookie settings in the Cookies policy.
Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies, which are essential to the functioning of the website. These cookies also which help us measure the website’s performance and improve your experience, as well as remembering any settings you might have selected.
If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.
Advertising/targeting cookies
Advertising/targeting cookies, which we use to track user activity and sessions so that we can deliver a more personalized service, and (in the case of advertising cookies) which are set by the third parties with whom we execute advertising campaigns and allow us to provide advertisements relevant to you. These are optional cookies and users can choose to opt out at any moment.