Welcome to the Blue-Cloud Hackathon! 

The Blue-Cloud Hackathon is an open invitation to marine scientists & researchers, data scientists, ICT experts, innovators, students, and anyone who is 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.

Requirements

PROOF OF CONCEPT

By 8 February 2022, participants will be asked to deliver a “Proof of Concept” (POC) for innovative solutions that could be developed by, indicatively:

  • Combining Open data and data products made available in Blue-Cloud with new data (discovered and accessed using Blue-Cloud’s Data Discovery & Access Service or by any other means).
  • Making use of existing resources (data products, algorithms, maps, etc.) available in Virtual Labs to evolve new applications, building on these (or other) resources.
  • Using visualization techniques to better convey and communicate the results of Open data exploitation and analysis in support of decision-making processes. 

The POC must contain the following deliverables:

  • DELIVERABLE 1: A 1-page summary description of the solution
  • DELIVERABLE 2: A slide presentation (max 7 slides excluding the cover)
  • DELIVERABLE 3: (OPTIONAL): Code, a notebook or an application
  • DELIVERABLE 4: A 1-minute video pitch describing the solution

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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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Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

€60,000 in prizes

First prize

€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

€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

€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

Travel costs covered for up to 2 Team members to participate in Blue-Cloud Final Conference (final place and date to be confirmed)

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

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Judging Criteria

  • Fitness-for-purpose
    Relevance of the proposed solution to the challenges and objectives of the Blue-Cloud Hackathon – 10 points
  • Use of data
    Extent to which solution supports (re)using and/or combining different types of marine data and/or products to deliver innovative results – 10 points
  • Visualization
    Application of sound visualization techniques to deliver user-friendly analyses – 10 points
  • Maturity
    Degree of evolution of the proposed solution (concept > code > well-working and functional application) – 5 points
  • Roadmap
    Clear work plan laid out for further evolving the solution over the next 6 months – 5 points
  • Quality of video pitch
    5 points
  • Clear feedback on Blue-Cloud services
    5 points
  • Live Q&As
    The Jury will deliberate to assign UP TO AN ADDITIONAL 50 POINTS to each Team during a live Q&As session to the teams

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