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European Commission, in close cooperation with the Member States of the European Union, organised a hackathon #EUvsVirus to develop innovative solutions to coronavirus-related challenges. The Hackathon took place from Friday, April 24 to Sunday, April 26, 2020. Rijeka Development Agency Porin is an official partner of this initiative.

The General Purpose of Hackathon match and connect innovators, partners and users across Europe and bring them together to tackle the immediate problems of the crisis in various technological fields. During the 48-hour hackathon period, the competitors jointly developed innovative solutions for high-tech and hardware and software solutions using biotechnology, digital technology, social sciences and other domains in the field of innovation.

The development of prototypes and solutions is envisaged in 6 areas (divided into 37 challenges): Health and life, Business continuity, Social and political cohesion, Work and distance education, Digital finance and more. All 37 challenges can be found at the link  https://euvsvirus.org/challenges/.  The winning projects will be published on the European Innovation Council (EIC Community Platform) and thus become accessible to end-users (e.g. hospitals, schools, ministries), investors, foundations and will focus on the current funding options of the European Commission. This will be the starting point for longer cooperation between the European Commission and the ecosystem of innovators, producers and drivers across Europe on the corona crisis.

Director of the Rijeka Development Agency Porin, Dario Zorić has been elected by the European Commission as the official ambassador EUvsHackathon virus.

Today the EUvsVirus Award Ceremony The winners were selected from 2,160 great projects with more than 23,000 people working on them. The hackathon jury identified the best solutions to support the European and global coronavirus epidemic, in 37 categories A total of 117 out of 2,160 solutions were awarded: https://euvsvirus.org/results/. Overall more than €100,000 They will be shared with the winners for their hard work and new solutions with the greatest potential to save lives and bring life closer to the global pandemic.

The competition brought together more than 22,000 participants from across Europe and beyond. Croatia was represented by 281 participants. Project ViraTrace is the winner in the Health and Life category for the ‘Real-time Communication and Prevention’ challenge, and a representative of Croatia is also present in the project team. Project BirdBox Croatian companies Poslovna inteligencija ranked among the four best teams in the category Digital Finance for the challenge “Support to the identification of financial deficiencies”. Other winning projects whose teams are made up of representatives of Croatia are: IFFA (Integrated Fast Financial Aid) in the Digital Finance category for the ‘Accelerated access to financial support’ challenge, arts4refugees in the Digital Finance category for the “Support to the digitally excluded” challenge, and Transparency in the category Digital finance for the “Other” challenge.

After EUvsVirus hackathon, all winners will be invited to Matchathon will be held from 22nd to 25th May on the new EIC COVID platform. This online event will help connect award-winning teams with end-users, such as hospitals, and provide access to investors, corporations, foundations and other funding opportunities from across the EU.

The employees of Porin do their daily project, advisory and administrative work throughout the working day. While some employees work in the afternoon, night and weekends (as mentors) on solutions to the problems that arose during the coronavirus (hackathons: VersusVirus – 48h online hackathon i EUvsVirus), 2nd Part of 3D Print Employees Visits the Community more specifically for the initiative ’#Stay home because #StudentsAnointing‘ organised from Student Union of the University of Rijeka .

So far 1,100 visors printed by all partners initiatives - congratulations!! Thanks a lot to everyone!

 

European Commission, in close cooperation with the Member States of the European Union, organises the largest hackathon ever held #EUvsVirus to develop innovative solutions to coronavirus-related challenges. Hackathon will be held from Friday, April 24 to Sunday, April 26, 2020.  Those interested can register via the link https://euvsvirus.org/ . Rijeka Development Agency Porin is an official partner of this initiative.

The General Purpose of Hackathon align and connect innovators, partners and customers across Europe and bring them together to solve immediate crisis problems (e.g. rapid production of equipment, increase of production capabilities, transfer of knowledge and solutions from one country to another) in various technological fields. During the 48 hours of the hackathon, the competitors will jointly develop innovative solutions for high-tech, hardware and software solutions using biotechnology, digital technology, social sciences and other domains in the field of innovation. This is followed by an online pitch and selection of the best projects.

The development of prototypes and solutions is envisaged in 6 areas (divided into 37 challenges):
Health and life, Business continuity, Social and political cohesion, Work and distance education, Digital finance and more.

All 37 challenges can be found at the link  https://euvsvirus.org/challenges/.  For each of the 37 challenges, two finalists will be selected and ultimately, one winner for each challenge. The winning projects will be published on the European Innovation Council (EIC Community Platform) and thus become accessible to end-users (e.g. hospitals, schools, ministries), investors, foundations and will focus on the current funding options of the European Commission. This will be the starting point for longer cooperation between the European Commission and the ecosystem of innovators, producers and drivers across Europe on the corona crisis. We invite you to on Thursday at 11 a.m. follow the live EUvsVirus Award Ceremony Winners selected from 2,160 great projects will be announced.

Director of the Rijeka Development Agency Porin, Dario Zorić has been elected by the European Commission as the official ambassador EUvsHackathon virus.

 

#HacktheCrisis #EUSolidarity #StrongerTogether #TogetherWeCan

 

After 48 hours of working the teams, The jury chose The five best. Three of the top five solutions are for children, parents and learning Chatbot Dejana assist parents and teachers in conducting distance learning for children with disabilities. Naucime.online is a platform that helps to master the materials of students, and Stay (in)sane parenting hub helps all parents to better organize time, obligations and fun for children in the days of self-isolation. All parents among you and us will be recognized easily in one of these ideas and solutions! Tilda is a digital donation platform through which help is collected for people in distress such as those who lost their homes in the recent Zagreb earthquake. In exchange for a donation, it offers users a digital call with celebrities. Behind the Name Green community rooftops for a better life hides gardens on rooftops and balconies of residential buildings that contribute to our food self-sustainability, better air quality and quality of life in cities.

 

These winning ideas are the result of a 48-hour Hackathon against the viral crisis #versusvirus.hr this weekend, which brought together 136 participants in a joint “hacking” of problems caused by the SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 pandemic.

VersusVirus is the first hackathon in Croatia held entirely in the virtual world. Since Friday evening, about fifty hackers and hackers gathered in 15 teams worked on the elaboration of their ideas with the help of about thirty mentors who were at their disposal. The task was to come up with innovative solutions to the problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Solutions were sought for a wide range of topics, from rapid responses to crisis, economy, education, arts to community empowerment, environment, governance, health, solidarity. Participants and organizers were constantly in contact through online applications Slack and videoconferencing platforms Zoom where they exchanged ideas, praise, criticism and even arranged the exchange of fresh yeast.

In addition to the help of mentors, the teams also had the opportunity to follow virtual lectures and thus further learn or strengthen the knowledge and skills they already possess – on how to maintain mental strength in times of crisis, on what impact it is and how to create projects with a positive impact, on how to prepare a good story for a video, how to present an idea well, and some surprises in selling or bringing mature ideas to the market.

One of the participants, Martina Anišić, summarized her experience: “For the first time, I participated in the hackathon because I liked the idea of working with talented people from various fields to find innovative solutions to the Covid-19 crisis in just one weekend. This has resulted in people being introduced to different skills and experience, but with the same ambition – to make the most of our abilities and come up with solutions that will concretely help our fellow citizens. I am delighted with this organisation and the mentors who have been with us every step of the way – every honour at this excellent event and I look forward to seeing what impact it will have on our community.”

To fight the viruses and deal with this and any other crisis, because they are all connected, we must be united, solidarity, cooperate and act beyond our established frameworks and that is exactly what happened at the national hackathon VersusVirus, concluded on Sunday evening.

 

The organizers of this event, who spent hours of volunteer work to make the event go smoothly, are: Impact Hub Zagreb, Technology Park Varaždin, Green Energy Cooperative, Terra Hub, Northwest Croatia Regional Energy Agency, Lean Startup Croatia, Rijeka Development Agency Porin, EIT RIS Climate KIC Hub Croatia, Ivy Digital and EduNorth.

We would like to thank all the participants and mentors and support organisations who will provide further support necessary for the implementation of the ideas, and the next meeting on this topic was agreed already on Tuesday!

 

For more information on the awarded ideas: https://versusvirus.hr/ or https://versusvirus-croatia.devpost.com/.