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The Open Innovation Challenge’s Hackathon is finally here! 23rd to 25th February 2022
The Hackathon will focus on innovative procurements within coordinated goods distribution.
- What is the EUTOPIA Hackathon?
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As part of the Open Innovation Challenge, EUTOPIA is hosting the EUTOPIA Placemaking Challenge programme Hackathon. It will take place from 23 to 25 February, and the theme of the challenge is innovative procurements within coordinated goods distribution.
Every year, over 250 000 government agencies within the EU procure products and services for over 2 trillion Euros per year to meet the expectations and needs of its citizens. Be it public healthcare, roads or pencils. As such, these agencies have an enormous effect on what types of offerings the market provides.
The EUTOPIA partners see the Hackathon as a unique opportunity to create new ways for academia to involve students and academics in procurements. The Hackathon can create new perspectives and essentially pull the market to provide new innovative and sustainable products and services.
The Hackathon brings students from different disciplines from the six partner universities together in intensive workshops along with procurers to increase the innovative capacity of their respective procurements. The student's assignment is to present a creative ideal scenario of what society can look like based on the insights and perspectives they create concerning the specific procurement. After the Hackathon, the procurement officers will analyse the material and use it as inspiration for upcoming procurements.
What: a 3 day Hackathon using design thinking principles.
When: 23 to 25 February 2022.
Presentation: 25 February 2022 from 10:00 – 13:00.
How: Hybrid, with student teams working digitally together with procurement officers and stakeholders on a local level and coming together on an international level. - Invitation to Associated partners
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Dear associated EUTOPIA partner, you are hereby invited to participate in the student presentations from the EUTOPIA Placemaking Challenge Program Hackathon that takes place from the 23rd to the 25th of February. The theme of the challenge is innovation procurements within Coordinated goods distribution.
You have the opportunity to:
- Get inspired by a new approach to working with the initial steps of public procurement.
Gain insights into how the EUTOPIA Alliance finds new ways of creating impact and preconditions for innovation.
Every year, over 250 000 government agencies within the EU procure products and services for over 2 trillion euros per year to meet the expectations and needs of its citizens. Be it public healthcare, roads, or pencils. As such, these agencies have an enormous effect on what types of offerings the market provides.
- Students from different disciplines from the six partner universities will participate in intensive workshops together with procurers to increase the innovative capacity of their respective procurements.
- The student's assignment is to present a creative ideal scenario of what society can look like based on the insights and perspectives they create concerning the specific procurement.
- The procurers will use this as inspiration in the forthcoming work with their procurements.
The EUTOPIA partners see this as a unique opportunity to create new ways for academia to involve students and academics in procurements and foster and open up for new perspectives and pull the market to provide new innovative and sustainable products and services.
When: 23rd to 25th of February.
Presentation: 25 February 11 – 13.
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