What is a challenge?

It's a simple idea or a need of sea users, or a more mature project that needs a boost or special expertise.

Who can submit a challenge?

The owners of the challenge can be legal entities or individual people.

The challenge owner must:

• agree the rules of Ocean Hackathon®;
• be present during the weekend in the city he·she submitted his·her challenge, to work together with his·her team. A same owner can submit several challenge. However, a representative must be present for each selected challenge.
• register to Ocean Hackathon® if his·her challenge is selected;

What are the criteria?

To be taken into consideration, the challenges must:

• be linked with the oceans and seas, their sustainable development and/or their preservation;
• lead to new ideas and/or innovative solutions;
• be based on the use of data;
• require the development of a prototype during the event. The feasibility of the prototype must be considered.

Other criteria can be added depending on the city in which you want to participate in (click on the map opposite to have further information)

How to submit a challenge?

1. Click on the map opposite to access the page dedicated to the city in which you want to submit your challenge
2. Fill in the form before June, 15th
3. The adviser of each local edition proceeds with the selection of challenges.

Ocean Hackathon^® 2022 organised in 13 cities

The Campus mondial de la mer team is pleased to announce the 13 organisers who are joining the Ocean Hackathon® community this year and who will of course make their local edition a success from 2 to 4 December 2022. The winner of each local edition will then come and pitch his.her project at the International Grand Final in early 2023.

Click on the cities on the map opposite and discover who are the advisers.

See also the news available here.

Contacts

Contact the coordination team of Ocean Hackathon®:

• General - Juliette | juliette.rimetz@tech-brest-iroise.fr
• Data - Alice | alice.dejoux@tech-brest-iroise.fr
• Communication - Julien | julien.gras@tech-brest-iroise.fr