Local edition in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain)

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Who organises the local edition in Santa Cruz de Tenerife?

INNOVALIA is an independent private research center with over 25 years of experience in technology-driven innovation. We support product development, provide strategic advisory services, and monitor policies—particularly in digital transformation, cybersecurity, industrial modernization, and entrepreneurship.
Active in key European and global initiatives, we are members of organizations like FIWARE, EFFRA, BDVA, and AIOTI, and contribute to the World Economic Forum’s Advanced Manufacturing Hub.
We offer strategic innovation consultancy to private firms, supporting digitalization, business management, and internationalization. For the public sector, we provide specialized services for policy design and evaluation. We also excel in community building and coordinating complex EU projects.

Marine Research and Innovation Infrastructure - PLOCAN offers state-of-the-art facilities, including its offshore platform and testing environments, which support the development and prototyping of marine technologies. These resources are critical for advancing blue economy objectives. Blue economy sectors (e.g. Offshore Renewable Energies, coastal tourism and marine living resources) - PLOCAN has extensive expertise in multiuse and co-location, and offshore wind, solar and wave energy systems.

Topics of the Challenges in Santa Cruz de Tenerife

In this edition, the themes of the challenges selected to participate in the 2026 Ocean Hackathon® in Santa Cruz de Tenerife must be directly related to Blue technologies and Ocean Observation.

Would you like to become a challenge owner?

Find out what a challenge owner is and submit your application using the form below: 

Call for challenges - Santa Cruz de Tenerife

The Ocean Hackathon® local event in Santa Cruz is part of the UPWELLING project from the Interreg Atlantic Area programme.