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If a Hackathon was initially aiming to raise some technological innovations, its sphere of influence is far wider nowadays, and may apply to many areas.

A Hackathon is a perfect occasion to generate good ideas, to stimulate R&D, to emphasize unused skills, and even to create meeting spaces for people who do not usually interact because of the gap between their area of expertise.

As a 100% online event, Energy Data Hack is unique opportunity of meeting and collective emulation between European Union students, with the “Revolution on energetical datas’ using” as central theme.

You’re a student? You wish to work on a society-based issue: energy? You find appetite for datas (research, exploitation, transmission)? You’re an engineer? You study Data Science? Intelligence?

Join us for this new edition of the Data Energy Hack!

Beware: to register, you must be enlisted in European-Union-located higher education institution or be part of an ongoing training based in E.U.

The “Energy Data Hack” Hackathon aims to gather students from entire European Union to make them think about energetical datas using within the French ministry of the Armed Forces.

To do this, you’ll have to choose between the 4 challenges proposed by organizers and think with your team about a relevant and concretely applicable solution to upload on the ChallenKers Studio platform by June, 6th, i.e. Hackathon’s ending.

The « Energy Data Hack » Hackathon is a 100% online event lasting 2-weeks-long, from May, 23^rd to June, 6^th.

Once individually registered, you can create or join your team (3 to 5 people) and select the challenge you want to work on, and answer it collectively.

Along those 2 weeks, you’ll have access to a challenges’ presentation (online presentation on Monday May, 23^rd and Tuesday, May 24^th) as well as masterclasses on Hackathon-theme-related matters (energy, French Ministry of the Armed Forces issues and jobs, creativity, pitch). You’ll be in contact with challenges’ mentors through appointment making to help you work as a team and submit your contribution.

The due date for your answer is on Monday June, 6^th at midnight.

By June, 6th, your team will be able to submit its project on the event platform : ChallenKers Studio.

To register, you simply have to go into homepage “registrations” section and follow instructions.

Definitely not, registration is 100% free of charge.

A team can be composed from 3 to 5 attendees maximum.

With an existing project, with or without any idea, alone or in team, you may register to Hackathon.

The platform ChallenKers Studio helps you to find a team if you don’t have any, to complete it if some members are missing, and to propose your project to other participants. Doing so, interested attendees might join your team.

On May, 23 at 9am, registrations will be closed. Teams will have to be 3-to-5-member composed.

During your registration, you’ll be allowed to choose only one challenge. To your time to explore the different challenges before you register, and if you change your mind on the way, feel free to contact Alfred.

Datas will be accessible once the Hackathon is officially open, on Monday, May 23rd from 12pm.

Appointments with mentors will be directly accessible on Hackathon’s platform, where you’ll be able to see their availabilities, and to send them an appointment proposal.

For each challenge, you’re asked to submit at least a project-based portfolio as well as a presentation video made by the team.

Specific deliverables for each challenge will be specified in the challenge presentation.

The maximum 10-page document must help the Jury to understand your solution or approach, the related value proposition, how it responds to your chosen challenge, and the path you’ve taken to achieve it.

It’s up to you to make as visual, clear and readable as possible! (and earn extra-points from the Jury)

We’re not expecting an optimal and directly functional solution from you, but a proposal helping us to illustrate and understand your project.

The approach and the mean of arriving at your proposal is equally important in Jury’s assessment.

The winning team of a challenge can win up to €1000 in FNAC vouchers (i.e. €200 per member) and a special allocation, based on each challenge. Other announcements are coming! 😉

The online Hackathon”Energy Data Hack” has been led by French Ministry of the Armed Forces, with the support of La Capsule and ChallenKers.