![]() People in 141 countries participated in the event.īuilding on this experience, three EU-led hackathons took place this month: the European Big Data Hackathon, organised by EuroStat the EMODnet Open Sea Lab hackathon, organised by European Marine Observation and Data Network ( EMODnet) and the Cassini hackathon, organised by the EU Agency for the Space Programme.Įach had a similar goal of encouraging participants to delve into huge EU-funded datasets to address societal and environmental challenges. That generated 117 potential products and services including a patient monitoring system that minimised the need for physical contact between nurses and patients, a remote queuing app to ensure social distancing in shops, and a sewer surveillance platform for detecting the virus in wastewater, to help decision makers direct resources where they were most needed. ![]() Hackathons are another route to generating products and services, as the European Commission discovered during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the EIC organised the EUvsVirus hackathon. The focus on translation is evident in the greater emphasis in Horizon Europe - compared to the forerunning Horizon 2020 - on supporting innovation, and forming and growing companies, including making equity investments through the European Innovation Council (EIC). ![]() The aim is to overcome the long-running ‘European paradox’ that Europe is a science superpower in terms of what comes out of its laboratories, but fails to extract full value of this knowledge because it lags in translation and commercialisation. ![]() ![]() Taking a leaf out of the corporate playbook, the EU is turning to hackathons as a way of opening up data generated in the research that it funds to fresh eyes and multi-discipline expertise, in a bid to spark innovation. ![]()
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