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The COVID-19 pandemic is holding the world in a medical, social and economic stranglehold. World leaders have taken unprecedented measures and actions to slow the spread of the virus which inevitably are expected to have a devastating impact on the economy.
Managing how the lifecycle of a pandemic develops is a primary concern of policy makers and industry leaders. Two pan-European hackathons are taking place later this month to help mobilise a European response to the challenge.
euvsvirus.org is a Europe-wide online hackathon organized by the most plugged in and nationally connected actors from all over Europe. It builds upon already conducted national hackathons to enable the rapid execution of brilliant solutions.
The benefits of joining this initiative include social impact, getting recognized all across the European Commission, the European Parliament and all partner networks, and being invited to pursue your project on the European Innovation Council Covid Platform, providing you with several unique opportunities.
You are invited to create international and inter-clusters teams in order to address 5 major categories of challenges:
In addition, there is the possibility to create your own challenge related to the COVID crisis, which can find a solution inside the pan-European hackathon.
The teams with the best solutions will be invited to join the European Innovation Council (EIC) Community Platform that will facilitate connections with end users (e.g. hospital) and will also provide access to investors, foundations and other funding opportunities from the EIC and other EU financial supporters. It will also be a starting point of a much longer collaboration between the European Commission and the ecosystems of innovators, makers and start-ups across Europe related to the Coronavirus crisis.
The #EUvsVirus is a call to action to each and everyone to participate in the fight against COVID-19: Demonstrate unity and share your skills for the common good across borders and generations! Let’s digitally open EU-borders during this collective challenge!
Application deadline: 19 April, 2020
Find out more: https://euvsvirus.org/
EIT Digital challenges you to find digital solutions for data driven epidemic and pandemic lifecycle management. In order to help manage pandemic lifecycles, modern digital technology, like mobile phones, data analytics, AI and social media can offer a unique set of tools to provide and analyse data, and to model, communicate and influence behaviour.
For this DeepHack the solutions will have to fit in the following domains:
The event will be open for teams of individual students, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs as well as teams from start-ups, scale-ups, SMEs and corporates. Based upon relevance of the proposed solution and the composition of the team, maximum 15 teams will be selected for participation.
The winning teams will receive a total amount of € 15,000. In addition, teams might be considered for a follow-up activity for a period of 6 months with substantial financial support from EIT Digital, to fully develop and deploy their solution
Application deadline: 27 April, 2020
Register now: https://ultrahack.org/covid-19datahack
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