Hacking the city

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Design a Circular Future

14 – 18 May 2024

Naples and Vicenza + Online

Let’s build the Circular Cities of the future!

The future is circular

The Hackathon is designed to bring to life and concretise projects that foster the implementation of the circular economy in cities, involving students, recent graduates, and PhD students in redesigning cities.

The event will be a hybrid one, with physical locations in Naples (University of Naples Federico II ‘Complesso di Monte Sant’Angelo’) and Vicenza (Risorgive del Bacchiglione and Viale Margherita University Complex), but will allow the online participation of students from all over Italy. The aim is to lead to the emergence of innovative and entrepreneurial activities in various fields, within which challenges have been defined, thanks to the involvement of industrial partners for each of the fields.

The Hackathon is open to teams of students, recent graduates and PhD students from any Italian university. We are looking for creative candidates who are passionate about the circular economy and are willing to get involved. More information on requirements and modalities can be found in the regulations.

Candidates and their teams will have time to submit their project ideas from 18 April to 12 May 2024.

[ 1 ] Challenge water | Viacqua

Teams are asked to design innovative solutions aimed at conscious and responsible water consumption, reduction of water withdrawals, protection and conservation of resources and more effective management of flood events in urban areas.

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[ 2 ] Challenge mobility and logistics | EPM

Participants are asked to develop innovative solutions to improve transport and logistics systems’ efficiency, sustainability and security.

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[ 3 ] Challenge workplace wellbeing | Pelletterie Palladio

The challenge is to design innovative and digital solutions to foster a healthy, balanced work environment aligned with the company’s values, where employees can feel connected and part of something bigger.

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[ 4 ] Challenge university | Tondo

The challenge is to design innovative solutions to improve students’ quality of life, reduce the university complex’s environmental impact, and promote integration and social aspects within the university.

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Become the protagonist of change

Participants will have the opportunity to develop and define their team’s solution and present it to a jury of experts at the end of the second day. The jury will analyse the projects and nominate the winning teams for each challenge. The deserving ones will then be rewarded by the companies promoting the challenge.

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Would you like to participate in the hackathon in one of the challenges? Click here!

Programme

For more details, download the 4-day programme here.

Challenge presentation

To participate in the challenges presentation event, click here!

The winning teams will be rewarded by the partner companies involved in the Hackathon with an online purchase voucher worth 250 euros for each member of the winning team, up to a maximum of 1000 euros per team. Find out the details in the regulations! In addition, all teams that make it to the final round will have the opportunity to become Tondo associates.

Timeline

Partners

Patronage

Industrial Partner

University Partner

FAQ

For further information or interest, download the most frequently asked questions here.