Faq

During the hackathon, ideas get built into prototypes with teamwork and mentoring support. EU:Africa The  Journey will be a 72-hour hackathon. The organizing team guides you through all the steps of the hackathon from idea submission to mentoring and final presentations to the jury for selecting winners. The best ideas are selected on December 6 and Garage48 team will send a letter to all the chosen teams with complete instructions on how the hackathon process will look like. We will let everyone who didn’t make it know as well. Follow the event information and agenda for idea submission: https://eventornado.com/event/euafrica-the-journey

We’re welcoming ideas aimed at solving the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis and its socio-economic aftermath. The intent of this hackathon is to develop ideas that are prototypeable in 72-hours which could help solve the crisis. 11 challenge areas tackled in this program are:

Education ⎮ Food security ⎮ Job Security ⎮ Vulnerable Populations ⎮ Health & Wellness ⎮ Financial Services ⎮ Big Data ⎮ Cyber Security ⎮Smart Cities⎮Job Security ⎮ Financial Services ⎮ Cyber Security⎮ Digital Economy ⎮ e-Governance⎮ Smart Cities

1) Click “Participate” at the hackathon platform and sign up or sign in with your social media profile. You do not need a password- an email address is enough and the sign in link will be e-mailed to you: https://eventornado.com/event/euafrica-the-journey#home

2) Look at the challenges click “Post Idea” to submit your idea to the hackathon

Watch the Participant Video Tutorial of Eventornado if you are still struggling with what to do!

The absolute final deadline to submit your idea is the 5th of December, 23:59pm GMT +2.
But please remember- you have to submit a full team as well by that time in order to participate.

YES! Only with visionaries and idea owners and experts from all the various fields this crisis is affecting, can we truly fight the pandemic. Whether you come from healthcare, education, social services or any other field – we need your ideas and your expertise!

We strongly suggest you to choose one idea and prepare your idea submission and team as thoroughly as possible – do research, talk to people, involve additional experts to your team and make a plan for what you’re gonna build in the 72 hours.

Yes, of course, all the ideas are signed up by individuals, you have to add your team members later to your idea, to form a team. If you know you are missing some needed roles to work with your idea during the hackathon, we strongly advise you to put your network to work and find the missing skill-set and expertise. While we let you sign up your idea as an individual participant, if your idea gets chosen, you have to put together a team before being able to compete at the hackathon (see also rules for team submission).

The minimum number of the participants in the team is 3. The maximum number of team members is ten. While we let you sign up your idea as an individual participant, if your idea gets chosen, you have to put together a team before being able to compete at the hackathon. The rules to submit the team are following:

Each team should consist of

• Idea owner who will take the role of the team lead (coordinating, project management)
• Developer
• Designer (UX/UI)An engineer, if an idea execution requires it (optional)

More important than the rules given by us, is for you to make sure that all the skills that are necessary to turn your idea into a prototype during the 72 hours are covered. Please note that all the team members have to register on the hackathon as individuals as well only after that they can be added to an existing team.

There are 2 main ways:

• If you have an idea, and you know someone who wants to join, you can invite them to join your idea (team) via e-mail on the Eventornado platform.  This person who receives the email has to click on the e-mail and accept your invitation and boom, you have a new team member on Eventornado.
• All the ideas are public at the moment! Everyone who has registered for the event can click on your idea and hit “Apply to join”. Then an idea owner gets a notification about it and can either accept it or decline it. If you do not have a team ready yet, don’t worry, you can definitely find new people on the matchmaking sessions on the 27th of November and on Slack. Happy networking!

After you submit your team and your idea, the selected team of mentors will go over each application one by one. We will announce the TOP teams that will enter the competition on December 6!

If you are a solo applicant at the time of the idea submission, start working on gathering a team with needed expertise to build your idea into a prototype. Put your own, your friends & family, colleagues networks to use to gather your team. We will also facilitate online matchmaking sessions where you will be able to meet with other teams and participants to put together a team. Links will be shared on the event’s Facebook page, so make sure to follow that for the most up-to-date news!

You can update it anytime before the 15th of November on Eventornado. After that, we will start evaluating ideas. We will evaluate your idea submission once. Put as much thought and effort into your idea submission as possible – do research, talk to people, involve additional experts to your team and make a plan for what you’re gonna build in the 72 hours.

• Proposed problem matches with the topic and problem is specific enough to be tackled at the hackathon.
• Description of the solution is clear and solves the problem well.
• The solution has a potential for big impact and the possibility to make a real change in its beneficiaries lives.
• Team is formed and includes all required skills.

Developed product’s IP remains the property of the team, who is participating in the program. If any outside party (investors, other companies, governmental organizations) wishes to proceed and acquire the prototype developed during the hackathon, a mutual agreement must be reached and an agreement between both parties must be signed about the IP. The organizers, partners and sponsors of the program will not take over any rights or equity in the ideas at the hackathon. The team will agree among themselves on who owns what part of the idea.

If you do not feel like you can get a team together around your idea, you are more than welcome to browse other deas and choose a team whose ideas you relate to the most. You can contact the team leads in Eventornado by chatting up with them under each idea. We will also facilitate online matchmaking sessions, where you will be able to meet with other teams and participants to put together a team.

The main communication channel of the hackathon will be Slack. All the selected teams are invited to join the #euafricathejourney Slack group latest on December 7. We recommend downloading the Slack app to both- to your smartphones and computers and allow the notifications. Slack will be the place for important hackathon workflow announcements, the place for communication with your team and a good way to connect with the mentors.

Download Slack for your

• Mac
• Windows
• Android
• iPhone

Second important tool will be Zoom. We will run the webinars and checkpoints via Zoom and share the links with you over Slack.

Download Zoom for your

• Computer
• Android
• iPhone

🏆🏆PRIZES!🏆🏆

The prize pool is 50,000€. In addition, the TOP20 teams will be invited to a post-hackathon acceleration program.

Here’s the prize fund distribution:
I Place overall – 10,000€
II Place overall – 8,000€
III Place overall – 5,000€+ Plus 2,000€ to each of the category winners!

• Pre-acceleration program for the 20 best teams. Fully online, and last up to 8 weeks. The goal of the online pre-accelerator is to understand the objectives of each team, also the individual challenges each team faces.
• After the post-hackathon acceleration program teams are encouraged to continue their path on the residential acceleration programs that suit their individual needs. Many of these programs are also the community partners of the #euafricathejourney.