Tri-City Hackathon – Biotechnology & Health Innovation for Healthier, More Liveable and Resilient Cities

What if streets, squares, and transit spaces functioned as mechanisms for helping decarbonisation and enabling healthy living and ageing rather than being sterile, car-dominated corridors?

This theme encourages a creative fusion of health technology and biotech to tackle challenges posed to the municipalities in their mission to offer better standards of living.

Example Problem Statements:  (just for clarification, teams are free to define their own problem statements)

• As the climate transitions to a warmer and more extreme weathers, tree leaves fell down more abundantly and streets are more difficult to be cleaned. Also, food in the containers root earlier, posing under stress the municipality cleaning services and creating situations for the emergency of insect pests. What health/biotech solution could help mitigating these problems and decrease the municipalities’ burden?
• A big share of the carbon emissions come from personal car mobility, that not only pollutes but also consume abundant public spaces. Is the problem what consumers are used to? Has it to be with the design of the supplies and citizens’ requirements? What agro/food/supply chain solution could help mitigating these problems?
• Many carbon emissions are generated in-house, causing conurbations to be less healthier spaces than countryside small villages. What domestic solutions could help converting emitting housing appliances into net-zero or carbon-capturing agents for healthier living?

Cross-Cutting Design Principles:

Across all themes, we invite solutions that:

• Ideate how to leverage health and biotech technologies to improve the citizen’s quality of life.
• Help municipalities with limited resources to be able to provide better-directed actions and urban services .
• Rethink km. 0 actions: changing the ways of living to life better
• Create adaptable and temporary interventions that respond to changing needs across days, seasons, and crises.
• Challenge car-centric and consumption-centric norms through demonstrations and alternative visions.
• Define solutions that could be scaled up to business models

Join us for this hybrid event! Register until November 6th!

Participate in-person and benefit from the networking, or join online.

Please note that, as the event will take place across three locations (Lisbon, Barcelona and Wroclaw), two time zones will apply: Lisbon time (WEST/WET) and Europe/Warsaw time (CEST). All times in the schedule are listed in Europe/Warsaw.