Lisbon Green Hackathon March 11 - 12, 2016 Lisbon, Portugal

A Oficina das Energias está-se a preparar para organizar o Lisbon Green Hackathon, uma maratona entre equipas que as incentiva a pôr as mãos na massa – eletrónica, programação, design e muita criatividade – para desenvolver uma ideia/projeto para um futuro sustentável. Mais informações sobre esta série internacional de eventos http://www.greenhackathon.com/ ou nas páginas do evento:

Green Hackathon is an international series of events to get together to create and implement new ideas for a more sustainable future. We believe in a hacker approach to sustainability: getting excited and building things, using and producing open data and code, being creative, using computer technology and ideas to change the world for better.

 

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Lisbon Green Hackathon 2016 is part of Green Hackathon international series of events. Organized by Oficina das Energias, a group of students from the Energy and Environment course at FCUL, the project is a hacker approach to sustainability. In an intensive 24 hours marathon, 10 teams will develop ideas for a greeener future, build a prototype and present it to a juri.

WHEN

18:00 Friday March 11 – 18:00 Saturday March 12

WHERE

FCUL – Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Rua Ernesto de Vasconcelos, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal

WHO

The target audience are the engineer students in Lisbon, but really anyone can join!

HOW

Registration through Eventbrite will open one month before and shall close 2 weeks prior the event. The event is free, but a deposit payment of 5€ is required by bank transfer or monetarily in FCUL, to be returned after the event.
You can sign up with a team or alone and with or without an idea.
There will be time for ideas pitching and teams formation for everyone. However you can sign up already with a 4 elements team if you prefer and you may also suggest an idea and prepare some material for the hacking. The limit is 40 participants or 10 teams. A selection process might take place according to the number of applications.

SCHEDULE

Dia	Hora	Atividade
Friday 11th March	17:30	Arrival and registration of the participants
	18:00	Organization’s Welcome
	18:15	Fast Talks
	18:35	Coffe-Break
	18:45	Brainstorming Session
	19:10	Challenges VS Solutions
	19:30	Dinner
	20:00
	20:30	Pitching Ideas and Team Formation
	21:00
	21:30	Hacking
	22:00
	22:30
	23:00
	23:30
Saturday 12th March	All night long
	10:00	Briefing
	10:30	Hacking
	11:30
	12:00
	12:30	Pizza!
	13:00	Hacking
	13:30
	14:00
	14:30
	15:00
	15:30
	16:00	Presentations
	16:30
	17:00
	17:30
	18:00	Awards and Closing

In hacking periods participants may leave and return to the building as they wish and can either stay overnight or go home to sleep. There will be designated resting areas and feeding snacks and drinks will become available during these periods. The staff will provide support and advice according to their skills and areas.

FAST-TALKS AND BRAINSTORMING

Fast-talks are intended to bring enthusiasts to speedy inspiring speeches to stimulate the participants inventions’ creativity. The organization will also try to help with some brainstorm group activities, but the idea will still need to come from the participants!

IDEAS PITCHING

No matter how far-fetched, at this point everyone needs to come up with some kind of idea for a 1 minute “elevator presentation” for the remaining participants. Afterwards the groups and respectively ideas will be determined by a group idea selection dynamic. Participants with pre-formed groups will also participate, being naturally free to get together during the activity.

HACKING

The goal will be to develop the idea’s concept in greater details as much as possible and shall include the development of some kind of prototype as software or hardware. There will be some common electronic material to all teams but the main responsibility is from the participants, who must bring or purchase the material as they see fit.

JURI

The jury invited by the organization will be composed by people linked to the area. They will give feedback on the projects and evaluate the following metrics:

• Environmental impact: assessment of benefit and influence of the environment hack
• Innovation: assessment of the extent to which the idea is new and has a good approach to the problem it seeks to solve
• Technical Maturity: assess to some extent the idea was developed and shows work from a technical point of view
• Business Idea: evaluates the underlying business value to the idea in terms of business models that make sustainable and financially viable

The prizes, to be announced before the event, will then be distributed by the organization for the 3 following categories:

• Best Green Hack: that sums up the best overall score
• Biggest Environmental Impact Hack: with best score in metric “Environmental Impact”
• Best Bussiness Idea: with best score in metric “Business Idea”

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Email
oficinaenergias@fc.ul.pt

Phone
+351 919498576