{"id":2370,"date":"2021-12-06T11:19:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T10:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tecnotex.it\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2021-12-06T11:19:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T10:19:55","slug":"galactica-2nd-hackathon-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tecnotex.it\/en\/galactica-2nd-hackathon-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"GALACTICA 2nd Hackathon winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GALACTICA held this week the final of the 2nd<\/sup> hackathon awarding 45k\u20ac in prizes. <\/strong><\/h3>\n

9 teams were selected for the final round from 8 countries.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

GALACTICA, which aims to demonstrate the viability of new industrial value chains regarding the textile and aerospace sectors based on advanced manufacturing across the EU, held this week the final event of 2nd<\/sup> hackathon and awarded 45k\u20ac in prizes.<\/em><\/p>\n

The<\/em> Hackathon was addressed to the European SMEs, start-ups and students to develop <\/em>innovative solutions that could be part of cross-sectoral and cross-border value chains.<\/em><\/p>\n

HACKATHON<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The GALACTICA Hackathon was open to start-ups and SMEs as well as to university students based in European Union (EU27) or United Kingdom. The registration was open till 28th<\/sup> September. The 2nd GALACTICA Hackathon has taken place in two rounds, firstly a virtual challenge with 14 teams registered on open innovation from October 1st to 14th, and a 2nd round for the 9 selected finalists on November 30th and December 1st, 2021. The second round has been held in Terrassa (Spain).<\/p>\n

The finalist teams came from: Austria, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, United Kingdom<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the 1st<\/sup> day, 30th<\/sup> November<\/strong> the 9 teams from 8 countries met with the GALACTICA to launch the hackathon challenge for the second round and were given 24h to deliver it. All teams had the chance of receiving mentoring by the external jury panel. Selected jury members covered the different sectors and activities of Galactica: textile, aerospace, advanced manufacturing, start-up development and investment.<\/p>\n

On the 2nd<\/sup> Day, 1st<\/sup> December,<\/strong> following hard work by all teams, they pitched their developed concepts on how to combine advanced manufacturing, aerospace and\/or textile to the jury panel, who scored each team based on innovation potential, market potential, feasibility, team readiness and cross-sectoral approach and relevance to GALACTICA objectives.<\/p>\n

After a consensus meeting among all jury to select winners, GALACTICA held the award ceremony with a featured pitches from the venue host (ESEEIAT-UPC<\/a>), the project coordinator of GALACTICA presenting the upcoming activities and opportunities to continue with the developments to market, and the presentation of a local awardee from Orbital Projects, E.CIMA<\/a> with TEXCOOL project.<\/p>\n

The winners under the different categories are:<\/h3>\n

SME\/Start-up category winner<\/strong>: AmaDema<\/a> (Cyprus)<\/p>\n