THEME

The main theme of the next edition of the Prague INSPIRE Hackathon is Digital
Innovation Hubs, Earth Observation and Artificial Intelligence for
Rural and Regional Development, Agriculture and Transport.

3 STAGES OF THE HACKATHON

This hackathon is organised in the frame of the INSPIRE Hackathon series and is divided into three stages:

  1. Call for Digital Innovation Hubs* (DIHs) – DIH
    owners have a chance to register their DIH that would be used by the
    hackathon teams. This includes a submission of up to 3 challenges that
    should be tackled by hackathon teams. The call for DIHs is currently
    open until 20th November 2019. Please use the following link to register your DIH and relevant challenges: https://tinyurl.com/prague-inspire-hackathon-2020
  2. Remote Stage
    – This part will be open to anyone interested to join the hackathon.
    Upon registration, participants will form teams and tackle some of the
    challenges submitted by the DIH owners. The remote stage will take place from 2nd December 2019 until 12th January 2020.
  3. In-Situ
    Stage –  this stage includes the on-site hacking, presentation of
    results and the awards ceremony. All the teams will be invited to
    present their results. The in-situ stage will take place from 27th until 29th January 2020 at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague.

REMOTE STAGE

We are ready to start the second part of Prague INSPIRE Hackathon
– the so-called remote stage. You are invited to join the Prague
INSPIRE hackathon. This stage is as indicated happening remotely
(online, virtually, in cyber space).  We have identified a set of
challenges that you are encouraged to answer or contribute to solve
during this remote stage of the hackathon commencing on 2nd December
2019 and ending 12th January 2020. See our inspiring challenges and how
to join below. The final stage* of the hackathon will take place in
Prague on 27 – 29 January 2020.  

The goal of the Prague  INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 is to promote
utilisation of digital innovation hubs in agriculture and transport.

The second stage of Prague INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 is organised using
an unconventional approach, already tested on previous hackathons

This version of the INSPIRE hackathon starts with a set of predefined
challenges. Each challenge is lead by a mentor and is related to
various innovation hubs (see the list of the challenges and mentors
below). The participants of the hackathon can choose to work on any of
the predefined challenges. In this way, teams will be built to
collaborate on solving these challenges.

The mentors, also acting as team leaders, will organise the work and
are responsible for the communication in the teams formed around each
challenge.

Prizes

There are a few interesting prizes to be won in this version of the
INSPIRE hackathon. Check out the challenges to see what they are.

Register

You can register for one or more challenges. You will be then contacted by the mentor of each challenge. REGISTRATION FORM:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxAGYaRDByOJM6lYq8TzrkdzhjeWQW-aYqNAg-ZvSITHC-MA/viewform

The Challenges

The challenges and their mentors for the Prague INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 include:

* Digital Innovation Hubs are one-stop-shops that help companies
to become more competitive with regard to their business/production
processes, products or services using digital technologies. They are
based upon technology infrastructure and provide access to the latest
knowledge, expertise and technology to support their customers with
piloting, testing and experimenting with digital innovations.

ORGANISERS AND SUPPORTERS

Department of Information Technologies
has been involved in the field of teaching and scientific research,
collaborates with business, governments, and domestic and foreign
universities. It participates in many domestic and international
projects and is part of international teams tackling applied research.
Its focus puts DIT among the most prolific departments of Faculty of Economics and Management Czech University of Life Sciences Prague.

Plan4all –
Plan4all is a non-profit association sustaining and further enhancing
the results of multiple research and innovation projects. It aggregates
large open datasets related to planning activities in different
specialisms areas transport, spatial and city planning, environment and tourism. Plan4all makes sure that open data are easily accessible for reuse, data are maintained and their quality is improved.

CSITA (Czech Society for Information Technology in Agriculture) nongovernment
organization was founded in 2002 for the purpose of supporting
development and use of ICT in agrarian sector (agriculture, forestry,
water management, environment, food environment and manufacturing
industry) and in countryside in general (in rural regions).

WirelessInfo

The focus of WIRELESSINFO is new development, testing and
exploitation of services and technologies for spatial data management in
areas of rural development including agriculture and forestry,
emergency systems, logistics and public administration

Lesprojekt

LESPROJEKT-SLUŽBY Ltd, as a small innovative firm, has a vast
experience in applying research results in practice. A long-term focus
of LESPROJEKT-SLUŽBY Ltd is on commercialization of research results as
products and services. LESPROJEKT-SLUŽBY Ltd plays a crucial role in the
market for more than 20 years and focuses mainly on commercial
activities in environment, crisis management, forestry, agriculture and
transport. The results from previous research activities are offered
mainly as services, e.g. SaaS (Software as a Services), PaaS (Platform
as a Service) a IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).

Ceske centrum pro vědu a společnost

CCSS is focused on transfer, analyses and proliferation of the most
advanced technologies which are contributing to the growth of
productivity not only in industrial enterprises but in the branch of
small and medium business as well.  CCSS is active in the agriculture,
industry, trade and services, predominantly in agricultural regions. The
priority of activities of CCSS is Environment protection and crisis
management. In this field CCSS is active in European research.

SmartAgriHubs

SmartAgriHubs is a €20 M EU project under the Horizon 2020
instrument, and brings together  a consortium of well over 164 partners
in the European agri-food sector. The project aims to realise the
digitisation of European agriculture by fostering an agricultural
innovation ecosystem dedicated to excellence, sustainability and
success.

PoliRural

PoliRural will provide a set of knowledge resources including an
inclusive learning environment where rural populations, researchers and
policymakers come together to address common problems; an evaluation
exercise that uses text mining to assess the perceived effectiveness of
past or planned policy interventions; and a foresight study that will
collect the development trajectory of  agriculture and its allied
sectors until 2040 using several scenarios in which the evolution of
rural populations occupies a central place

EO4Agri

EO4AGRI main target is the preparation of the European capacity for
improving operational agriculture monitoring from local to global levels
based on information derived from Copernicus satellite observation data
and through exploitation of associated geospatial and socio-economic
information services.

SIEUSOIL

SIEUSOIL aims to develop sustainable and holistic soil management
practices based on a harmonised land information system suitable for
diverse climate and operation conditions along different EU and China
locations.

STARGATE

STARGATEs contribution beyond state-of-the-art in applied climatic
data solutions is the implementation of analytics models to support
local and regional policy formulation and implementation related to
mitigation on microclimate changes. Currently, policy making
organizations predominantly utilize own data, typically limited to their
own  jurisdiction/administrative area.

DEMETER

The DEMETER Project is a large-scale deployment of farmer centric
interoperable smart farming-IoT based platforms delivered through a
series of 20 pilots across 18 countries (15 States in the EU). Involving
60 partners, DEMETER adopts a multi-actor approach across the value
chain (demand and supply), with 25 deployment sites, 6,000 farmers and
over  38,000 devices and sensors being deployed and participants
involved come from different production sectors (dairy, meat,
vegetables, fruit and arable crops), production systems (conventional
and organic) and different farm sizes and types, optimising the data
analysis obtained across multiple farms.

NextGEOSS– The
NextGEOSS project will implement a federated data hub for access and
exploitation of Earth Observation data, including user-friendly tools
for data mining, discovery, access and exploitation. 

EUXDAT –
Agriculture is a, literally, vital industry. Not only important for
nourishment, but also a key determinant of health, economic and
political stability; employment; business and biological ecosystems; and
society. Because of its importance, most attention focuses on
productivity but it is essential to have a global view in order to
address environment sustainability problems. 

Liverur – Living Lab research concept in Rural Areas.

LIVERUR aims to expand an extremely innovative business model called Living Labs
among rural regions. Living laboratories are ecosystems of open
innovation, centered on the user, which often operate in a territorial
context, integrating concurrent research and innovation processes within
a public-private partnership.

The basis for the strategic development of a rural Living Lab is to
establish an association of sustainable stakeholders; users, policy
makers, businesses and researchers enter into agreements on the basis of
which they can participate in a longer-term collaboration.​

However, it can be expected that a successful Living Lab design will be highly affected by the specific context of Living Lab’s rural environment and by its specific objectives and ambitions.

The LIVERUR project identifies Living Labs as innovative business
models that are currently being developed in rural areas, and will
conduct socio-economic analyzes to identify, describe and compare the
differences between the new approach of Living Lab and more
entrepreneurial traditional approaches (mass production, development of
prices, optimizing cost structures with companies, rationalization).

In the long term, the project will increase the potential for rural economic diversification.

(Social media: Two official accounts: @liverur on Twitter, @Liverurproject on Facebook).

PoliVisu–
Policy Development based on Advanced Geospatial Data Analytics and
Visualisation. is a Research and Innovation project designed to evolve
the traditional public policy making cycle using big data.  The aim is
to enhance an open set of digital tools to leverage data to help public
sector decision-making become more democratic by (a) experimenting with
different policy options through impact visualisation and (b) using the
resulting visualisations to engage and harness the collective
intelligence of policy stakeholders for collaborative solution
development.

AFarCloud
– Farming is facing many economic challenges in terms of productivity
and cost-effectiveness, as well as an increasing labour shortage partly
due to depopulation of rural areas. Reliable detection, accurate
identification and proper quantification of pathogens affecting both
plant and animal health, must be kept under control to reduce
unnecessary costs, trade disruptions and even human health risks.

Responsible innovation promotes science education, open access,
risk-assessment, good governance, societal engagement, gender equality
and ethics,. Central European countries lack knowledge, skills and
policy frameworks to encourage responsible innovation. This shortage
limits the overall potential for innovation and ultimately threatens
responsible economic growth and well-being. The ROSIE project aims to
improve skills among entrepreneurs and innovation actors to promote
responsible innovation in companies. More information about the ROSIE
project is available on the web page, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Commission on Maps and the Internet of International Cartographic Association
(ICA) detects and integrates new trends related to the interconnection
of cartography and the Internet such 3D cartography, semantic issues in
cartography and spatial data, participatory mapping and co-creation
approach in cartography, new education methods related to the Internet,
Big data, Linked Open Data or Internet of Things. More information about
the commission is available on web page, Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.

NextGEOSS –
The NextGEOSS project will implement a federated data hub for access
and exploitation of Earth Observation data, including user-friendly
tools for data mining, discovery, access and exploitation. This data hub
will be supported by a strong commitment to the engagement of Earth
Observation and related communities, with the view of supporting the
creation of innovative and business oriented applications. The main
general objectives for NextGEOSS are to 1) Deliver the next generation
data hub and Earth Observation exploitation for innovation and business;
2) Engage communities, promoting innovative GEOSS powered applications
from Europe; and 3) Advocate GEOSS as a sustainable European approach
for Earth Observation data distribution and exploitation. NextGEOSS
engages main providers of Earth Observation data, including Copernicus
Collaborative Ground Segments and Core Services.

RDA Czech Republic –
RDA is an international volunteer member-based organisation and as such
encourages the initiative and support of its members across the globe
to animate their community on a national level. RDA Europe national node
are part of the RDA Europe support programme whose aim is to interact
with researchers and innovators in the local language, offering them a
platform for exchange of information pertinent to the RDA and their
activities and in strict compliance with RDA’s guiding principles of
Openness, Transparency, Consensus-based, Community driven, Harmonisation
and Non-profit. The national pages should not be interpreted as an
official representation of the Research Data Alliance in any country or
any organisation unless this is specifically stated.