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EU Datathon 2020

Innovating for Europe with EU open data

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In a nutshell

What is it about?

The fourth edition of EU Datathon, the open data competition, has been launched on 19 February.

To take part, you should propose the development of an application that links and uses open datasets, of which at least one from the thousands made available by the EU institutions, agencies and bodies. For more detailed information, see the rules of the competition below.

Your application should showcase opportunities for concrete business models or social enterprises. It is also expected to find suitable new approaches and solutions to help Europe achieve important goals set by the European Commission through the use of open data.

What are the challenges?

  • Challenge 1: ‘A European Green Deal’
  • Challenge 2: ‘An economy that works for people’
  • Challenge 3: ‘A new push for European democracy’
  • Challenge 4: ‘A Europe fit for the digital age’

Submit your proposal with a short description by 3 May 2020.

What are the prizes?

This is your chance to demonstrate the potential that open data present in today’s society and, of course, your creativity and talent!

It is also your chance to claim your share of the total prize fund amounting to EUR 100 000.

Twelve winning teams (i.e. three teams per challenge) will be shortlisted. If you are among them, you will be invited to develop your application and present it on 15 October during the 18th European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels, an event that attracts more than 9 000 participants from all over the world.

The final ranking of the winning teams for each challenge will be decided at this event and the teams will be awarded the following prizes (for each of the challenges):

  • First place: EUR 12 000
  • Second place: EUR 8 000
  • Third place: EUR 5 000

The EU Datathon 2020 is organised by the Publications Office of the European Union, in close collaboration with the European Commission Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy.

 

Agenda, 15 October 2020

  Opening
9.00
António CARNEIRO
Welcome speech
António Carneiro (Publications Office of the European Union, Acting Director-General)
Normunds POPENS
Welcome speech
Normunds Popens (European Commission - Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy, Deputy Director-General)
Johannes HAHN
Keynote speech
Johannes Hahn (European Commission, Commissioner for Budget and Administration)
Robert DEHM
Keynote speech
Robert Dehm (Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU, Digital Policy and Telecommunication Counsellor)
   
  Challenge 1: ‘A European Green Deal’
9.30
Katja ROSENBOHM
Opening speech
Katja Rosenbohm (European Environment Agency, Head of Programme for Communications)
Challenge 1
Finalists showcase their apps
Dataseeds, Elaboro and geoFluxus
  Break
   
  Challenge 2: ‘An economy that works for people’
10.30
Elisa FERREIRA
Opening speech
Elisa Ferreira (European Commission, Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms)
Challenge 2
Finalists showcase their apps
Amires, EU Twinnings and Team FinLine
  Break
   
  Challenge 3: ‘A new push for European democracy’
11.30
Alexandra BALAHUR
Opening speech
Alexandra Balahur (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Project Officer)
Challenge 3
Finalists showcase their apps
EU Integrity Watch, Next Generation Democracy and Shield
  Break
   
  Challenge 4: ‘A Europe fit for the digital age’
12.30
Daniele RIZZI
Opening speech
Daniele Rizzi (European Commission - Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, Policy Officer)
Challenge 4
Finalists showcase their apps
2 Think, Digital Forest Dryads of Copernicus and Government APIs
  Break
   
  Award ceremony
13.30
Sasha BAILLIE
Closing keynote
Sasha Baillie (Luxinnovation, CEO)
Paul HOFHEINZ
Awarding winners chaired by jury president
Paul Hofheinz (The Lisbon Council, President and Co-Founder)

 

WINNERS OF EU DATATHON 2020

EU Datathon 2020 award ceremony

 

The fourth edition of EU Datathon culminated with the online finals on 15 October. The 12 finalist teams, shortlisted from 121 submissions of original ideas on how to exploit EU open data, presented their applications in front of the competition jury and the audience of over 300 open data professionals and enthusiasts.

The jury of 25 open data specialists, chaired by Paul Hofheinz, President and Co-Founder of the Lisbon Council, announced the winners for each of the four challenges of this year´s EU Datathon, and the Public Choice Award.

 

Challenge 1:
A European Green Deal

EU Datathon 2020 challenge 1

 

1st place: geoFluxus

The team presented a visually impressive open-source platform that maps how waste travels through European cities. GeoFluxus also classifies waste for reuse in a circular economy and enables governments to track waste usage.

2nd place: Elaboro

The application designed by Elaboro quantifies environmental issues, identifies risk factors and measures the effectiveness of interventions. It evaluates expenditures and impacts related to environmental projects, and provides an overview of the Horizon2020 digital transformation initiatives.

3rd place: Dataseeds

The Dataseeds team created an application that provides SMEs in the field of agriculture with direct access to better and more detailed information to help them become part of the green restructuring of the EU industry.

 

Challenge 2:
An economy that works for people

EU Datathon 2020 challenge 2

 

1st place: Team FinLine

The FinLine application addresses the difficult situation that many SMEs find themselves in due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It helps SMEs assess their financial viability and provides free customised advice for suitable grants and investment options.

2nd place: Amires

EU4Region, the application created by Amires helps identify unknown patterns, causal relations and changes resulting from the injection of EU funds in various regions. It maps the state of cohesiveness and inclusion of EU regions through funding.

3rd place: EU Twinnings

EU Twinnings presented a visually catchy application that brings Eurostat data to a wider, non-specialist audience by calculating similarity matrices of Eurostat statistics between regions. It allows the user to identify areas with similar statistical data.

 

Challenge 3:
A new push for European Democracy

EU Datathon 2020 challenge 3

 

1st place: Next Generation Democracy

Next Generation Democracy presented an application that introduces the Future Readiness Index which enables EU citizens to assess the work of politicians in various domains. Through the app, citizens can follow topics or individual politicians and directly engage with them.

2nd place: Shield

Fake News Shield detects fake news by scanning sources for their credibility with the help of AI. The app detects false profiles on social media and works as an ad blocker.

3rd place: EU Integrity Watch

EU Integrity Watch monitors the integrity of the EU institutions. It enables the cross-referencing of procurement awards notices with the EU Transparency Register, and automated comparison of information contained in procurement notices with award notices.

 

Challenge 4:
A Europe fit for the digital age

EU Datathon 2020 challenge 4

 

1st place: Digital Forest Dryads of Copernicus

The team of Digital Dryads aims to protect the forests in Romania from illegal logging by using state of the art satellite imagery, spectral analysis and machine learning. It presented an interactive map of deforestation in Romania.

2nd place: Government APIs

To build commercial applications or citizen-facing apps, external stakeholders need to be sure that government APIs are well maintained. The presented dashboard helps determine the value of government APIs.

3rd place: 2 Think

Citizen Journey is a playful app to help young people understand the impact of EU programmes. The user makes data correlations from several points of view (demographical, geographical, green and economic). Available in Google Play and App Store.

 

The Public Choice Award

Accepting the Public Choice Award, Ronnie Das from Team FinLine said: ʻI have tried to build something useful. It was just an idea 17 weeks ago and now it´s a reality. We built something for the public and I am really honoured for Team FinLine to be voted the best project by the public.ʼ

1st place: Team FinLine

2nd place: Dataseeds

3rd place: Elaboro

 

The finalists

EU Datathon 2020 all finalists

 

Out of 121 proposals submitted for this year´s EU Datathon, the jury has preselected 12 ideas to compete in the finals during the European Week of Regions and Cities (12-15 October 2020) in Brussels.

The teams are competing in four categories according to the challenge their proposal addresses: ‘A European Green Deal’ (Challenge 1), ‘An economy that works for people’ (Challenge 2), ‘A new push for European democracy’ (Challenge 3) and ‘A Europe fit for the digital age’ (Challenge 4).

We are happy to announce the successful finalists and introduce their proposals!

 

Challenge 1:
A European Green Deal

Dataseeds

Description of app: In terms of volume, content, and structure, EU open data is exceptionally complex, which makes its usage challenging for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The app aims to provide SMEs in the field of agriculture with direct access to better and more detailed information to help them become part of the green restructuring of the EU industry.

Datasets: EEA, Eurostat, EUR-Lex, EIB, REGIO, INEA, CORDIS, JRC

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Andrea Briones
Spain
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Aura Cristina Guerrero
Spain
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Borja Ybarra
Spain
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Paula Sanz Alvaro
Spain

 

 

Elaboro

Description of app: How is Europe performing on its environmental commitments? The application ‘Spendingreen’, says the team, will quantify environmental issues, identify risk factors and measure the effectiveness of interventions. Analysing data, combining indexes by countries and regions, and evaluating Horizon 2020 expenditures and impacts related to environmental projects, the app will provide an assessment of the amount spent in each country and insights on the outcomes. It will also allow users to verify Horizon 2020 digital transformation initiatives and forecasts for the future.

Datasets: CORDIS, REGIO (ESIF,) OECD, Eurostat, JRC

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Andrea Chiericati
Italy
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Brunilda Cullhaj
Albania
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Tomasz Konrad
Poland
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Viola Vittoria Soranzo
Italy

 

 

geoFluxus

Description of app: Circular Economy requires a systemic overview of waste streams and their environmental impacts. Building on datasets acquired from local governments in 11 regions within 9 EU countries, the open-source platform for waste flow mapping and analytics, designed within the Horizon 2020 projects REPAIR and CINDERELA, connects regional industrial waste producers with respective waste treatment facilities. The proposed app focuses on creating waste impact profiles for each waste-producing company. For governments, the platform indicates which economic sectors, materials, and locations need to be tackled to achieve the highest reductions in emissions. For companies, it allows a comparison of their emissions related to waste output with those of their competitors.

Datasets: CORDIS, EEA, Eurostat

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Rusne Sileryte
Lithuania
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Arnout Sabbe
Belgium
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Vasileios Bouzas
Greece
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Evert van Hirtum
Belgium

 

 

Challenge 2:
An economy that works for people

Amires

Description of app: EU4Region is a visualisation platform that maps the state of cohesiveness and inclusion of EU regions through funding. It seeks to explore the absorption capacity of EU funding and help identify unknown patterns, causal relations, and changes resulting from the injection of EU funds in various regions. The team’s ambition for this platform? Facilitate evidence-based policy-making by identifying regions that are lagging behind and encourage their participation in future funding programs.

Datasets: CORDIS, Eurostat

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John Kennedy Mwangi
Kenya
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Rudolf Fryček
Czechia
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Roman Pašek
Czechia
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Lenka Bajarová
Czechia

 

 

EU Twinnings

Description of app: Find your area's twin and explore similar regions in the EU! This is the goal of this app which brings Eurostat data to a wider, non-specialist audience. It calculates similarity matrices of Eurostat statistics between regions, allowing the user to find which area is the ‘twin’ of their area, i.e. the area with the most similar statistical data. The user is able to choose a different area or pair of areas, and discover their similarities. Also, it is possible to select one or more statistical indicators and display the most similar areas. The app features visually catchy similarity heatmaps.

Datasets: Eurostat

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Giuseppe Sollazzo
United Kingdom

 

 

Team FinLine

Description of app: The segment of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has been severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. As Europe sets out for economic recovery, the survival of SMEs is essential. Using a number of open data sources including EU open data, the FinLine app will help SMEs assess their financial viability and provide free customised advice for suitable grants and investment options. Also, it will provide a tool for building a community willing to share financial and technical advice as well as people’s skills during the post-COVID-19 recovery.

Datasets: GROW, EASME, Eurostat, ECB, REGIO (ESIF), TAXUD

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Ronnie Das
United Kingdom

 

 

Challenge 3:
A new push for European Democracy

EU Integrity Watch

Description of app: EU Integrity Watch is an online platform that enables citizens, civic society, academia and journalists to monitor the integrity of EU institutions. By providing accessible data-visualisation tools on EU lobbying and financial interests of MEPs, the platform has been instrumental in raising awareness of the safeguards against undue influence in the EU institutions. The proposed app seeks to enhance the platform by integrating EU datasets on public procurement. This will enable the cross-referencing of procurement awards notices with the EU Transparency Register, and automated visual comparison of information contained in procurement notices with award notices.

 

Datasets: SG, GROW

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Chiara Girardelli
Italy
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Raphaël Kergueno
France

 

 

Next Generation Democracy

Description of app: Next Generation Democracy wishes to increase the citizens´ engagement in the political debate by introducing the European Politician Future Readiness Index. The index comprises two elements: the crowdsourcing of themes and topics scored by an index and a subsequent AI analysis of meeting minutes and reports from all meetings in both the European Parliament and the European Commission. The AI engine combines the two outcomes to generate all politicians´ future-readiness index. Through the app, citizens can follow topics or single politicians, see trends and get alerts. This will increase transparency and enable citizens to engage directly with their politicians.

Datasets: EP, DG COMM

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Kristian Thorsted Madsen
Denmark
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Michael Jensen
Denmark

 

 

Shield

Description of app: Scroll Safe! Fake News Shield detects fake news by scanning sources for their credibility with the help of AI. The app is able to detect false profiles on social media and works as an ad blocker; it can provide the user with warnings or eliminate websites with a high risk of credibility. The application will be available for Android and IOS and it will be installation-ready for Facebook and other social media and as an extension in the web browser (e.g. Google AddOn).

Datasets: European Broadcasting Union (EBU), DG COMM, EDP

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Alexandru Teodorov
Romania
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Laurentiu Neagu
Romania
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Alexandra Dinu
Romania
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Ancuta Nicu
Romania

 

 

Challenge 4:
A Europe fit for the digital age

2 Think

Description of app: Citizen Journey is a playful app filled with EU knowledge to help young people understand the impact of EU programs. The app has three modes to discover data: Start Journey, Explore Location and Trivia. With the help of mentors, the user makes data correlations from several points of view (demographical, geographical, green and economical). Measuring data in a playful way helps the user understand how the EU policies seek to ensure social inclusion, fight poverty or any form of discrimination, support research and technological development, and drive innovation and a green economy.

Datasets: REGIO (ESIF), EEA, Eurostat

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Roberto Capuano
Italy
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Loana Elisabeta Maier
Italy
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Maria Di Muro
Italy
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Claudiu Adrian Furcoi
Italy

 

 

Digital Forest Dryads of Copernicus

Description of app: Over 12 million cubic meters of wood (five million wooden trucks) have been stolen from Romania's forests since 1989. For every tree cut legally (sick/accidental/compromised/decaying/infestation/dead), another healthy tree is cut illegally. Digital Dryads protect the forests from illegal logging using state-of-the-art satellite imagery, spectral analysis, and machine learning.

Datasets: DEFIS, Copernicus, EUMETSAT, SANTE, Eurostat, Google Earth data catalogue, Earth on Amazon Web Services

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Razvan Pistolea
Romania
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Adnan Temur
Romania
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Andrei Mocanu
Romania
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Sergiu Eftimie
Romania

 

 

Government APIs for Digital Ecosystems in the European Union

Description of app: The European Union seeks to create opportunities for governments, industry, research, and community groups to work in partnership to build new products and services using data as a core component of their value chains. To build commercial applications or citizen-facing apps, external stakeholders need to be sure that government APIs are well maintained. The proposed dashboard will, says the team, help to determine the value of government APIs.

Datasets: JRC, EU ODP

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Mark Boyd
Spain
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Adrienne Fanning
Australia
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Phuong Pham
Vietnam
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Aaron Rochman
United States of America

 

 

 

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Rules

OUTLINE

What is EU Datathon?

The Publications Office of the European Union organises in close collaboration with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy the EU Datathon 2020.

EU Datathon is a competition intended to highlight the potential of linking EU data and regional data as well as to promote innovation and digital transformation opportunities by using open data.

Participants are invited to develop applications addressing the four challenges.

The EU Datathon will help citizens to engage and innovate presenting new ideas to the EU institutions. As indicated in the Conference of Future of Europe, the hackathons are one of the initiatives that should encourage people to take part in the policy-making.

The EU Datathon is aligned with the newly released European strategy for data of the European Commission.

The competition is supported by Horizon 2020 – the EU Research and Innovation programme and the European Commission ISA² programme (Interoperability solutions for public administrations, businesses and citizens).

The partners of the EU Datathon 2020 are:

  • Digital Luxembourg
  • Eurofound
  • European Asylum Support Office
  • European Central Bank
  • European Court of Auditors
  • European Commission – Directorate-General for Communications
  • European Commission – Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
  • European Commission – Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space
  • European Commission – Directorate-General for Energy
  • European Commission – Directorate-General for Informatics
  • European Commission – Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
  • European Commission – Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
  • European Commission – Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
  • European Commission – Eurostat
  • European Commission – Joint Research Centre
  • European Commission – Representation of Belgium
  • European Commission – Representation of Luxembourg
  • European Commission – Secretariat-General
  • European Environment Agency
  • European Investment Bank
  • European Parliament
  • European Patent Office
  • European Union Intellectual Property Office
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  • Government of Luxembourg
  • Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • Province of Vienna Statistics Department
  • The World Bank

 

What are the objectives?

  • To find new suitable approaches and solutions through the use of open data to an identified need or problem.
  • To produce innovative applications, including visualisations.
  • To showcase opportunities for a concrete business model, a social enterprise, or a reusability concept for the open data community.
  • To stimulate the use of open data released by public administrations.

The result should be a new, original mobile or web application, visualisation or demonstration of applying data science by linking datasets for generating new insights. Explanatory webinars will be set up and announced on the website for participants to obtain more information on the features and datasets of the challenges.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

The rules are based on Article 206 and 207 of the financial regulation. The competition will respect the principles of transparency and equal treatment.

  • The EU Datathon 2020 is open worldwide to anyone who is interested in creating a profit or non-profit (social) business model through data exploration and/or in creating open data prototype products based on open and public data.
  • A team can be composed of one or more individuals (up to 4), one or more companies or one or more other legal entities.
  • Finalists from previous EU Datathons can only participate with a new project for this year’s competition. The EU Datathon 2020 is not open to staff working in the EU institutions, agencies, bodies and partnering organisations.

 

WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES?

The EU Datathon 2020 consists of four challenges which are based on the von der Leyen Commission Priorities. Each challenge is organised as a separate competition of equal importance, under the umbrella of the EU Datathon competition (separate registration, shortlisted teams, presentations and prizes).

The competition is taking place within the annual ‘European Week of Regions and Cities’, and therefore it has a special focus on regional and local level.

Teams may participate in any or all of the following challenges but with only one proposal per challenge.

Challenge 1: ‘A European Green Deal’

 

Challenge 2: ‘An economy that works for people’

 

Challenge 3: ‘A new push for European democracy’

 

Challenge 4: ‘A Europe fit for the digital age’

EVALUATION PROCESS

Phase 1 — Preselection

Preselection will take place after the deadline of the submission of project descriptions.

Project descriptions within each challenge will be evaluated by a preselection jury that shall be composed of experts from within the EU institutions and agencies.

During this phase, the jury will assess each submitted project description against the preselection award criteria (see table below). For each challenge, a maximum of three teams having scored the highest number of points will be preselected. All teams will be notified about the results of the preselection for the challenge they took part in.

 

  Preselection award criterion Maximum number of points
1

Relevance

  • Relevance to the addressed EU Datathon 2020 challenge.
  • Relevance to digital transformation in Europe.
  • Relevance of proposed data sources.
  • Relevance to a specific problem or need.
  • Potential and creativity of the proposed solution.
50

 

Phase 2 — Final selection

The Publications Office will offer to the teams rehearsals for the presentations. The preselected teams should fill-in a dedicated feedback report on the datasets they used and submit it with the final app.

The preselected teams (three per challenge) will be invited to develop their applications. The final applications within each challenge will be evaluated on 15 October 2020 during the final event by one jury, which will be composed of at least five experts from within and outside the EU institutions and agencies.

These set of rules will provide a level playing field to all the competitors by taking the maturity of the solution before submitting into account.

Shortlisted teams that do not deliver a developed app will not be entitled to continue participating in the final stage of the competition. They cannot claim any prize award.

 

  Final award criteria Maximum number of points
1

Relevance

  • Relevance to the addressed EU Datathon 2020 challenge.
  • Relevance to digital transformation in Europe.
  • Relevance of proposed data sources
  • Relevance to a specific problem or need.
  • Potential and creativity of the proposed solution.
30
2

Open data reuse

  • Economic and social potential.
  • Novelty.
  • Scalability.
  • Sustainability plan.
30
3

Solution proposed

  • Clear problem definition.
  • Data science methodology.
  • Maturity of the product (readiness of the application and usability).
  • Proposed solution offers continuous benefits for an identified target group of users or customers.
  • Share-ability of visualisations/dashboards or insights.
30
4

Excellence

  • Capacity to implement the project plan.
  • Interoperability to other data sources (linking potential).
10
 

Total

100

COMPETITION TIMELINE

Step 1— Launch of competition

The competition is published on the EU Datathon 2020 website of the Publications Office and the Funding & Tenders Portal on 19 February 2020.

The competition starts with explanatory webinars addressing the different challenges that will allow potential participants to learn more about the available datasets.

Step 2 — Deadline to submit proposals

Teams should register their project descriptions here by 3 May 2020 at 23:59:59.

Step 3 — Shortlisted teams announced

The project descriptions are evaluated by the jury of the preselection phase. All participating teams will be notified about the results within their challenge via email by 29 May 2020 at the latest.

Step 4 — Final selection of winning apps

The preselected teams (represented by a maximum of two members) will be invited to the European Week of Regions and Cities in ‘The Square’ in Brussels, which will include participation in three compulsory days:

  • 13-14 October 2020: Present the app to the public in an exhibition stand;
  • 15 October 2020: Final conference with presentations and live demonstrations of the apps by the teams followed by Q&A from the audience. The winners will be announced at the end of the day.

 

PRIZES

The total award fund for the competition amounts to EUR 100 000 (EUR 25 000 for each challenge) and will be split in the following order for each challenge.

 

Place Prize money
1 EUR 12 000
2 EUR 8 000
3 EUR 5 000

 

Shortlisted teams are entitled to the reimbursement of travel and accommodation expenses incurred in relation to the conference provided that they have been purchased on the day of the notification of the shortlisted teams at the earliest. No other costs will be reimbursed. Further details will be sent via e-mail.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Clarifications

Participants may request any clarification on the competition up to five (5) working days before the deadline for the submission of project descriptions.

Requests for clarification should be submitted in writing to the following email address: op-datathon@publications.europa.eu.

All questions and answers will be published on the EU Datathon 2020 website.

 

Payment of awards

The payments of awards are subject to the registration of the winners in the legal entity (LEF) and bank account file (BAF) database of the European Commission. For this purpose, after being notified of the award, winners are required to provide the necessary supporting documents duly signed and stamped where necessary. Additional information as well as the forms for the creation of the LEF/BAF can be downloaded here.

The Publications Office and its partners take no responsibility regarding the distribution of the awards within the teams.

 

Cancellation of the competition

The Publications Office reserves the right to cancel the competition before the final conference without any obligation to indemnify the teams.

 

Participation in other competitions

The teams must inform the Publications Office when submitting their proposal if their application has participated or will participate in other competitions. Multiple award of prize for the same application is not allowed.

 

Sole liability of the teams

Neither the Publications Office nor the partners may be held responsible for any claim relating to the activities carried out by teams in the framework of the competition.

Neither the Publications Office nor the partners shall be held liable for any damages caused or sustained by any of the teams, including any damages caused to third parties as a consequence of or during the implementation of the activities related to the competition.

 

Intellectual property and copyright

In case teams use pre-existing material (such as open source) for their applications, they must guarantee that they have obtained all the necessary authorisations in order for such material to be used according to the rules described above.

The project description (short description of the idea) submitted for the preselection will remain the property of the teams (authors) and will not be made public (or disclosed), but will be accessible to the jury.

The final proposals submitted for the final selection will remain the property of the authors, but will be accessible to the jury and to all teams at the final conference. The EU institutions, agencies and bodies will be allowed to mention, describe and promote on their channels (websites, social media, press releases, etc.) the winning applications with due reference to the author without any further economic compensation.

 

Publicity

The winning applications will be featured in the ‘Applications’ section of the EU Open Data Portal. Where appropriate, the name and copyright of the authors will be mentioned.

Teams may, upon written request, gain access to their personal data and correct any information that is inaccurate or incomplete. They should address any questions regarding the processing of their personal data to the Publications Office via the contact e-mail announced in the rules of the competition. The teams may, at any time, lodge a complaint against the processing of their personal data with the European Data Protection Supervisor. On the EU Datathon website the Publications Office will publish the name of the winning teams and of their members, their locality, the prize amount and the nature and purpose of their applications. Participants may request that the Publications Office waive such a publication if disclosure risks threatening their security and safety or if it could harm their commercial interest.

 

Sole liability of the teams

Neither the Publications Office nor the partners may be held responsible for any claim relating to the activities carried out by teams in the framework of the competition. Neither the Publications Office nor the partners shall be held liable for any damages caused or sustained by any of the teams, including any damages caused to third parties as a consequence of or during the implementation of the activities related to the competition.

 

Applicable law and competent jurisdiction

The competition is governed by the applicable European Union law complemented, where necessary, by the law of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The General Court or, on appeal, the Court of Justice of the European Union, shall have sole jurisdiction to hear any dispute between the EU and any team concerning the interpretation, entry or validity of the rules of this competition if such a dispute cannot be settled amicably.

 

Exclusion criteria and administrative sanctions

By submitting the project description teams declare that they are not in one of the situations mentioned in Article 136(1) of the Financial Regulation. Teams who are in any of those situations or fall into other categories indicated in Article 141 of the Financial Regulation shall be rejected from participating and from being awarded a prize under the present competition. The rejection shall be without prejudice to the decision of exclusion from participating in award procedures governed by the Financial Regulation and application of financial penalties (Articles 136-140 of the Financial Regulation).

 

Early Detection and Exclusion System

In case the participants are in one of the exclusion situations as stated above, personal data on them may be registered in the Early Detection and Exclusion System (EDES) in line with the Articles 135, 142, 143 and 144 of the Financial Regulation. For more information, see the privacy statement for EDES.

 

Suspension of the competition, cancellation of the award and reduction of prize

Where the award procedure has been subject to irregularities or fraud, the Publications Office applies the measures referred to in Article 131 of the Financial Regulation.

 

Checks, audits and investigations

The winning teams accept checks, audits and investigations by the European Commission, the European Anti-Fraud Office, the Court of Auditors and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in relation to the competition and the prize received.

 

 

 

 

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