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Single digital gateway hackathon - Barcelona edition!

The Barcelona single digital gateway hackathon is one of a series of high-level hackathons hosted in cities across Europe. Citizens, businesses, professionals, students, NGOs… any creative minds can put their heads together to shape the all-in-one digital gateway for smarter e-services and information anywhere in the EU.

date:  31/05/2019 - 01/06/2019

Based in Barcelona or happy to go there? Register to the Barcelona edition and compete to win the €5,000 reward with your team!

The Barcelona teams’ challenge is…

To develop a searchable products' database of EU countries and corresponding EU codes and rules where users can easily find out about all the rules that affect their product.

  • What is the best way of presenting the results to the user?
  • What is the best way of organising the rules to serve usability? Can a mechanism be devised that would automatically feed the national rules into the existing database of the European Commission?

When? 31 May and 1 June 2019

Where? Garage 48 @Makers of Barcelona, Carrer de Bailén 11, 08010 Barcelona

Programme? 24-hour hackathon + keynote presentations + opportunities to network and have fun + workshops + coffee, lunch breaks and mini-challenges + exhibits. The full programme will be published soon!

Practical information?

We provide … power, internet, refreshments/meals.

You provide … laptop and other necessary hardware/peripherals, personal items for comfort/hygiene, enthusiasm and energy!

Who to contact? Send questions to the hackathon team at info@gatewayhackathon.eu

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