Join the Arqus Hackathon Series 2024!
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16 Jul 2024Are you ready to tackle pressing challenges and foster a culture of innovation and collaboration? Join the Arqus Hackathon Series, where creativity meets purpose. Organized by the Arqus Living Lab on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation at the University of Graz in cooperation with the Field of Excellence COLIBRI, this series welcomes all Arqus university members, including academic staff, administrative staff and students.
Designed to foster a culture of innovation and collaboration, the Hackathon Series aims to address pressing challenges facing Arqus institutions. Engaging with these challenges is vital for the Alliance network’s growth and impact.
We will run two hackathons:
Each Hackathon will provide a set of challenges. The challenges will be defined in collaboration with the representatives of the different participating universities. Participants will get a chance to view the challenges, propose refinements or propose their challenges. Participants will choose their favorite challenge to be working with. The following challenges are proposed for the hackathons and feedback is welcomed for adaptations and additional suggestions:
Each hackathon spans over four weeks, structured as follows:
The hackathon will be supported through Moodle as a platform to house all information and resources for participants and a virtual world that will be used for the actual time spent on working on the hackathon challenge.
How to Register
Please register by sending an email to andrea.holzer@uni-graz.at. More information can be found here: Hackathon information sheet
All participants will receive a certificate at the end of the hackathon, detailing:
Certificates may be eligible at local University for students’ cross crediting (i.e., electives), for the pedagogical training of academic staff, or for general staff training. Please check with your local University.