Call for Applications: Urban Mobility Hackathon

Why Apply?

• Networking
  • The hackathon brings together the regional mobility community. Apply to find partners, leading mentors from tech and smart city companies, municipalities and make industry connections. Get a chance to link and build with representatives from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).
• Growth
  • The hackathon warms you up for the Urban Mobility incubator program in spring 2024! Get first idea validation during the hackathon and use it to apply to the incubation programme.
• Prizes
  • The prize pool this year is 10 000 Eur
• A chance to pilot solutions
  • To the most successful teams Riga City Council offers to assign a point of contact within the City Council and a chance to pilot team’s solution in one of Riga’s living labs.

Challenges

• Logistics
  • Last mile delivery solutions
  • Consolidation transshipment nodes, transshipment centers, micro hubs in the city
  • Drone application and noise reduction solutions
• Energy & electric charging
  • Renewable energy sources in the charging infrastructure
  • Electric charging infrastructure (including how to effectively deal with inaccurate parking of vehicles in electric car charging stations)
  • Equipping public transport infrastructure (especially public transportation stops) and vehicles with renewable energy
• 5G
  • Autonomous vehicles – infrastructure, regulation
  • Involvement of drones in the urban mobility system – how to promote public acceptance of the use of drones.
• Climate
  • CO2 calculation methodology to understand the contribution of mobility (and other areas) to the city.
  • CO2 monitoring
  • CO2 predictions and analytics
• LMT Challenges
• LMT is a telecom operator based out of Northern Europe focused on empowering society through mobile technologies.
  • Sensors in the city infrastructure
    • The goal – to understand what is happening in real time city traffic. The LMT prize will go to the team that demonstrates innovative ideas related to the city infrastructure sensors or to the team that can show examples for adaptation of existing sensors to obtain data for transport monitoring or solutions that will help society.
  • Data protection and video surveillance
    • During the hackathon, LMT invites you to create a solution that provides reliable images from urban environments. This solution must guarantee that the people and vehicles in these images can’t be identified. Some solutions could even insert fake people and vehicles into real city images.

Prizes

• 1st Place: 3 000 €
• 2nd Place: 2 000 €
• 3rd Place: 1 000 €
• Top 3 most promising solutions will be awarded monetary prizes to aid further solution development!
• LMT prizes
  • LMT Challenge 1: 2 000 €
  • LMT Challenge 2: 2 000 €

Who can apply?

• The hackathon is open to everyone who has an idea or wants to become a part of one, but especially targeted to participants from Baltic states who are interested in sustainability, technology and innovation. If you have an interesting mobility project idea or would like to work on someone’s idea within the scope of the challenges proposed, then definitely apply. The primary language of the hackathon is English.
• They are open to participants with a wide range of skills. The key attribute here is “motivation to act”. Specifically, they are looking for sustainability enthusiasts, innovators, engineers, programmers, data geeks, students, scientists and designers. The work will be done in teams, combining participants with various skill sets.
• You can register to the hackathon and browse other participant ideas on Hacktribe and join the one that interests you the most.

For more information, visit EIT Urban Mobility.