List of hackathons in Nijmegen, Netherlands in 2016

Professionals and students in open data, hacking, coding and design! Interested in how technology can help improve public health? GGD Hart van Brabant invites you to participate in The Big Date, and event where you'll collaborate to conceive and prototype a state-of-the-art public health application for tomorrow? Working with like-minded techies and health professionals, you'll be challenged to develop innovative ways to leverage open data and digital information to change the way the public lives, works and plays.

Developers and designers in and near Essen! Want to help ThyssenKrupp bring innovative, new ideas to their website and intranet? If you're over 18 years old and know Angular2, node.js, and Konami Code, then sign up and participate in # Hack4tk - The hHackathon at ThyssenKrupp. You'll collaborate in a team with like-minded individuals to create awesome new capabilities for ThyssenKrupp's digital state-of-the-art platform. After 24 hours, you'll present your working project to a judging panel of experts.

Healthcare and life sciences developers and professionals! Interested in the possibilities of semantic web technology for healthcare and life sciences? SWAT4HCLS invites you to sign up and participate in SWAT4HCLS 2016 (Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences). The event agenda includes tutorials, a conference, and a hackathon. Participate in the hackathon and develop innovative technology solutions to the following challenges: »Innovative uses of Wikidata in the life science & health section of the semantic web. »Clinical interpretation of Variants in Cancer »Applying shape expressions on Wikidata subsets. »Model a novel open life science/health resource in Wikidata.

Neuroscientists, education scientists, teachers, programmers, and designers! Are you interested in the educational potential of apps and games? Come and participate in the Donders Hackathon 2016. You'll collaborate with like-minded professionals to develop innovative software solutions for education based on fundamental neuroscience knowledge. Showcase your skills and understanding to build a state-of-art educational app or tool.

Connect. Collaborate. Create. Today’s challenges are too complex to be solved by any individual person or nation. The solutions of the future will require the creativity and innovation of us all, because only by working together will we be able to create a better world. This is the challenge that has been set for the upcoming Accenture Digital Hackathon; which will go beyond The Netherlands to also involve the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Czech Republic and Turkey. It is to be Accenture’s first connected hackathon! An exceptional opportunity to come together with other talents in a challenge of international scope, sharing ideas and experimenting with the latest technologies and innovations. What is in it for me? Apart from working together in a dynamic and vibrant setting and at the intersection of business and technology, winning teams will be awarded with the following prizes: 1st place team: 1 voucher in the amount of € 500 for each team member 2nd place team: 1 voucher in the amount of € 300 for each team member 3rd place team: 1 voucher in the amount of € 200 for each team member The top three teams overall will also receive the following prizes: 1st place team: 1 voucher in the amount of € 1000 for each team member to be used at Amazon 2nd place team: 1 voucher in the amount of € 600 for each team member to be used at Amazon 3rd place team: 1 voucher in the amount of € 400 for each team member to be used at Amazon During the Hackathon, free food, beverages and a goodie bag will be distributed as well! Background and theme The main theme of the 24-hour hackathon is, “Connect, Collaborate, Create.” Participants will be asked to use digital technologies in creative, innovative ways to benefit people and the environment with a view to offering solutions in a range of fields. The goal of this challenge is to create prototypes of products, services and ideas that are able to generate social and economic value for the community by hacking common objects and using open data, open-source libraries, public APIs, frameworks for fast prototyping and software development, microcontrollers, sensors, and other hardware (e.g. 3D printers, beacons, wearables, etc.). Sub-Themes of the hackathon are Opportunity, Mobility and Sustainability. Participation and teams Participation is entirely free of charge and open to both individuals and teams of between 3 to 5 people. The teams will have 4 different roles: Developer; Designer; Marketing Specialist; Data Analyst / Data Scientist. If you sign up as a full team, please reach out to amsterdam.hackathon@accenture.com. Agenda and program Calendar Application: October 15th, 2016 – November 22nd, 2016 Evaluation of applications: November 15-22nd, 2016 Announcement of the Hackathon 2016 participants: November 18th, 2016 Check out www.accenture.nl/digitalhackathon for more Questions and Answers!

Interested in how robotics can help the elderly? Come and participate in the Hack for Active & Healthy Ageing. This event is a hackathon where multi-disciplinary “hackers” will collaborate to design and develop solutions that can prolong independent living, and improve the quality of home care for the elderly. You'll be able to test your prototype directly in 2-3 simulated elderly living areas equipped with sensors, devices, development kits and robots.

What is it: Creathon (a hackathon where not only software but also concepts, hardware or other products will be developed) Three days working on innovative ideas and solutions About cycle mobility in urban areas, in the broadest sense: from solutions based on data about bicycles untill solutions for cycle sheds, from smart bikes ’till smart traffic observance installations Based on existing (open) data, software and hardware Goal: Develop IT-driven products and/or services to improve liveability of our cities by leveraging Dutch cycling culture. Why should you join: Get ideas actual to live in prototypes and perhaps even a start-up Work together and exchange ideas with other participants Get coached by professionals The link with (open) data systems from partners (manufacturers, organisations and government) Completely arranged with overnight stay, eating and drinking, working together and relax together Professional jury, prize for the best team (500 euro) Challenge description Air polution, traffic congestion and obesity. Do you think they belong together?  …Yes, they all belong together and why? Because even more people live in urban areas where fresh air and space become rare and where people get less excited to move actively. Here are some facts: In Holland about 3,000 people die some weeks or months earlier because of air pollution according to RIVM. And in Europe about 95% of the citizens are exposed to too high values of polluted substances in the air. An average of 58% of the European population suffer with obesity (BMI >25) which will increase in 2030 up to 64%! In London, Cologne, Amsterdam and Brussels, drivers spend over 50 hours per year on the road to traffic congestion. This number is even higher in Utrecht, Manchester and Paris: 70 hours! It’s not only crowded in metropolitan areas, even the mid-sized cities recognize and feel the problems that are just described here above. We think that the Smart Urban Biking creathon can contribute to increase the liveablility from our cities and the side-towns. How? By using our cycle-culture smarter. It’s the most common form of transportation in The Netherlands. According to the Fietsersbond (cyclists’ union), 13.5 million Dutch citizens own at least one bicycle. They are used for 34% of all travel up to 7.5 kilometres. On average, a Dutch citizen makes 300 cycling trips each year, covering 878 kilometres. Can you improve our way of cycling even further, using creative (network) technology and open data? During the Creathon you could start by exploring the various ways we use our bicycle. How can you improve safety and comfort when cycling to work or school? Or add gaming elements to a cycling trip in order to improve the fitness of children or the elderly in a playful way? And how can you provide the semi-professional middle-aged bicycle racer with exactly the right information for an optimal long-distance training session? And don’t forget that the cargo bike is also an excellent and flexible conveyance to transport people and products from one place to another. You could also choose for a more technical approach. The thousands of bikes on the road, combined with the multitude of available sensor platforms, form one of the most detailed mobile sensor networks imaginable. In addition, cyclists and their (e-)bikes visit locations that are difficult to reach by car or drone. The resulting data-flows lead to all kinds of insights, which stimulate the development of surprising and innovative applications. The combination of data from cyclists, bicycles and sensors with open data sets, which are provided by the participating municipalities, enables the development of unexpected possibilities and applications. If you have a golden idea during this Creathon, you might solve a relevant problem in society and even launch a successful new start-up.

Manager, marketers, engineers, developers, hobbyists, artists! Interested in the economics behind digital media? Come and participate in the Redesigning the Paid Experience hackathon. Bring your expertise, skills and meet other participants from various sectors and disciplines. Work with like-minded individuals on innovative ideas to create reader willingness to pay for the work of digital media journalists.

Interested in education? Come and participate in the Hackathon: Education Data Scrutinized! Showcase your development skills! Create an innovative app using DUO's new API for education, to visualize education data in an understandable way! Show how pressing questions from parents, students, teachers and school administrators can be answered through access to the available open educational data. In what creative ways can the available data be presented so that the quality of education can be even better?

AI hackers! Are you competitive and do you like programming and artificial intelligence? Think you can build a winning, unbeatable robot? Then The Ultimate RoboCode Tournament is the event for you! Participate and demonstrate your creativity and technical expertise! You can work alone, but ideally, you will collaborate with one or more like-minded techie in teams of 2 to 3.