BELLA Hackathon: Copernicus Innovation Development
Empowering the use of Copernicus data in Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe
The BELLA Hackathon: Copernicus Innovation Development will be the first bicontinental innovation activity that seeks to enhance and make visible the work of research and development groups from universities, organizations and companies in Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe and to provide innovative and creative solutions to the challenges posed in the two winning concept notes of the Ideathon:
Satellite Data Interpreter - SADAI (SAD - Decision Support System + AI - Artificial Intelligence)
The proposal is to develop a technology accessible to citizens that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to interpret and process complex data and translate them into an understandable natural language. To achieve this deep learning algorithms and natural language processing (NLP), different techniques will be used.
Platform for visualizing and interpreting climate data to support family farming in Latin American countries
Development of a platform for monitoring and predicting agroclimate in Latin American countries, for use by small and medium farmers to support the planning and management of food systems that are resilient to climate change in the context of strengthening family agriculture.
Methodology
The registered groups will select one of the challenges proposed for this hackathon and will work on the innovative development of this challenge, the final result per group will be a final product that will evidence the development of the challenge and the possible implementation.
The evaluation of the final products will be in charge of expert judges in the topics worked on who will select the best 3 developments at the end of the challenge.
The hackathon will take place during 1 month from July 4th to July 31st, it will be virtual and will have synchronous and asynchronous sessions that will allow us to develop an agenda with training and mentoring spaces for the participants and spaces for the construction of the final products, as well as a simultaneous activity at the time of the opening and closing. The languages for the hackathon will be English and Spanish.
Registration will be open from June 1 and will close on June 23 at https://eventos.redclara.net/event/1134/overview
Participants
Benefits
- Accompaniment of experts in the development process of each group
- Training and skills development
- Visualization of the work and experience of the group participants
- Articulation with local and regional actors
Impact
- Promote capacity building in Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe.
- Enhance the use and capture of Copernicus data for the solution of needs resulting from climate change.
- Make the capabilities of researchers and scientists in the regions visible.
- Strengthen innovation.
- Articulate efforts between Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe.
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Agenda (Hora GMT)
- June 1 to 23: Registration
- June 28: Preliminary Session
- July 4: Opening Session
- July 5: Conference
- July 6-7: Workgroup Sessions
- July 10: Workgroups Sessions
- July 11: Conference
- July 12-14: Workgroup Sessions
- July 17-18: Mentoring
- July 19: Conference
- July 20-21: Mentoring
- July 24-26: Workgroup Sessions
- July 27-28: Mentoring
- July 29: Registration of the Final Products
- July 31 - August 3: Evaluation
- August 4: Closing Session (Virtual)
14:00 – 16:00: Espaço de Trabalho em Grupos (assíncrono)
16:00 – 17:00: Palestra Dia 2 (síncrona)
17:00 – 19:00: Espaço de Trabalho em Grupos (assíncrono)
19:00 – 19:30: Envio e registro das notas conceituais (assíncrono)
- Asynchronic Work
- 14:00 to 16:00 GMT: Mentoring
- 16:00 GMT: Asynchronous work
- Asynchronous work
Background
During March 21st and 22nd, 2023, RedCLARA with the support of GÉANT, carried out the first Ideathon as a Copernicus innovation challenge between Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe.
The result we sought with the Ideathon was to pose a creative and innovative response to the following general problems:
- Processing: the large amount of data produced by the Copernicus Program requires specific strategies for processing the data. What kind of processing strategies, computational infrastructure and/or computational paradigm can be used to make that processing more efficient and faster?
- Artificial Intelligence (AI): How and with what techniques can AI reduce processing times and help find patterns that are useful for effective decision making.
- Data access: What type of data architecture or cloud can contribute to faster and more efficient data access.
- Distribution: How to efficiently get information to decision makers who need it.
The results we obtained with this successful innovation activity are the following:
- 82 registered participants
- 17 countries from Latin America and the Caribbean, 2 countries from Europe
- 8 working groups
- 8 concept notes produced
- 4 winning concept notes
- 3 speakers
- 7 judges
- 4 mentors
For further information, please visite BELLA Ideathon: Copernicus innovation challenge
