Take part in #EUDatathon 2022
This year´s edition of EU Datathon, the annual open data competition,
was launched on 7 February. This brings a chance for open data
enthusiasts and application developers from around the world to
demonstrate the potential of open data, get international visibility
for their innovative ideas and compete for their share of the total
prize fund of €200.000 and the Public Choice Award.

How can you participate? It´s simple! Propose an idea for an
application that links and uses open datasets to address one of the
four challenges:

 	* Challenge 1: ‘The European Green Deal’ 
 	* Challenge 2: ‘Transparency in public procurement’
 	* Challenge 3: ‘EU public procurement opportunities for young
people’
 	* Challenge 4: ‘A Europe fit for the digital age’ 

The key condition for a successful submission is that at least one of
the datasets used to develop your application comes from the thousands
of datasets made available on data.europa.eu
[https://data.europa.eu/en]. If you opt for challenges 2 or 3, make
sure to use at least one dataset published by the EU Tenders
Electronic Daily (TED).

On top of that, your application is expected to make an innovative
contribution to important goals of the European Union, and showcase
opportunities for concrete business models or social enterprises. To
jog your imagination, explore the winning ideas from the previous
editions of the competition. In 2020, team FinLine from the United
Kingdom impressed both the jury and the public with an application
designed to provide small and medium-sized businesses with free
customised advice for suitable grants and investment options to
overcome difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The application
scooped first place in its challenge, ‘An economy that works for
people’, and also won the Public Choice Award. In 2021, the team of
ITER IDEA from Italy repeated the same double success with an
application facilitating women´s professional mobility in Europe. For
details about all winning ideas, visit the EU Datathon website
[https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eudatathon].

The teams shortlisted for this year´s final will receive an offer of
support during the design phase and after the competition. The
cooperation with the finalists includes invitations to open data
events and webinars where the teams can meet data providers, get
additional publicity for their projects and network.

Submit your idea by 31 MARCH. For detailed information, see the rules
of the competition [https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eudatathon#rules].

EU Datathon 2022 is organised by the Publications Office of the
European Union and contributes to the European Year of Youth 2022
[https://europa.eu/youth/year-of-youth_en] that features events and
activities dedicated to young people all around Europe.

To find out more, visit the EU Datathon website
[https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eudatathon] and follow us on
[https://twitter.com/EU_opendata] Twitter
[https://twitter.com/EU_opendata], Facebook
[https://www.facebook.com/data.europa.eu] and LinkedIn
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/publications-office-of-the-european-union],
with the hashtag #EUDatathon.

Publication Date/Time
2022-02-09T14:00:00+00:00
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