Thank you for participating in the Sustainability Hackathon 2017!
We are grateful for your participation in the Sustainability Hackathon 2017 and helped make this event so successful! Our aim was to create an inspirational and productive day where academia, the private sector and local actors worked together for a sustainable future society, and we succeeded! If you like to know more about the 16 different teams competed at the event, you can watch their presentations on the YouTube channel called: Sustainability Hackathon.
Keep up the good work, and see you next time
The Sustainability Hackathon's coordination team
Winners of Sustainability Hackathon in Uppsala
Challenge 1: Future Sustainable Urban Planning:
1st Winner: Multidimensional - The solution includes a Demographic & Interactive data analysis tool
The presentation can be found HERE
Challenge 2: Social Sustainability through Integration
1st Winner : Upptegrate - Innovation to guarantee a fair recruitment process. The process is based on an pre-evaluation of the skills while keeping anonymous the candidates. The suitability of the candidates is calibrated by the employer, which will ponderate the importance of those different skills.
The presentation can be found HERE
Challenge 3: Bredden ,Upplands Väsby
1st Winner : Green Walls & roofs : The solutions includes Installation of green walls, green rooftops, parks and solar panels. A new pedestrian / cyclist crossing across the E4. Creating an open space between houses.
The presentation can be found HERE
Challenge 4: Green And Smart Uppsala
1st Winner : The magnificent 7: Greenifying through gamification of environmental behaviour. Reducing waste generation through smarter systems.
The presentation can be found HERE
Sustainability Hackathon Uppsala - (How all started)
- Are you interested in contributing to a more sustainable future?
- Would you like to meet new people & take your ideas off the ground?
- How about producing something really cool in one day?
- And finally, do you want to come closer to renown companies and individuals working with Sustainability?
Then take part in Sustainability Hackathon in Uppsala !
The Sustainabilty Hackathon event is organised by SWECO & the CleanTech Challenge team and will take place in the heart of Uppsala at SWECOS new office!
When: Friday 10th of February 2017
Where: Vaksalagatan 10, 2 tr, 753 20 Uppsala
Organisers: SWECO & CleanTech Challenge team
Few words about the Sustainability Hackathon organisers.
SWECO is Europe’s leading architecture and engineering consultancy, with sales of approximately SEK 16.0 billion (pro forma 2015). Sweco plans and designs the communities and cities of the future. The results of its work are sustainable buildings, efficient infrastructure and access to clean water. With 14,500 employees in Northern Europe, they offer their customers the right expertise for every project. They carry out projects in 70 countries annually throughout the world. The company is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB. Sweco's business model is decentralised and based on being close to its customers. Every customer should feel that Sweco’s consultants have an in-depth understanding of their business.
The future may seem remote to others, but it is very much present at Sweco.
Håll Ut is an independent organisation , started up as a spin off initiative from an academic team of Uppsala University. The role of Håll Ut is to act as an umbrella of different projects operating within the fields of Sustainable development, Clean Technologies, project management, education & Innovation.
Among others , HållUt got a big part of its reputation by its crowdsource innovation activities , one of which is the CleanTech Challenge innovation Competition which is a part of the global CleanTech Challenge network. The aim is to promote innovative ideas , match them with renown organisations in Sweden and abroad and help them grow at an international field.
'Sustainability Hackathon ' will be an open event for all those interested in discovering or learning about solutions which can assist to a more sustainable future!
Therefore if you :
- ...have an idea which you would like to work further with.
- ...gain new experiences and meet some renown organisations.
- ...are an organisation or company & want to meet competent teams.
- ...feel like working on something really cool &improve our futures society
Then the Sustainability Hackathon is the right event for you!
Apply already today as there will be limited places!
