Results
84 applicants, 44 selected splitted into 10 teams, 19 stakeholders involved from the beginning
Italy & Malta
Duration
2 days
Overview
The Hack4Food initiative aimed at stimulating the development of innovative solutions, based on the application of digital technologies, to tackle the most crucial issues that have emerged in the global pandemic in the Emilia-Romagna agri-food sector. The hackathon focused on ideas to respond to three challenges faced today by the sector. The challenges in question will be:
- Efficiency, transparency, traceability of food supply chains for safe and quality foods
- Prevention of waste in the agri-food chain
- Management of food surpluses for the benefit of the most fragile sections of the population.
List of ideas that was worked on
Proposals covered topics such as training for small farm holders, low-cost precision agriculture using machinery and robotics, open-source machine learning or urban agriculture. The challenges focus on
– Efficiency, transparency, traceability of food supply chains for safe and quality foods
– Prevention of waste in the agri-food chain
– Management of food surpluses for the benefit of the most fragile sections of the population.
Winners
Prizes
01
- € 5,000 as a contribution for the development of the project idea;
- 1 month of access to Bi-Rex coworking for the whole team (4-5 accesses) with the possibility of using infrastructures such as digital resources (VMs, IoT platforms, modeling software ...) to support the development of the idea;
- consulting for business creation, in particular legal and labor law services and support for identifying opportunities for access to grants and subsidized finance for the development of innovation;
- presentation of the project as part of a public initiative organized by one or more partners;
- matching activities with companies, technological partners, research organizations and other subjects potentially interested in the implementation / use and / or adoption of the developed solutions
Hackathon
Organised by Innovacoop (DIH) as lead partner of the project, CC - Bi-Rex and FFI as partners.
H4F
SQUISEAT
Squiseat was selected as the winning project. This project consists of an online shopping platform, that allows restaurants or supermarkets to sell leftovers or surplus at a discount price, thus avoiding food waste. One original feature is the possibility to book in advance for a restaurant, which helps cooks to prepare the exact number of meals needed and help reduce food waste at the source. These requests can be collected and used to design better forecasts.
As the winning project for this challenge, they received a cash prize of € 5,000 as a contribution for the development of the project idea; 1 month of access to Bi-Rex coworking for the whole team (4-5 accesses) with the possibility of using infrastructures such as digital resources (VMs, IoT platforms, modelling software ...) to support the development of the idea among other prizes. The hackathon was an important step for Squiseat to develop its network, helping the project to reach out to investment funds and big players in logistics.
