ActInSpace 2022 in Turin, Italy
ActInSpace® is an international innovation contest aiming to inspire young people worldwide to meet challenges based on space technologies, data, patents and infrastructures. The competition aims to promote entrepreneurship, encourage the creation of start-ups and promote the use of space technologies and data acquired from space to improve the lives of citizens, increase employment and protect our planet.
The result of the collaboration between CNES (Centre national d'études spatiales, the French Space Agency), ESA (European Space Agency) and I3P (Innovative Companies Incubator of Politecnico di Torino), the Turin event is a unique opportunity for participants to work on creating business perspectives for the challenges using patents, technologies and satellite data made available by CNES, ESA and all the local partners to create new start-ups.
You and your team will have 24 hours to work on your project. The aim is to work on a solution answering one of the available challenges. At the end of the hackathon, you will have 7 to 10 minutes to pitch your project to the national jury that will evaluate your work, using ActInSpace criteria.
At the end of the pitch session, the national jury will award the best Italian team. Then, the national winning team will have access to the international finals. The winners of the ActInSpace contest will be awarded with amazing prizes!
ABOUT I3P
I3P is the Innovative Companies Incubator of Politecnico di Torino. Founded in 1999 with the mission of enhancing local entrepreneurship and support innovative start-ups with a high growth potential, in 2019 I3P has been awarded the title of Best Public Incubator in the world by UBI Global World Rankings of Incubators and Accelerators.
I3P is located within the Campus of Politecnico di Torino, in Corso Castelfidardo 30/A, 10129 Turin, Italy.
Event's organizers
About the event
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
ActInSpace is open to everyone: students, aerospace enthusiasts, start-ups working in the field and willing to challenge themselves, designers, marketers and people with communication skills. Your team needs to be multidisciplinary in order to succeed!
The suggested number of teammates is three to five: with less people you’d work alone, with more it would be too chaotic.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
You and your team will have 24 hours to work on your project. The aim is to work on a solution answering one of the challenges available on the ActInSpace official website.
All the challenges are based on high-level technologies, which nevertheless are easy to re-use because they have been selected due to their potential for commercial applications.
At the end of the hackathon, you will have 7 to 10 minutes to pitch your project to the national jury that will evaluate your work, using ActInSpace criteria.
REGISTRATION
The participation to the hackathon is free, you just have to register for the local event on the official website.
SCHEDULE
The hackathon will start on Friday, November 18 and last till Saturday, November 19, 2022. The full event schedule will be published soon.
Come back to this page in the next weeks to check for further updates!
