We are looking for students from the fields of agriculture, water management, software design or economics for the Agriculture in Africa Hackathon.

This competition is an opportunity to gain knowledge on a specific topic and to develop a practical and useful tool for further use. Products can be papers, project proposals or software applications. We don‘t set borders, but encourage you to be innovative.

We will kick-off the event on June 18th at 5 pm at BOKU in Peter Jordan Str. 82 (room to be announced). 

Preliminary programme:

• We will get to know each other at the kick-off event, explain the contents and rules. 

• You will be working between June and September independently (in thematic groups) to analyse the problem.

• We will meet again for an intensive 4-day training course (17-21 Sept.), where invited speakers will deliver their lectures and spend the afternoon with you in round-table discussions.

• In October-December, the thematic groups will develop a paper, a project proposal or a software.

• We will have a final presentation of your results in front of a jury with the award of a prize (December 2018)!

Register by June 15th at 5 pm (we have limited spaces) with a short email to Laura Essl:  laura.essl[at]boku.ac.at

More information about the project behind the Hackathon

The event is a CDR partner event by Francesco Vuolo and Laura Essl at the Institute of Surveying, Remote Sensing and Land Information.