The Food Challenge
The Food Challenge is an idea and prototyping workshop supported facilitated by the Open Food Facts project. Participants can explore food data and build tools to tackle their own or societal challenges within the food system.
The hackathon should bridge the knowledge of technical participants and non-technical participants via the topic food and food systems.
Participants can discover food-related challenges from their daily life, local or societal relevance and generate solutions on the Open Food Facts database and Open Source resources available through the project.
Teams of technical and non-technical participants come together, learn from each other and develop ideas or prototypes to tackle their personal or societal challenges within the local food-systems.
Kick off event on-site:
We meet on 15.11. from 10:00 - 13:00 for a physical kick-off event.
Afterwards you can work with your teams onsite, online or relocate at another location.
Your team has 24 hours to hand-in the solution canvas (1-page pdf) - LINK
The onsite address for this blended hackathon is: Fjordsgadesskole, Aarhus 8000 Denmark
Questions?
marius.grote@ambassadors.openfoodfacts.org
Who can join?
Specific conditions to apply
maximum 20 participants
15 - 16 NOV 2025
Register by 15 NOVLanguage(s) of the hackathon
English, Danish
Blended
Aarhus - Denmark
Data-Driven Education
Challenge and goals
- empowerment within conscious consumption and food choices based on open food data
- Peer learning and enablement of non-technical participants to understand data and digital prototypes.
- improved digital literacy by using resources from an open source project
- cross-disciplinary learning
- Usable tools for personal or locally societal needs
Expectations and requirements for the solutions and participants
- Co-working of "technical" and "less-technical" experienced participants.
- Learning from each others food preferences and consumption behaviors.
- Non-technical participants should be open to learn basic skills and apply them together with technical participants within the group.
- Technical participants are willing to share their knowledge and teach non-technical participants to enable participation of building the solution
Available Support
- technical support from technical educators that can help all groups and give an introduction to tools
- technical support from Open Food Facts volunteers helping with the use of the database and other resources
- organisational support
The official website and database: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/
For Danish products: https://dk.openfoodfacts.org/
Information and Video tutorials from "toolsforalle.dk" (Danish): https://toolsforalle.dk/project/openfoodfacts/
Presentation about the project (English): LINK
Presentation about the project (Danish): LINK
Blog for some inspiration: LINK