The Food Challenge
The hackathon should bridge the knowledge of technical participants and non-technical participants via the topic food and food systems. Participants should discover a challenge from their daily life, research or other perspectives and build solutions based 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.
Questions?
marius.grote@ambassadors.openfoodfacts.org
Who can join?
University students
Teachers and/or educators
Researchers
Innovators
Digital education enthusiasts
08 - 09 NOV 2025
Register by 01 NOVLanguage(s) of the hackathon
English, Danish
Blended
Mejlgade 53 1 Sal, Aarhus 8000 Denmark - Denmark
Category:
Data-Driven Education
Challenge and goals
- 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
- empowerment within conscious consumption and food choices
- Usable tools for personal or locally societal needs
Expectations and requirements for the solutions and participants
- Similar number of technical and non-technical participants.
- 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
- Prepare a set of tools and resources as a starting point.
Available Support
- technical support from technical educators that can help all groups and give an introduction
- technical support from Open Food Facts volunteers concerning the database and other resources
- organisational support