About Digital Education Hack

What is DigiEduHack?

DigiEduHack aims at creating a Europe where citizens can learn, re-skill and adapt to our fast-paced, changing world. 

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Setting the challenge

Invite the people who matter to you: your students, teachers, educators and staff, partners from companies and start-ups or any other stakeholders you want to work with. Choose a specific digital education challenge that is relevant for you and engage your team in envisioning ideas and designing solutions for it.

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Coming up with solutions

On 3 October 2019, tap into your hackers’ creative minds and come up with solutions in an intense Hack. Get peer support and connect with amazing people working on similar challenges from all around Europe.

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Beyond the hackathon

The work doesn’t stop after the Hack. Play an active role to bring innovation in education and become part of a Europe-wide community envisioning the future of education in a digital age. In a final global award contest, the teams with the best solutions will be awarded 5000 euros each.

Why engage?

Together we can co-create the future of education.
Join us and solve your biggest digital education challenges. Become part of a global community and showcase your skills as a forerunner in digital education. We provide promotion and support.

How

The DigiEduHack is manifested in 24-hour hackathons, organised in multiple locations across the globe simultaneously. During the 24 hours, innovative participants team up envisioning ideas and designing solutions. Global mentors provide guidance. The best teams win a prize. 

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Who

The DigiEduHack is a global event engaging hosts, participants and sponsors in Europe and beyond. We have opened the registration for hosts - learn how to host a hackathon in your own country! 

Hosts

  • Schools
  • Universities
  • Other higher education institutions
  • Research organisations
  • Start-ups
  • Companies
  • NGOs

Participants

  • Students
  • Teachers and educators
  • Researchers
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Innovators
  • Other education enthusiasts

Want to host? Learn how

Partners

  • Media partners
  • Technology partners
  • Corporate sponsors

When

DigiEduHack takes place at the same time around the world in November.

March

Event registration opens
Host organisations working on defining the challenges and planning their event

May/June

Participant registration opens

November

Digital Education Hack

December

Final global award contest

Where

Online events
Offline events
Blended events
Plenty of
Cities
A lot
Countries
Many
Continents

Organise

How
  • Formulate a challenge based on the DigiEduHack Challenges.
  • Organize an event and invite your stakeholders to
    solve the challenge.
  • We will provide you with a guidebook, communication materials, online
    training and website space.
Why
  • Find innovative solutions to educational
    challenges.
  • Benefit from ideas of diverse education enthusiasts.
  • Engage your students or other stakeholders by
    co-creating solutions together.
  • Offer a challenge-based learning experience to your
    participants.
  • Become part of the DigiEduHack
    community.
What we offer
  • An extensive communications and marketing campaign
  • Visibility and outreach for your organization
  • Communications toolkit including:
    - A Hackathon Handbook covering all aspects of planning an event
    - Communications and marketing templates and materials
    - Brand identity and social media guidelines
    - Tools and templates for facilitation
  • Advisory forum and various inspirational content
  • Webinar training on:
    - How to formulate a hackathon challenge
    - How to find the right participants
    - How to use facilitation tools for designing innovative solutions
  • Further marketing and showcasing opportunities as all solutions will be shared online
  • A global award of 5 000 € for each winning team (three in total)

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