Turku Future Hackathon: Rules
The competition challenge
How would you or your team advance services, environments and/or smart mobility increasing the liveliness and attractiveness of the Campus and Science Park area in Turku?
Who can participate?
Any natural person or legal entity can take part in the competition (apart from such persons who have participated in the planning and organising of the competition). The competition entries are made preferably in groups but it is also possible to participate individually (=group consisting of one person only).
Each group may submit several entries if they wish. The competition entry can also be used to participate in other similar competitions. However, an entry that has been used to participate in another competition earlier cannot be submitted for hackathon.
Participating in the competition requires registration, participation of a person or a team member in the opening of the hackathon weekend on Friday and the presentation of the entry on Sunday. It is not possible to participate remotely via web. When the entry has been presented to the jury, changes can no longer be made.
Regarding competition entries
The entry must be related to advancing services that increase the liveliness and attractiveness of the Campus and Science Park area, interesting places to spend time in and smart mobility. The competition entry can be technical or non-technical. It can be a technically implemented application, an application plan, an idea, a concept or a business plan that has been documented in a way that it can be further presented.
The competition entry needs to somehow utilize the 3D city model of the Campus and Science Park area in Turku that has been opened for the competition. Elisa Oyj will provide the contestants ThingWorx platform that can be used if necessary. It is possible to access the competition materials (data, interfaces and other technology) and begin creating the competition entry already before the hackathon weekend. The competition materials have been linked on the website of the competition and they are introduced in hackathon on Friday. Using all open information sources for the competition is allowed.
Support during the competition
The contestants have an opportunity to utilise expertise of different parties in hackathon. Turku Science Park experts, a representative of the Campus and Science Park key project, experts of the Turku implementations of the Six City Strategy open data key project, an urban planning expert, a GI expert, a 3D city model expert and representatives of Elisa will be available in accordance with a separate schedule.
After the hackathon weekend, the winner has an opportunity to discuss further development of their work with the beforementioned experts until the pitching event 7th of December 2017.
Evaluation of competition entries
The jury of the competition will evaluate the competition entries that have been given and presented to the jury on 1st of October 2017 using the following criteria:
- How the idea / solution responds to the challenge
- The innovativeness / novelty value of the entry
- Good usability and a customer oriented implementation
- Good business potential and scalability of the solution
- Creative combining and utilisation of information sources
Depending on the quality and content of the competition entries, the jury holds the right to put emphasis on certain criteria in a way it sees fit, maintaining the respective comparability.
Competition time and the jury
Hackathon begins on 29th of September 2017 at 1 pm. in the facilities of SparkUp, address Tykistökatu 4, Turku.
The competition entries are presented for the jury from 1st of October at 1 pm onwards, after which the jury will select the best entries. The award sum of 8000 € will be distributed as the jury sees fit. The jury of the competition reserves the right to accept or reject all entries.
The winners have an opportunity to present their solution in the opening of the Visitor and Innovation Centre on 7th of December 2017.
Rights and taxation
The authors of the competition entries will hold the rights to their work.
The award sums are taxable earned income for their recipients. The recipient of the award is responsible for paying the tax related to the award. The award sum must be notified using a pre-completed tax return.
The organiser of the competition reserves the right to make changes to the rules. These will be notified on the website of the hackathon.