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Copernicus AtmosHack : Hack the Atmosphere

The Copernicus programme is searching for new and innovative data visualizations for academic purposes or for raising awareness around the atmospheric environment. Winning solutions will be invited to the Copernicus Accelerator.
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Overview

Copernicus AtmosHack is funded by the EU’s Copernicus Programme (http://www.copernicus.eu/), powered by Ultrahack and has been organised through a partnership of:

  • EUMETSAT
  • The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
  • The Finnish Meteorological Service (FMI)
  • University of Helsinki.

Your challenge is to create solutions that help people in their daily lives to reduce their exposure to pollutants and UV radiation. To solve this challenge, you are encouraged to use Copernicus atmospheric monitoring data. No constraints and many resources available.

The event will be held in the Finnish Meteorological Institute HQ (Erik Palménin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki).

Prize

  • Cash prizes: 5,000€
  • Copernicus start-up programme (All costs covered) for the winning team; value of 15,000€
  • Slush tickets for 2 winning teams (up to 2-3 people): www.slush.org
  • WEkEO platform free usage for one year for the winning team
  • Access to UN Climate Change Conference 10-14th December, Katowice, Poland, for the winning team
  • AtmosHack apparel for all participants
  • Total value of the prizes: 30,000€

Further details and resource links: https://ultrahack.org/atmoshack2018

Deadline for applications: 05th November 2018

Who can create a challenge?

  • If you want to publish a challenge on the NokiaPartners - Open communities and get support from the community to solve your problems, you first need to be registered on the platform. Then you need to contact the NokiaPartners - Open communities administrator in the Community section. They will create the challenge for you. Search for “admin” in the Community section, and click on “Nokia Admin” to contact and ask for your challenge to be created.

 

How do I submit an answer/proposal?

  • To contribute to a challenge, first open the challenge page, and then click on the "start proposal" button on the right-hand-side. A new page will appear with different text fields to fill in and attachments to include. You can also link to an existing project you have previously created on the platform. Once you have finished, click on submit.
  • If you save as draft, your submission will not be completed and will not be submitted to the challenge owner.

 

What happens once I submit?

  • Once you have submitted your proposal, your ‘Challenge Submission Form’ becomes accessible by the creator or the challenge, who can see and edit your proposal. Through the challenge page, only the owner of the challenge can see the different proposals submitted against his/her challenge. It is up to the challenge owner to inform participants about decisions and potential next steps.
  • To note, when you save a submission as draft, it is not submitted to the challenge owner.

 

Who can see my proposal?

  • The owner of the challenge, the submission review committee, and the NokiaPartners - Open communities Administrator team are the only ones who can see your proposed ideas and solutions to the challenge.

 

What happens if my proposal is successful?

  • For each challenge, submission review and selection process is different and the responsibility of the challenge owner. If your project is selected, the owner of the challenge will come back to you with further guidance on the next steps.

 

What happens if it is unsuccessful?

  • For each challenge, submission review and selection process is different and the responsibility of the challenge owner. If your project is not shortlisted, the owner of the challenge will inform you using the messaging features of NokiaPartners - Open communities. Your proposed ideas will then be removed/deleted from challenge submissions.