The face-to-face hackathon brought together 90 students and future entrepreneurs in six cities in France, Portugal and Spain.
The event was part of the promotional campaign for the second call of the SCAIRA start-up acceleration programme, which will start in May.
HACK4SCAIRA, a 24-hour hackathon competition organised by the beneficiaries of the SCAIRA project simultaneously in France, Portugal, and Spain as part of the second call of the acceleration programme, which will open in May, officially ended on Saturday, March 15, at 5 p.m.
The event, which kicked off on Friday 14 March at 13:30, brought together 90 students and future entrepreneurs in six cities in the three participating countries to work in teams with a common goal: to solve one of the two challenges proposed by partners Renault Group and Airbus Atlantic and convince the jury that their solution was the most suitable.
The challengue proposed by Airbus Atlantic was to implement an appropriate sorting system that would differentiate the chips into different classes of aluminium alloys after the machining stage; Renault Group, on the other hand, demanded a low-cost system that would enable the most accurate tracking possible, in terms of time and location, of all the parts it obtains for vehicle production. The 24-hour battle was marked by enthusiasm, perseverance and a high level of healthy competition.
From the outset, participants were challenged to come up with disruptive ideas that, with the support of mentors and experts from the aerospace and automotive sectors, were transformed into viable projects with real application potential in the field of mobility, energy efficiency and automation. These multidisciplinary teams gave their all in an enriching and creative environment, developing prototypes and production models that were presented and defended at the end of the competition in front of an international jury.
Towards the second round
The Tracebull team won the international challenge launched by Renault Group in Murcia, while the French team 404 came out on top in the Airbus Atlantic challenge in Toulouse. Both will benefit from a customised capacitation course to help them complete the registration process for the second SCAIRA competition. Local prizes (technical guided tours, entrepreneurship literature, tutorials, study material, merchandising, etc.) went to Realum (Murcia), DIEGOS (Valladolid), 404 (Toulouse), InovProj (Coimbra), Al-AIR (Badajoz) and Recoderush (Rochefort).
HACK4SCAIRA was a demonstration of the talent and capacity for innovation that exists in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the SUDOE space and once again highlighted the important role that collaboration between professionals from different countries plays in generating spaces for co-creation and knowledge exchange, which are fundamental in the development of high-impact technological solutions.
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