Hack AgriFood'20

An international interactive hackathon aimed at helping the agriculture and food sectors overcome ongoing problems and solve challenges related to the COVID-19 crisis

Co-create with Experts

Online workshops and expert mentorship spread along a 6 week period

Solve a Challenge

Pick 1 of 15 real challenges from AgriFood companies or propose your own!

Win a Prize

Over €10.000 in the Prize Fund and outreach to leading EU competence networks

Change the World

Opportunities to implement your solution within the market

Online hackathon requirements and guidance

Challenges

Quarantine measures and lockdowns throughout Europe have caused a rearrangement in the usual food supply networks. The value of using, supporting and promoting locally produced supplies and foods – as well as short food supply chains that link producers directly with consumers – has become apparent. In order to further reinforce local food supply networks, we are looking for visionary teams that can provide solutions in the domains of:

Connecting local producers directly with consumers
Projecting demand and priority of local goods
Community-based supply chains
Solutions for surplus food distribution

Locally produced non-soya plant proteins

Spain Zyrcular Foods

Consumer-oriented short food supply chain solutions

Latvia Food Products Quality Cluster

Creative means for encouraging provision of quality data

Lithuania ART21 Ltd.

Plant stress cause assessment

Lithuania Vikonda Group, JSC

Food production is a wasteful process, during which between 20-40% of food is lost. Thus, utilizing the by-products and side-streams of these processes to produce value adding products is essential in our collective pursuits of sustainable environments and circular economies. The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has returned food production side-stream utilization into the spotlight. We are on the lookout for smart and easy to implement solutions that help with:

Side-stream value discovery
Aggregating by-products
Monetizing side-streams
Side-stream recycling or utilization

Reusing by-products from oil or juice production

Austria Food Cluster

Optimizing food catering for major public festivals

Latvia Saulrieta koncerti (Sunset Concerts)

Valorizing dairy product manufacturing side-streams

Lithuania Žemaitijos pienas

The COVID-19 related disturbances in our food supply networks and consumption patters has caused significant food waste, as well as led to major financial losses for food manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Packaging is one of the key factors at the center of all of this. We welcome all innovative solutions for food packaging that address such issues as:

Consumer-oriented traceability solutions
Digital technology-infused packaging
Lowering the environmental footprint of packages
Biodegradable and recycled packaging

Creative reborn packaging

Spain Industrias Plásticas Triana, S.A.

Package-based product shelf life estimation

Spain Zyrcular Foods

Sustainable and affordable cutlery

Spain Areas

Sustainable sandwich packaging

Spain Areas

On-line retail and food product or meal deliveries to the consumers’ doorstep have skyrocketed throughout Europe and the World. And the end of this surge in no where in sight. Yet alternative retail channels and the so called “last mile delivery” remain relatively open fields for novel and efficiency-increasing solutions. We are welcoming teams that offer solutions related to:

Solving increasing demand for last mile delivery
Controlling and monitoring conditions of last mile delivery
Environmental footprint of last mile delivery
Simplifying retail for food producers

Novel efficiency-increasing solutions for food delivery

Austria Food Cluster

We would like to kindly inform you that the registration period to HACK AgriFood'20 online virtual hackathon has ended. We'll keep you updated as there might be a local hackathon just around the corner

Why is it worth to participate?

For business

Experienced international teams will pitch targeted solutions and demonstrate MVPs developed for your personal challenges
You will be able to track the progress and interact with teams and their supporting mentors during on-line sessions and webinars
You will gain visibility among AgriFood innovators, key stakeholders, sector clusters and Digital Innovation Hubs throughout Europe

For teams

The best teams will get valuable prizes
You will be able to sell your idea to an AgriFood sector company
You will gain visibility among AgriFood innovators, key stakeholders, sector clusters and Digital Innovation Hubs throughout Europe