HACK THE WASTE
21 - 22 March 2025 | 24 hour Hackathon

HACK THE WASTE

🌍 Hack the Waste: Innovate for a Cleaner Future! ♻️

Hack the Waste is an annual 24-hour hackathon that challenges participants from around the world to create innovative solutions for global waste management challenges. This exciting event brings together students and professionals across disciplines to tackle one of the planet's most pressing issues – waste reduction and sustainable management. 💡🌱

💻 What to Expect?

  • 🤝 Team Collaboration: Work in diverse, interdisciplinary teams to brainstorm and develop practical solutions for waste management challenges.
  • 🚀 Skills Development: Enhance your knowledge in innovation management, design thinking, social responsibility, research, and presentation.
  • 🌟 Expert Guidance: Receive support and mentorship from industry professionals to refine your ideas.
  • 🌐 Global Networking: Connect with participants from around the globe and become part of an international innovation community.

📅 Key Details:

  • Format: 🕒 24-hour online hackathon
  • Datet: 📆 March 21–22, 2025
  • Target Audience: 🎓 Students, innovators, and young professionals passionate about sustainability and technology
  • Prizes: 🏆 Compete for recognition for your innovative ideas
  • Registration: CLOSED

🌟 Why Participate?

By joining Hack the Waste, you’ll gain:

  • 🌏 Valuable experience in tackling real-world environmental challenges.
  • 🤩 The chance to make a tangible impact and inspire change.
  • 🤝 A global network of like-minded changemakers.
  • 🎉 A fun, dynamic, and rewarding experience!

🤝 Powered by International Partners

Hack the Waste is supported by an incredible network of academic and industry partners committed to fostering innovation and sustainability. 🌟

Our partners include:

  • UCLL University of Applied Sciences, Belgium
  • Banku Augstskola, Latvia
  • Belgium Campus ITVersity, South Africa
  • HAN University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
  • UCN University of Applied Sciences, Denmark
  • Businet
  • THU University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  • HackTribe

With partner support, participants gain access to cutting-edge tools, valuable mentorship, and impactful resources to bring their ideas to life. 🙌✨

Schedule

Please note that the times are indicated in the timezone Europe/Copenhagen (GMT +0200).

18 Mar 2025

18:00 - 19:30: Icebraking and information session - ZOOM

What to expect of Hack the Waste. Code of conduct. Miro-board: Resource to support your process and progress. What happens next - before the Hack: Team formation + icebraking activities + choose name. What are the evaluation criteria during the Hackathon

21 Mar 2025

12:00 - 12:15: Welcome to Hack the Waste | Main ZOOM room

Yvonne Farrand, General Manager, Businet,

12:15 - 12:30: Presentation of the case | Main ZOOM room

Case presented by by Shanna Cloet from Fostplus Belgium

12:30 - 15:00: Independent work by teams. | Breakout rooms

Read and discuss case. Research the problem, understand the problem in its context. First round of ideation

15:00 - 16:00: Pitch 1: Framing the problem statement + first ideas + feedback | ZOOM Pitch rooms

5 min./team. Mentors give feedback

Please Join:

Breakout room 13 (Teams 01 - 06)

Breakout room 14 (Teams 07 - 12)

16:00 - 18:00: Independent work by teams | Breakout rooms

More ideation based on the feedback, choose what to research and develop

18:00 - 19:00: Pitch 2: what did we learn from feedback? | ZOOM Pitch rooms

3 min/Team. Ideas refined, plan of approach refined, + feedback from the mentors

Please Join:

Breakout room 13 (Teams 01 - 06)

Breakout room 14 (Teams 07 - 12)

19:00 - 23:00: Independent work by teams | Breakout rooms
22:00 - 22:30: Pitch Workshop - ROOM 15
23:00 - 23:30: Follow-up: what did we do until now? | ZOOM Pitch rooms

3 min./team

Please Join:

Breakout room 13 (Teams 01 - 06)

Breakout room 14 (Teams 07 - 12)

23:30 - 22/03/2025 04:00: Independent work by teams | Breakout rooms

22 Mar 2025

04:00 - 04:30: Follow-up: what did we do until now? | ZOOM Pitch rooms

3 min./team

Please Join:

Breakout room 13 (Teams 01 - 06)

Breakout room 14 (Teams 07 - 12)

04:30 - 07:00: Independent work by teams | Breakout rooms
07:00 - 07:30: Follow-up: what is going on with your marketing plan, risk assessment, product demo? | ZOOM Pitch rooms
07:30 - 09:00: Independent work by teams | Breakout rooms
09:00 - 09:15: Submit deliverables | Breakout Rooms

Students submit the deliverables, minus prototype, for the jury to review

09:15 - 10:00: Independent work by teams. | Breakout rooms

Continued work on Prototype and the Final Presentation

10:00 - 10:45: Presentation and demo of the solutions for the juries | ZOOM Pitch rooms

7 min./team

10:45 - 11:05: The juries evaluate and deliberate | Jury rooms
11:05 - 11:20: Final presentations by the FINALISTS for the juries and participants | Main ZOOM room

One team from each Pitch room - nominated by the juries. Both juries and all participating teams attend. 7 min./team

11:20 - 11:30: The juries and each team evaluate and deliberate
11:30 - 12:00: Announcement of the winning team | Main ZOOM room

Congrats + feedback + wrap-up