Hack for Food, Hack for Good | London

If you are a healthcare professional, designer, maker, service or UX designer, developer, communication expert, creative or student, and you want to contribute to supporting communities in Southeast London to improve their health, this is the event for you: sign up here!

OpenDot - a research and open innovation hub based in Milan - in collaboration with King's Health Partners, HIN - Health Innovation Network South London and NHS South East London Integrated Care System, launches a call to participate in a hackathon with the aim of support people to live healthier lifestyles and adopt healthier diets, by bringing together a wide range of partners to create a positive step-change to improve health and reduce health inequalities.

Through this hackathon, you and your team will ideate and develop solutions to promote the adoption of healthier lifestyles also through an educational approach, focused on addressing real-life challenges faced by groups of our population who require more tailored support to live healthier for longer.  

The hackathon is an activity of the European project FEAST - Food systems that support transitions to healthy and sustainable diets (https://feast2030.eu/), which aims to facilitate the transition to a food system that is better for people and for our planet.

Participating in "Hack For Food, Hack for Good" means collaborating, co-creating, learning new skills in a creative marathon during which you will be helped by OpenDot designers and makers, international mentors from King's Health Partners and WHO Europe, partners of the FEAST project, and industry experts.

The teams will compete to develop a project concept, and win a 2-month prize of mentorship, prototyping in a fab lab, acceleration of the idea, and a series of prizes with value up to £4.000!

Be an active part of the change, sign up now!

When: 22nd - 24th February 2024

Where: London [more info to come!]

Audience: participation is open to

• groups up to a maximum of 5 persons

• individuals*
  
  *Candidates who propose themselves as singles will be associated in teams. Groups of less than 5 people may be associated with other participants.

Participation free after registration and selection. The criteria for selecting participants will be experience, in order to create teams with balanced skills, and motivation.

You have to be based in London, or you’ll have to organize by yourself the accommodation and travel to the city.

Limited availability (max 25 people)!

👉 Register your interest here.

Deadline to apply: 05 February 2024

(do not wait until the last moment - seats will fill fast!)

The program

22.02 Day 1

• 9.00-10.00: Registration, tea/coffee/breakfast

• 10.00-10.45: Welcome and registrations

• 10.45-11.15: Introduction

  • FEAST project introduction 

  • challenges presentation

  • mentors presentation

  • work preparation

  • explanation of methods and tools
    
    

• 11.15-12.30: Begin group work

• 12.30-13.30: Lunch

• 13.30-18.00: Continue group work & mentoring

23.02 Day 2

• 9 - 12 Group work, projects review and mentoring 

• 12 - 13 Common lunch

• 14.30 - 18 Group work, projects review and mentoring 

• 18.00 Networking dinner (optional)

24.02 - Day 3 - Final presentation

• 9.30 - 11.00 am - final concepts presentations (online)

• 11 - 12 am - jury’s work (online)

• 12 am: Winner announcement! (online)

March & April: mentoring by OpenDot for the winning team