STREFOWA Food Waste Hackathons

Food Waste Hackathons are a chance for you to contribute your ideas, knowledge and interest to reduce food waste in your country. An entire weekend we put our heads together and develop ideas how apps can help our country to reduce food waste. You don't need to be a food waste expert, nor an IT person. The magic lies in the diversity of the participants of a Food Waste Hackathon. What units us all is: we are all consumers and we all waste food. So we all know what would help us personally to waste less food.

What is a Food Waste Hackathon?

Hardfacts:

Not just for techies

The idea and how an app, website or bot can be used to reduce food waste is far more important at our Food Waste Hackathons, than actually understanding how to program. To make sure the ideas make sense from a technical point of view, programmers advise and help on how to implement the ideas. Participants were from different professions and more than 6 countries: Environmental students, programmers, entrepreneurs, game designers, communication managers, Food Sharing activists, food waste experts and marketing experts, designers and film makers. The broad mix of professions and people made the teamwork really interesting and the results impactful.

5 Food Waste Hackathons in 5 countries

An entire weekend: Friday evening till Sunday

Free participation with deposit

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What is a hackathon?

Hackathons come from the IT world and orignally are a coding competition. Over the last years more and more themed Hackathons are emerging to use the power of IT to solve pressing problems of our times, like food waste or integration, etc...

Who shall join a Food Waste Hackathon?

Everyone interested in reducing food waste with smart IT solutions! To plan an successful app many smart heads are needed to answer those questions everyone should ask before building an app. How would people use it? What would people expect from this app? How should it look? How would people find out about the app? How do you establish cooperations with partners to make the app impactful? How should the app be programmed?

If you are interested in one or all of this questions and if your knowledge or profession could contribute to answering all of this important questions and you care about food waste, then you should participate at the next Food Waste Hackathon near you.

If you are not sure if you should participate or not, write us an email and we talk it through.

Write us an email!

Registration via Evenbrite

It is free to participate, but we charge a 10 EUR fee, when signing up, so we know that you are comitted to taking part. We fully refund the fee, when you participate at the Food Waste Hackathon.

Bring your laptop and smartphone, we take care of the rest ...

If you don't have a laptop, that is also no problem, one or 2 per team are enough. There is enough to do with a just pen and paper or a tablet.
We provide you with fresh food, coffee and snacks throughout the weekend, so you can focus on ideas to reducefoodwaste.

Prizes!

To thank all of the great participants for their engagement and time to help reduce food waste, we provide all winning teams with prizes.

See here what Food Waste Hackers in Austria won.

The happy winners: Food Waste Hackathon Vienna.

An indepented and local jury will decide ...

... which team and idea will have the biggest potential to reduce food waste and how it was implemented and planned out at the weekend of the Food Waste Hackathon, following this 3 criterias:

How much impact would it have on food waste?
How well thought out is the idea and possible implementation?
How is the visible output/presentation from the weekend?

Agenda

Friday, 5 pm - 8 pm (open for public)

5:00 Welcome
5:30 Official Opening
6:00 Challenges presented
7:00 Time to pitch ideas
7:00 - 8:00 Networking and Teambuilding

Saturday, 9 am - 6 pm Uhr (participants only)

9:00 Breakfast and Coffee
9:30- 12:30 Ideation & Teambuilding
12:30 Lunch
01:15 Energizing Activities
01:30-6:00 Working on the soltution to reduce food waste

Sunday, 9 am - 5 pm (participants only)

9:00 Breakfast and Coffee
9:30- 12:30 Teamwork
01:15 Energizing Activities
01:30 Finishing ideas and working on presentation
5:00 Handing over final presentation