EU-MOUNTAIN-HACK

                   Milan 26-29 November 2019

                      Accelerating Sustainability Transitions

Background

Mountains cover nearly 27 per cent of the Earth’s land mass and play a crucial role in sustainable economic growth. International Mountain Day is celebrated on 11 December and was established by the United Nations in 2002, in occasion of the International Year of Mountains, which was held in 2003. The celebration aims to increase awareness on the importance of mountains for the health of the planet and well-being of billions of people.

Moreover, mountain glaciers are the sentinels of climate change.

According to the theme chosen for 2017, the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research launched the first youth Hackathon on the most pressing national issues related to mountains, taking place in Milan on December 2017 at the University of Milan headquarter (Video-Link: https://bit.ly/2JdsWCx). Its objective was to promote and support concrete and long-lasting initiatives in favour of mountain populations and their territories.  After that educational experience, the Mountain Hack competition involved over 200 students in four different Italian cities and other 100 from 5 nepalese schools in Kathmandu and Pokhara (Nepal) in 2018.

In this video you can see our design process

Project description

European Mountain Hack #EUSALP2019 has been the very first European edition of a school hackathon dedicated to the mountain development, an international competition for interdisciplinary young students aimed at generating solutions with a significant impact onthe Alpine Region, "in un clima che cambia"  100 students from Italy, Austria, Germany and Slovenia have been invited to develop innovative high-impact ideas, projects, services and/or tools capable of meeting international requirements and presenting sustainable responses. 

This occasion would serve as a youth hub creating a connection between learning and doing, enabling young people to share information, promote the use of creativity and the importance of cooperation and team work, tackle the most important Alpine challenges.

Keeping a strong focus on the importance of the youth’s perspective in mind, the challenges and topics were selected on the basis of the European Union Strategy of the Alpine Region AGENDA.(EUSALP). Eu Mountain Hack, in fact, took place during the days of #EUSALP Forum.

The young minds would be asked to work in team and submit their final proposal presenting a video, and/or a ppt presentation during a final pitch session. Proposals were assessed by a multidisciplinary jury according to their creativity, practicality, social impact, innovation.

The best proposal of each challenge were awarded.

Watch this video about the event