Dear all,
It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the policy hackathons #BalkanConnect2018, which will be held in Sarajevo (26-27 February), Belgrade (3-4 March), Skopje (8-9 March) and Pristina (10-11 March).
The
goal of this regional project is to inspire innovative ideas on how to change the Balkan political and social environments. Participants will have the opportunity to meet world-renowned experts, to influence policy
making in an innovative way, and to be funded to develop their solutions.
Policy
hackathon is a competition in which participants produce creative proposals on what should be changed and how to make those changes, in order to improve the functioning of our societies. Policy hackathons #BalkanConnect2018 are competitions for the best digital policy tool
for influencing the challenges faced by the region. Competitors will design and outline an original digital policy tool, and explain how it can affect the problem identified by the team within one of three topics: Dream green; Hack the corruption, law rulz; and Read between the
lies. To participate in this competition, programming skills are not necessary.
If you would like to learn more about policy hackathon in your country, you can meet and talk with the organisers at the Info Day (Belgrade, 2 February; Skopje, 9 February; Pristina, 10 February, Sarajevo, 13 February).
For more information, please visit the webpage hackathons.balkanfund.org.
We are inviting all interested applicants to apply here by February 18. All applicants will be informed about the final selection by February 23.
The
policy hackathons are organised by the European Fund for the Balkans, as part of marking the first 10 years of its work. The partners for this
project are Mozaik Foundation (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Free Libre Open
Source Software Kosova (Kosovo) and Mladiinfo International (Macedonia).
Best regards,