<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)">Space Apps Challenge global virtual hackathon 30-31 May </span></strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)">is being launched by NASA, ESA, and JAXA to develop COVID-19 solutions.
For the first time, the hackathon will offer an opportunity to use open-source
data generated by these three space agencies:<br>
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Participants from around the world will create teams in chat rooms which –
during a 48-hour period – will use Earth observation data to come up with
solutions to COVID-19-related challenges ranging from studying the coronavirus
that causes COVID-19 and its spread to the impact the disease is having on the
Earth system.<br>
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The 4 themes of the Global hackathon are: </span></p>

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 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(32,32,32);text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Learning
     about the virus and its spread using space-based data;</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(32,32,32);text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Local
     response/change and solution;</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(32,32,32);text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Impacts
     of COVID-19 on the Earth System / Earth system response;</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(32,32,32);text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Economic
     opportunity, impact, and recovery during and following COVID-19.</span></li>
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<u>Volunteers to act as subject-matter experts</u> are invited (deadline 15
May): <a href="https://nereus-regions.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a98ef6b55af2c979120ecec62&id=d9b47a9064&e=26afa2909b" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(0,124,137)">https://forms.gle/sXdfEh1YEt1UD9nw7</span></a><br>
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<u>Participant registration is now open</u>: After your registration you will
receive the challenges which will be sent out a week before the event. <a href="https://covid19.spaceappschallenge.org/" style="color:blue">https://covid19.spaceappschallenge.org/</a></span><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)">Source: NEREUS<br>
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