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<font color="#000000">This open data competition might be of interest. <br>
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<font color="#000000">The third edition of the EU Datathon has been officially launched on 28 January 2019 by the
<b>Publications Office of the European Union</b>, in partnership with the <b>Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union</b>.</font></p>
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<font color="#000000">The EU Datathon is a growing in popularity event aiming to further
<b>stimulate the use of open data</b> issued by the European Union. It allows competitors to showcase their data skills and innovative ideas. Furthermore, it offers them the opportunity to network and gather support in order to continue developing their ideas
after the competition. </font></p>
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<b><font color="#000000">The challenges</font></b></p>
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<font color="#000000">Participants are invited to develop apps and interactive visualisations offering new services or public information insights to citizens, public authorities and businesses. They have to use
<b>at least one dataset</b> made available by the EU Institutions, Agencies and other bodes and
<b>combine</b> it with <b>at least one dataset </b>of the competition’s partners. The participating teams can compete with their apps in
<b>one horizontal or two thematic challenges</b></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><span style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:10px; line-height:normal; font-family:Menlo"></span>Challenge 1: ‘Innovative ideas through EU open data’</font></li><li style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; font-size:12px; line-height:normal; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">
<font color="#000000"><span style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:10px; line-height:normal; font-family:Menlo"></span>Challenge 2: ‘New insights into economics and finance’</font></li><li style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; font-size:12px; line-height:normal; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">
<font color="#000000"><span style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:10px; line-height:normal; font-family:Menlo"></span>Challenge 3: ‘Tackling climate change’</font></li></ul>
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<b><font color="#000000">The prizes</font></b></p>
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<font color="#000000">The competition is supported by the <b>European Parliament’s</b> Preparatory Action “Linked Open Data in the European Public Administration” and the
<b>European Commission ISA˛ programme</b> (Interoperability solutions for public administrations, businesses and citizen). Joining the 2019 competition gives the opportunity to win one of the cash prizes in each challenge</font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><span style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:10px; line-height:normal; font-family:Menlo"></span>1st prize EUR 15.000</font></li><li style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; font-size:12px; line-height:normal; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">
<font color="#000000"><span style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:10px; line-height:normal; font-family:Menlo"></span>2nd prize EUR 7.000</font></li><li style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; font-size:12px; line-height:normal; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">
<font color="#000000"><span style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:10px; line-height:normal; font-family:Menlo"></span>3rd prize EUR 3.000</font></li></ul>
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<font color="#000000">The competition will culminate with the final conference in Brussels on 13 June 2019, where finalists will present their projects in front of an expert jury and the open data community.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="font-size:12px">More information on the competition rules, evaluation process, webinars (and previous editions) at </span></font></font><a href="https://publications.europa.eu/en/web/eudatathon/2019-rules" id="LPlnk165430" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px" previewremoved="true"><font color="#000000">https://publications.europa.eu/en/web/eudatathon/2019-rules</font></a></p>
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<font color="#000000">Details at <a href="https://publications.europa.eu/en/web/eudatathon/home" id="LPlnk467772" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
https://publications.europa.eu/en/web/eudatathon/home</a></font></p>
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<font color="#000000">Best wishes,</font></p>
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<font color="#000000">Suchith</font></p>
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