CALL FOR CHALLENGES OPEN NOW

Submit your challenge and participate in

Ocean Hackathon Kuala Lumpur from 17 to 19 October 2025

Apply before May 15, 2025.

No idea what Ocean Hackathon is about? What is considered a challenge how to submit yours?

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Why submit a challenge?

  • Explore an idea, materialize a project, or remove a technical barrier

  • Form a multidisciplinary team to develop all aspects of their project

  • Have access to tools and data provided by the partners of Ocean Hackathon®

  • Receive advise from coaches during the weekend. Benefit from their technical, scientific and project expertise

  • Discover the innovative community of the city/region and expand their network

  • Join the international community and discover a remarkably interesting panel of projects

What is a challenge?

A challenge in Ocean Hackathon® is either a simple idea or an idea that fulfils a need of the maritime community or a more mature project that needs a boost or special expertise. The owners of the challenge can be legal entities or individual people.

To be taken into consideration, the challenge must:

  • be linked with the ocean and seas, their sustainable development and/or their preservation

  • lead to new ideas and/or innovative solutions

  • be based on the use of data

  • require the development of a prototype during the event

What are the evaluation criteria to win your local edition and to participate to the Grande Finale in Brest?