The delegate of the Consortium, Fran González, and the president of Ceei Bahía de Cádiz, Carmen Romero, agree on the joint realization of this entrepreneurial initiative in the framework of Blue Economics
The Ocean Hackathon® 2025 is an international competition promoted by the MONDIAL CAMPUS DE LA MER since 2016 that seeks innovative solutions and with the intensive use of digital data to problems related to the ocean
Fran González stressed that “Free Zone takes up this initiative, which it already promoted in 2020, because it perfectly includes the objective of continuing to advance in the attraction of talent and innovative projects related to the marine sector”
Cádiz is the only Spanish city that participates in this edition of the Hackathon and the winning team will go to the Grand Final of Brest next December
The new Base-Incubazul Zone building will host on the 17, 18th and 19th, next October of a new edition of Ocean Hackathon®, an international competition for innovative solutions to problems related to the ocean promoted by the Mondial de la Mer campus. This has been agreed during a work meeting by the State delegate in the Free Zone of Cádiz, Fran González, accompanied by the coordinator of Incubazul, Jose Manuel Fedriani, and the president of CEEI Bahía de Cádiz, Carmen Romero, who has attended Ana Suárez, attached to the direction and Miriam Almagro, responsible for the Safersea project, who have closed the collaboration of both institutions in the organization of both institutions in the organization event.
The tenth edition of this initiative emphasizes again in Cádiz, as the only participating Spanish city, by the hand of CEEI and the consortium, and its incubazul projects, high -tech incubator in Blue Economics, and Blue Core Vivero de Companies 4.0., Whose ecosystem represents and perfectly defines what is a hackathon®, favoring innovative entrepreneurship in the marine sector.
The development of Ocean Hackathon®, which is part of the European Safersea project, co -financed by Interreg Atlantic Area will have large axes on which the participating teams will have 48 hours to develop solutions through the intensive use of digital data: the decarbonization of maritime transport (clean energy, energy efficiency, reduction of emissions); Marine pollution (plastics detection, waste management or intelligent sensors) and maritime safety (accident prevention, autonomous navigation, surveillance).
All the challenges that arise should be based on the use of digital data, satellite images, marine maps and oceanographic predictions, among others.
The State delegate in the Free Zone explained that “the consortium again organizes an edition of the Hackaton after the good experience lived in 2020, at the beginning of the implementation of Incubazul, and from the conviction that at present, together with the Blue Core project, they are the best ecosystem for the development of this initiative because they share as main axes the commitment to the sustainability, innovation and the search for sustainability, innovation and highly technological to real problems of seas and oceans. ”
González stressed “the importance of collaboration between institutions, such as CEEI, to continue weaving networks and alliances in favor of the creation of opportunities and the attraction of talent around the sector of the blue economy that is both potential in our province and that is positioning it as an international pole in the sector”. In addition, the State delegate in the Free Zone has stressed that “the people who participate and resolve the challenges will be good
candidates to continue developing them in the incubator and nursery 4.0, focused on project digitalization, which will continue to add talent and entrepreneurial ideas that can make the leap to the labor market in a booming sector and with as much employability as that of the blue economy ”.
Open call on September 2
For her part, the president of CEEI, Carmen Romero, thanked the delegate of the consortium "her interest and disposition to join forces and carry out the Ocean Hackathon® In Cádiz jointly. "
During the meeting at the registered office of the Romero Free Zone has put the focus on which “the call for participants will open on September 2 and that the winning team will be invited to participate in the Great World Final of Brest (France) on December 2 of this year, together the winners of the other participating cities of the world, thus giving global visibility to the talent that is generated in the province of Cádiz”.
Romero has stressed that Cádiz is the only Spanish city that participates what evidences "that Cádiz has much to contribute to the blue economy of the 21st century. That is why we bet on innovation, cooperation and young talent as transformation engines." Cádiz will compete with other American, African and European cities such as Rimouski and Victoria (Canada); Peniche (Portugal); Heredia (Costa Rica); Paucarpata (Peru); Salvador (Brazil); Cape Town (South Africa); Pointenoire (Congo); Djerba (Tunisia); Split (Croatia); Toulon and Brest (France).