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Prizes

What you get by participating

What you can win

Who can participate

The ONTOCHAIN Hacktahons are aimed at web3 innovators, including students in this field, as well as experienced developers, researchers, startups, etc.

Innovators who have been funded via ONTOCHAIN Open Calls can not participate in the ONTOCHAIN Hackathons.

Eligibility requirements:

• Teams composed of a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 5 members
• All team members legally established/resident in any of the following countries:
  • The Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU), including their outermost regions;
  • The Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) linked to the Member States;
  • H2020 associated countries (those which signed an agreement with the Union as identified in Article 7 of the Horizon 2020 Regulation): according to the updated list published by the EC;
  • The UK Applicants are eligible under the conditions set by the EC for H2020 participation and as long as they comply with the same eligibility rules as the other Applicants.

The Challenges

Your Hackathon Kit

• ONTOCHAIN Summit: get a better understanding of the ONTOCHAIN software ecosystem and the services that you’ll be able to choose from to develop your application
• ONTOCHAIN Software ecosystem: meet the ONTOCHAIN platform and its different layers
• ONTOCHAIN Selected Projects: check the services selected via 3 Open Calls
• D3.4 - Framework specification: read information about functionality and APIs of Open Call 1 projects
• D3.5 - Framework specification 2: learn about the APIs of Open Call 2 projects
• D3.2 - ONTOCHAIN State of the Art (Year 2)
• Proposal template: download this template, fill in all the requested details and upload it via the application form
• Hackathons Terms & Conditions: you will be requested to agree with the events terms & conditions when filling in the application form

Selected participants will also get access to:

• ONTOCHAIN services described in D3.4 - Framework specification and D3.5 - Framework specification 2.
• Babelfish project Service Catalogue. From this project you will be able to access all the ONTOCHAIN services.
  The ONTOCHAIN Gateway API is the entry point for developers and users of ONTOCHAIN services and is composed of three main modules:
  • Service Discovery: search deployed ONTOCHAIN services with structured queries and access them directly
  • Accounts Management: functions related to organisation and user accounts and access rights
  • Data Storage: high-level interfaces that are common to all of the supported backend storage services: Semantic Container (off-chain data), Amazon S3 (off-chain data), Convex (on-chain data), ONTOCHAIN Bellecour (on-chain data)

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Timeline

Other useful information

Participants selection

Each hackathon will accept up to 20 teams. Only one application per team can be accepted for each Hackathon.

The teams acceptance will be made based on:

• Criteria 1 (Weighting - 30%) - How you can benefit from the ONTOCHAIN software platform
• Criteria 2 (Weighting - 40%) - Application idea (relevance, creativity, innovation and originality, application screenshots/mockups, user experience)
• Criteria 3 (Weighting - 30%) - Team credibility (professional experience, past projects, academic activities, grades, degrees, lines of codes in open-souce projects, any other related activities)

Notes:

• Criteria will be scored using a scale of 1 - Very Insufficient to 5 - Excellent
• A team can apply for both Hackathons, but can only be accepted in one. In case the team ranks among the top 20 applications for both Hackathons, it will be accepted only at the one in which it ranks higher
• In case of a tie, priority will be given to the application first submitted.

Attendance requirements

• Each team is responsible for bringing their own computers
• Participants must have a good/stable Wi-Fi connection

Hackathons winners

The solutions developed as part of each ONTOCHAIN Hackathon will be evaluated according to 5 criteria:

• Criteria 1 (Weighting - 15%) - Innovativeness and creativity of intended results. Has the team come up with an idea for a project that sounds exciting and challenging to tackle?
• Criteria 2 (Weighting - 30%) – Usefulness of the ONTOCHAIN services for their application  and credibility of their integration with ONTOCHAIN services used in developing the solution. Has the project been able to use ONTOCHAIN services and to what extent?
• Criteria 3 (Weighting - 15%) - Exploitation potential of results.  Has the project been able to demonstrate transferable results which can be used in the future or in the market?
• Criteria 4 (Weighting - 25%) - Presentation of results/ Informative Demo. The team will have 3 minutes to present their results/ product live and cogently and concisely tell us about any problems encountered, the solutions introduced, the tools leveraged and the lessons learned.
• Criteria 5 (Weighting - 15%) - Completeness of results/ Execution. To what extent did the team successfully execute upon the project concept over the course of the hackathon?

Notes:

• Criteria will be scored using a scale of 1 - Very Insufficient to 5 - Excellent.

Ownership rights

The participants own the intellectual property rights of the original idea and work they develop as part of the participation in the hackathons. ONTOCHAIN or any of its partners will not own the rights or the ideas developed, regardless of the idea being awarded or not. ONTOCHAIN and its partners, independently of the type of involvement in and contribution to the development of the idea, will not own any part of the idea or design, unless a written agreement or transfer of rights is implemented by the participants and all parties, including those of ONTOCHAIN.

Participants materials should be provided as open-source, and free access to the software developed or to demonstration material must be provided to the Hackathons organisers, for demonstration purposes only.

Participants won’t own any part of the ONTOCHAIN services that they use/modify.

Check the Hackathons Terms & Conditions for more information.