The University of Latvia Faculty of Business, Management and Economics and the UL Business Incubator are organizing an online webinar in English on "Transforming habits: behavior change strategies for innovative waste management" within the framework of the "The Ignite NEB" project. The webinar will be hosted by Balázs Horvath, an experienced business education professional from the team at “Kimitisik”, an educational technology company. The webinar will be held on September 27 at 18.30 – 20.00 on the Zoom platform. The webinar is a kick-off event for the upcoming urban environment hackathon "Sparkling the NEB spirit across Riga's municipality" in November, where the main prize is 10,000 euros.
To participate in the webinar, you must register in advance by filling out the form.
For the participants who will take part in the webinar, it will be a great opportunity to start working on the development of their idea and receive advice from mentors in order to more successfully participate in the hackathon "Sparkling the NEB spirit across Riga's municipality", which will take place from November 10 to 12 at the University of Business, Management and Economics in the faculty. The working language of the hackathon will be English. Registration form for hackathon.
The goal of the project is to bring together residents and students to participate in the development of business ideas and solutions that would positively affect the use of resources and waste management in Riga. The hackathon will start in the evening of November 10 and end in the afternoon of November 12. During the event, all participants will be provided with food. The hackathon will be led by an experienced team of entrepreneurship education professionals from the educational technology company Kimitisik, whose participants are from the Netherlands, Hungary and Italy. "Kimitisik" specializes in innovation of learning approaches and innovation education, as well as digital transformation.
At the end of the hackathon, the teams will present their ideas to the jury members. The best team will be able to continue working on their idea with a EUR 10,000 grant aimed at supporting the development, prototyping and testing of their solutions. Participation in webinars and hackathons is free.
To learn more about the hackathon, we invite those interested to participate in the webinar on September 27 at 18.30.
Next webinar “Hackathon hacks: success strategies and best practices” will be on 25.october at 18.30. Registration form.
