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Promoting the data culture is a key objective at the national level that is also shared by the regional administrations. One of the ways to achieve this purpose is to award those solutions that have been developed with open datasets, an initiative that enhances their reuse and impact on society.

On this mission, the Junta de Castilla y León and the Basque Government have been organising open data competitions for years, a subject we talked about in our first episode of the datos.gob.es podcast that you can listen to here.

In this post, we take a look at the winning projects in the latest editions of the open data competitions in the Basque Country and Castilla y León.

Winners of the 8th Castile and Leon Open Data Competition

In the eighth edition of this annual competition, which usually opens at the end of summer, 35 entries were submitted, from which 8 winners were chosen in different categories.

Ideas category: participants had to describe an idea to create studies, services, websites or applications for mobile devices. A first prize of 1,500€ and a second prize of 500€ were awarded.

• First prize: Green Guardians of Castilla y León presented by Sergio José Ruiz Sainz. This is a proposal to develop a mobile application to guide visitors to the natural parks of Castilla y León. Users can access information (such as interactive maps with points of interest) as well as contribute useful data from their visit, which enriches the application.
• Second prize: ParkNature: intelligent parking management system in natural spaces presented by Víctor Manuel Gutiérrez Martín. It consists of an idea to create an application that optimises the experience of visitors to the natural areas of Castilla y León, by integrating real-time data on parking and connecting with nearby cultural and tourist events.

Products and Services Category: Awarded studies, services, websites or applications for mobile devices, which must be accessible to all citizens via the web through a URL. In this category, first, second and third prizes of €2,500, €1,500 and €500 respectively were awarded, as well as a specific prize of €1,500 for students.

• First prize: AquaCyL from Pablo Varela Vázquez. It is an application that provides information about the bathing areas in the autonomous community.
• Second prize: ConquistaCyL presented by Markel Juaristi Mendarozketa and Maite del Corte Sanz. It is an interactive game designed for tourism in Castilla y León and learning through a gamified process.
• Third prize: All the sport of Castilla y León presented by Laura Folgado Galache. It is an app that presents all the information of interest associated with a sport according to the province.
• Student prize: Otto Wunderlich en Segovia by Jorge Martín Arévalo. It is a photographic repository sorted according to type of monuments and location of Otto Wunderlich's photographs.

Didactic Resource Category: consisted of the creation of new and innovative open didactic resources to support classroom teaching. These resources were to be published under Creative Commons licences. A single first prize of €1,500 was awarded in this category.

• First prize: StartUp CyL: Business creation through Artificial Intelligence and Open Data presented by José María Pérez Ramos. It is a chatbot that uses the ChatGPT API to assist in setting up a business using open data.

Data Journalism category: awarded for published or updated (in a relevant way) journalistic pieces, both in written and audiovisual media, and offered a prize of €1,500.

• First prize: Codorniz, perdiz y paloma torcaz son las especies más cazadas en Burgos, presented by Sara Sendino Cantera, which analyses data on hunting in Burgos.

Winners of the 5th edition of the Open Data Euskadi Open Data Competition

As in previous editions, the Basque open data portal opened two prize categories: an ideas competition and an applications competition, each of which was divided into several categories. On this occasion, 41 applications were submitted for the ideas competition and 30 for the applications competition.

Idea competition: In this category, two prizes of €3,000 and €1,500 have been awarded in each category.

Health and Social Category

• First prize: Development of a Model for Predicting the Volume of Patients attending the Emergency Department of Osakidetza by Miren Bacete Martínez. It proposes the development of a predictive model using time series capable of anticipating both the volume of people attending the emergency department and the level of severity of cases.
• Second prize: Euskoeduca by Sandra García Arias. It is a proposed digital solution designed to provide personalised academic and career guidance to students, parents and guardians.

Category Environment and Sustainability

• First prize: Baratzapp by Leire Zubizarreta Barrenetxea. The idea consists of the development of a software that facilitates and assists in the planning of a vegetable garden by means of algorithms that seek to enhance the knowledge related to the self-consumption vegetable garden, while integrating, among others, climatological, environmental and plot information in a personalised way for the user.
• Second prize: Euskal Advice by Javier Carpintero Ordoñez. The aim of this proposal is to define a tourism recommender based on artificial intelligence.

General Category

• First prize: Lanbila by Hodei Gonçalves Barkaiztegi. It is a proposed app that uses generative AI and open data to match curriculum vitae with job offers in a semantic way.. It provides personalised recommendations, proactive employment and training alerts, and enables informed decisions through labour and territorial indicators.
• Second prize: Development of an LLM for the interactive consultation of Open Data of the Basque Government by Ibai Alberdi Martín. The proposal consists in the development of a Large Scale Language Model (LLM) similar to ChatGPT, specifically trained with open data, focused on providing a conversational and graphical interface that allows users to get accurate answers and dynamic visualisations.

Applications competition: this modality has selected one project in the web services category, awarded with €8,000, and two more in the General Category, which have received a first prize of €8,000 and a second prize of €5,000.

Category Web Services

• First prize: Bizidata: Plataforma de visualización del uso de bicicletas en Vitoria-Gasteiz by Igor Díaz de Guereñu de los Ríos. It is a platform that visualises, analyses and downloads data on bicycle use in Vitoria-Gasteiz, and explores how external factors, such as the weather and traffic, influence bicycle use.

General Category

• First prize: Garbiñe AI by Beatriz Arenal Redondo. It is an intelligent assistant that combines Artificial Intelligence (AI) with open data from Open Data Euskadi to promote the circular economy and improve recycling rates in the Basque Country.
• Second prize: Vitoria-Gasteiz Businessmap by Zaira Gil Ozaeta. It is an interactive visualisation tool based on open data, designed to improve strategic decisions in the field of entrepreneurship and economic activity in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

All these award-winning solutions reuse open datasets from the regional portal of Castilla y León or Euskadi, as the case may be. We encourage you to take a look at the proposals that may inspire you to participate in the next edition of these competitions. Follow us on social media so you don't miss out on this year's calls!

The Basque Government announces the fifth edition of the awards for the best open data reuse projects in the Basque Country. An initiative that was created with the aim of rewarding the best ideas and applications/services created from the open data catalogue of the Basque Country (Open Data Euskadi) to show its potential and promote open data culture.

As in previous editions, there are two types of prizes: an ideas competition and an applications competition. In the first, a sum of 13,500 euros in prize money will be awarded. In the second, the prize money amounts to €21,000.

Below are the details of the call for proposals for each of the modalities:

Competition of ideas

Proposals for services, studies, visualisations and applications (web and mobile) that reuse open datasets from the Open Data Euskadi portal to provide value to society will be evaluated. Ideas may be of general utility or focus on one of two sectors: health and social or environment and sustainability.

• Who is it aimed at? To all those people or companies from inside and outside the Basque Country who wish to present ideas and projects for the reuse of open data from the Basque Country. This modality does not require technical knowledge of programming or computer development.
• How can you take part? It will be necessary to explain the idea in a text document and attach it when registering. Registration can be done either online or in person.
• What prizes are on offer?  Two winning projects will be chosen for each category, which will be divided into a first prize of 3,000 euros and a second prize of 1,500 euros. In other words, in summary, the awards are:

• Health and social category
  • First prize: €3,000
  • Second prize: €1,500

• Environment and sustainability category
  • First prize: €3,000
  • Second prize: €1,500

• General category
  • First prize: €3,000
  • Second prize: €1,500

Here you can read the rules of the Open Data Euskadi ideas competition: https://www.euskadi.eus/servicios/1028505

Application competition

This modality does require some technical knowledge of programming or computer development, asalready developed solutions using Open Data Euskadi open datasets must bepresented . Applications may be submitted in the general category or in the specific category of web services.

• Who is it aimed at? To those people or companies capable of creating services, studies, visualisations, web applications or applications for mobile devices that use at least one set of open data from one of the Basque Country's open data catalogues.
• How can you take part? The project must be explained in a text document and the developed project (service, study, visualisation, web or mobile application) must be accessible via a URL. At registering both the explanatory document and the URL of the project will be attached. 
• What prizes are on offer? This category offers a single prize of 8,000 euros for the web services category and two prizes for the general category of 8,000 and 5,000 euros.
  

  • Category web services

    • Only one prize: €8,000
  •  General category
    • First prize: €8,000
    • Second prize: €5,000

Check here the rules of the competition in application development mode: https://www.euskadi.eus/servicios/1028605

Deadline for registration:

The competition has been accepting proposals since 31 July and closes on 10 October. Follow us on social media so you don't miss any news about open data reuse events and competitions: @datosgob

Take part!

The Junta de Castilla y León has launched their third edition of the open data contest. Its objective is "to recognize the development of projects that use datasets from the Open Data portal of the Junta de Castilla y León". In short, it look for boosting open data and re-users community in Castilla y León.

On this occasion, 3 categories have been established:

1. Ideas Category: Ideas to create a study, service, website or application for mobile devices, using datasets from the Open Data portal of the Junta de Castilla y León. It give an opportunity to those people or entities that, without having the technical capacity, the resources or the time to implement a project with open data, do have the idea.
2. Products and Services Category: Projects that are accessible to all citizens via the internet through a url. These projects must consist of studies, services, websites or applications for mobile devices, using datasets from the Open Data portal of the Junta de Castilla y León.
3. Educational Resource Category: Creation of new and innovative open educational resources (published with Creative Commons licenses) using data sets from the Open Data portal of the Junta de Castilla y León to help teaching in the classroom.

A jury, made up of representatives of the Autonomous Administration and the sponsoring company, GMV, will choose the eight winners based on a series of criteria, such as its usefulness, originality or public value. Three prizes will be awarded to the Ideas Category, three to the Products and Services Category, and two to the Educational Resources Category made by educational centers. In the first two categories (Ideas and Products and Services) an award will be reserved for students enrolled in the courses 2017-2018 or 2018-2019.

The prizes will consist of an economic endowment (12,000 euros to be distributed) and individualized advice on business development, provided by the Business Development Area of the Institute for Business Competitiveness of Castilla y León (ICE):

1. Ideas Category: First prize: € 2,000 / Second prize: € 1,000 / Prize for students: € 1,000.
2. Products and Services Category: First prize: € 3,000 / Second prize: € 1,500 / Prize for students: € 2,000.
3. Educational Resource Category: First prize: 1,000 euros in technological material / Second prize: 500 euros in technological material.

The candidatures can be presented at the electronic headquarters of the Regional Government of Castilla y León: Open Data Contest of the Community of Castilla y León (2018). The contest is open to both natural and legal persons, with the exception of public administrations and those individuals or legal entities that have participated directly or indirectly in the call. The deadline to submit the projects is from December 21, 2018, to February 10, 2019.