Events

From October 28 to November 24, registration will be open for submitting proposals to the challenge organized by the Diputación de Bizkaia. The goal of the competition is to identify initiatives that combine the reuse of available data from the Open Data Bizkaia portal with the use of artificial intelligence. The complete guidelines are available at this link, but in this post, we will cover everything you need to know about this contest, which offers cash prizes for the five best projects. Participants...

EXTENDED: You can submit your project until September 20th!   The deadline to participate in the II edition of the Datathon UniversiData is now open. This competition recognises the value of projects that reuse open university data published on the portal UniversiDATA,a public-private initiative that was born at the end of 2020. Its aim was, and is, to promote open data in the Spanish higher education sector in a harmonised way. UniversiDATA is currently made up of the Universidad...

The summer comes to an end and gives way to an autumn full of relevant events for the open data sector. This time of year, you can learn about technological innovation and discuss the transformative power of data in society. Take note of these free opportunities. We bring you a compilation in chronological order according to the date of celebration of trainings, conferences, events and much more. We present a first block of sessions that are confined to our country and, subsequently, we mention others of...

  Aragón Open Data is 10 years old and to celebrate it they have launched a datathon entitled "The future of data". The event will take place on 25 November. What is the datathon about? The aim of the meeting, organised together with Fractal Strategy, is for citizens to experiment and generate new ideas based on open data that add value to society. Aragon open Data will propose six challenges. Participants will have to choose one of the challenges or propose another of their choice....

60 participants, 10 mentors and €2,000 in prizes. These are the figures managed by DiValHack, the Hackathon promoted by Red.es and the Diputación de Valencia to bring the project "Connecta Valencia: Smart and Sustainable Tourism Territory" to the citizens. This project, financed by the public entity Red.es with FEDER funds, seeks to improve the tourism competitiveness of Valencian municipalities, increasing their knowledge to offer a better and more sustainable experience to tourists. What is DiValHack...

Do you accept the challenge of transforming Bizkaia from its open data? This is the "Datathon Open Data Bizkaia", a collaborative development competition organised by Lantik and the Provincial Council of Bizkaia. Participants will have to create the mockup of an application that helps to solve problems affecting the citizens of Bizkaia. To do so, they will have to use at least one dataset from among all those available on the Open Data Bizkaia portal. These datasets may be combined with data from other...

UniversiDATA organizes its first Datathon. Are you interested in data analysis? If the answer is yes, you will be interested to know that UniversiDATA has launched a datathon to recognize open data processing projects based on the datasets available on its portal.  This initiative seeks not only to reward talent, but also to promote the content offered and encourage its use, inspiring new projects through the dissemination of reference cases. It is also an opportunity to get to know their reusers...

For yet another year since 2016, the Junta de Castilla y León has opened the deadline to receive the most innovative proposals in the field of open data. The sixth edition of the competition of the same name aims to "recognise the development of projects that provide any type of idea, study, service, website or application for mobile devices, using datasets from the Open Data Portal of the Junta de Castilla y León". With this type of initiative, Castilla y León seeks to showcase the digital talent...

On March 5, communities around the world will join together to celebrate Open Data Day 2022. It is an annual celebration that seeks to showcase the benefits and encourage the adoption of open data policies in governments, businesses and civil society. Throughout the day -and on upcoming dates- local groups from all corners of the world organize different actions related to the publication and reuse of data. In Spain, some activities are also being held, such as: DATATHON 2022 Date: From March 4...

The Regional Ministry of Transparency, Territorial Planning and External Action of the Regional Government of Castilla y León has announced this year the fifth edition of the open data competition. The aim of this competition is to recognise the creation of projects for mobile devices that provide ideas, studies, services or applications using the datasets offered by the Junta on its portal. 4 Categories are available In addition to the traditional categories of "Ideas", "Products and Services" and "...