The Estonian startup, Bike Box, the winner of a recent Garage48 hackathon, dedicated to wood, has created a basket that makes grocery transportation by bike more comfortable. The Estonian leading hackathon series, Garage48, organised the first-ever wood hackathon in Estonia and the Baltics on 20-22 October. The event, taking place at the Võru County Vocational […]
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Garage48 is to hold its first hackathon in Riga, the capital of Latvia, where its intense startup bootcamp will focus on hardware and arts. The hardware and arts Riga hackathon will take place from 29 September to 1 October as a part of EstLat Accelerate, a pre-acceleration programme, and it’s hosted by RTU Design Factory.
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A Garage48 hackathon, called “Tech for Humanity”, to be held in Tallinn, Estonia, will be devoted to finding innovative solutions to aid humanitarian catastrophes. Taking place on 9-11 June and organised by the Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol and Garage48 at the Tehnopol Startup Incubator, the Tech for Humanity hackathon is to focus on three areas:
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Garage48, the biggest hackathon in the Baltics, is looking for participants – current and future startup entrepreneurs – to take part in a data science challenge. The Baltic Open & Big Data 2017 hackathon, organised in collaboration with the telecommunications operator, Tele2, is going to take place from 19-21 May in Tallinn at Lift99 –
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If you need to say “We’re sorry, we messed up” to your customers, now there’s company, founded in Estonia, that helps you do it. Sometimes the unexpected can create a sensational feeling. It’s especially the case when someone goes the extra mile for you. Since Sorry As A Service, a startup founded in Tallinn and
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The Garage48 Open & Big Data 2016 hackathon, taking place in Tartu 21-23 October, aims to tap on the opportunities of open data – the black gold of information society. Cooperating with the Estonian ministry of economic affairs and the state’s Information System Authority, Garage48 welcomes participants to make their bold and practical solutions of
A recent SpaceTech hackathon in Tartu was won by Spaceprot Technologies, an Estonian company that develops protection against corrosion in space, in order to extend the lifespan of space technology. The growing space industry is creating a new environment and possibilities for a next generation of entrepreneurs and many of the today’s space discoveries will
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A Garage48 Hardware & Arts hackathon, devoted to building physical gadgets, was won by Genosity – an affordable gene testing machine that aims to have students learn about genetics at school by testing their own genes. Since 2010, the Tallinn-based organisation, Garage48, has been organising hackathons where participants create prototypes to test their business ideas
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At a Garage48 hackathon to develop technologies that could potentially help fight against human trafficking, the winner was a tool that scans online adverts to find potentially suspicious job offers that could lead to human trafficking. During the 48 hours of the Garage48 “Trafficking in Persons” hackathon, around 80 participants from Estonia, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, the United States, Russia, Armenia,
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From 18-20 September, Garage48 and the US State Department invite technologists, law enforcement, NGOs and others to join the fight against human trafficking – during a 48-hour hackathon, the participants will develop possible technological solutions that will help eradicate the scourge of modern slavery. According to Garage48, human trafficking is the third largest international crime
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