TEMPUS INNOVATHON  is an Open Innovation contest, a “marathon of ideas” to stimulate the participants with challenges aimed at contributing to innovation processes. Similar to hackathons, Innovathons are focused on finding innovative and creative solutions and drawing inspiration for new actions, products, and/or services. Participants are called upon to design an innovative project drawing on their technical knowledge, creativity, spirit of adaptation, problem-solving skills and teamworking attitude: during the event participants are grouped into teams and will have to collaborate to find shared solutions to the challenge, contributing their individual experience and differences and elaborate ideas collectively.

Target Groups -involving students and creatives aged 18 to 35

THE CHALLENGE: To design a product/service aimed at enhancing the tangible and intangible, natural and cultural heritage of port cities in the Adriatic area, selected and mapped by the TEMPUS project (see the dedicated Gmap). 

The participants can develop their product/service by elaborating on the following themes:
•    the Cultural Heritage's historical period and/or typology
•    type of temporary use
•    the relation between the Cultural Heritage and the temporary use it hosts
Each Partner can decide whether to assign the theme to work on to the participants or to leave them free to choose among the three.

Specifics: the event will last a total of 12 hours, including set-up time, breaks, etc., over the course of a single day, during the week of 27 February to 9th March 2023 in all 3 Pilot cities.