A hackathon is an event where people get together and develop awesome projects in a short timespan. In the case of this hackathon, it will take place over a 30-hour timespan.

The theme of the 4th edition of the EUhackathon is ‘Increasing EU Democratic Participation’: how to get EU citizens more involved into the EU policy-making process, hence democratizing the process, and how to better analyse the contributions to such processes, hence increasing transparency.

Phase 1: Procedure to respond to the Call for Applications

Eligibility: The 2014 EUhackathon is open to all individuals who are at least 18 years old. Applicants under the age of 18 will be asked for parental authorisation evidence.

Deadline for Applications: You must submit your application using the online form by apply before 5 October 2014 midnight CET.

Participants: All eligible individuals can register to and participate in the 2014 EUhackathon, either as an individual participant or team up with other eligible participants. Team entries will require a designated team member taking up the formal role of ‘team captain’, acting as sole representative for all communication.

Result dissemination: Participants retain their copyright, but need to agree that their projects will be made available online for free to the community under a GPLv3 or Apache v2.0 license – as these licenses/versions have explicit patent releases built in.

Submission: Interested participants will be asked beforehand to submit a project proposal detailing the main features of their tool, the data to be collected, and the methods envisaged to do so. Participants will be allowed to choose to develop a new application from scratch or to improve and expand on the capabilities of existing open-source code projects available. The participants would be able to register individually or in small teams (3 to 5 people). Participants will be selected on the basis of the right mixture of skills (from development to graphics design).

Deliverables: Participants are expected to build user-friendly multi-platform tools.