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| The scientific competition, which is held at El Luzzy this weekend, will face five multidisciplinary teams against different technological challenges to improve the sustainability of the seas | The Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center in Cartagena is hosting this weekend, from October 9 to 11, the fifth edition of the Ocean Hackathon, which has been organized by the Cartagena Oceanographic Research Institute (CORI).
It is a scientific competition held for the first time in Spain, and which will bring together various research teams in the port city for 48 hours, which will measure their skill in devising new scientific-technological tools that contribute to the improving the sustainability of the ocean and its marine ecosystems.The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, has indicated that “it is the first time that this scientific competition has been held in a Spanish city and Cartagena has been chosen to host it.
During this weekend we will become a benchmark for maritime innovation, thus helping to raise awareness about our Mar Menor and the Mediterranean throughout the world.This has been possible thanks to the sponsorship of the Cartagena City Council, the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), Europe Direct Región de Murcia, Innova Oceanografía Litoral, Navantia and SABIC and collaborators such as the Cartagena Port Authority, SAES, Primafrio, COEC, STEM Talent and the CEEIC of Cartagena.The participants enrolled in the Ocean Hackathon 2020 are professionals and students from disciplines as different as oceanography, biology, engineering, robotics or design, who will face five different challenges about the ocean such as the geolocation of seahorses, the improvement of the safety of the divers in the dives, the recovery of oceanographic buoys, the study of the impact of the moorings on the oceanic posidonia or the awareness among the youngest of the need to protect the oceans."The Ocean Hackathon aims to be committed to the scientific and technological talent of the Region, as well as innovation in issues as important to us as the protection and sustainable development of the oceans", recalled the first mayor.Similarly, the co-founder and project manager of CORI, Francisco López Castejón, has announced that during the afternoon of Friday, October 9, the teams will be formed and the challenges will be presented and that on Saturday the participants will work telematically in sessions group.Already during the day on Sunday, each team will present its conclusions and a jury, made up of different experts in innovation and oceanography, will be in charge of selecting the winning challenge.The team selected at the Ocean Hackathon in Cartagena will travel for free to the French city of Brest, where they will have to defend their technological challenge against those of twelve other cities in the international final organized each year by the Campus Mondial de la Mer (France).The Cartagena Oceanographic Research Institute (CORI), in support of scientific vocations among girls, has promoted the participation in this event of a group of four High School students, belonging to the STEM Talent Association, who develop technological projects with positive social impact .
Under the name of 'Technofighters', the students between 12 and 13 years old will develop, out of competition, an app that, using games and augmented reality, can help children and young people to understand the marine ecosystem and promote new applications that improve their conservation.Since last June, the Cartagena Oceanographic Research Institute (CORI) has received proposals that will become challenges to improve the ocean from institutions such as the UPCT, the UMU, the Hippocampus Association, the Diveapp company or groups such as that of divers from Cabo de Palos or STEM Talent.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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