The competing teams worked with great enthusiasm and determination to develop their ideas in only three days, combining data from EMODnet portals, but also from other sources such as CMEMS and ICES. This was no ordinary hackathon with organisers from EMODnet, VLIZ and imec on-hand, participants were able to avail of expert-led workshops and one-on-one training to improve their data manipulation, business-modelling, user-testing and pitching skills. During 3 days, Participants from 15 countries with diverse backgrounds and skill sets, came together to ideate and co-create innovative solutions to unique problems using EMODnet’s wealth of marine data and services. In 2017, EMODnet held its first Open Sea Lab, a hackathon to explore EMODnet's open marine data.
