Innovation Events

October 15, 2020 / Last updated : October 19, 2020 Johanna Aaltonen Innovation Events

Cookbook to manage special characteristics of EO data within hackathons and iterative development of service ideas

The BalticSatApps Cookbook of Successful Short-term Events provides an extensive description about how short-term events can be operated in order to identify ideas that exploit remote sensing and Earth Observation (EO), enrich these, and transform them into sustainable business solutions. The publication is a “cookbook” by way of exhaustively describing what are the different stakeholder […]
August 11, 2020 / Last updated : October 13, 2020 Johanna Aaltonen Acceleration Programmes

BalticSatApps Success Stories: GlobKids, Poland

In November 2018, the Educational Team of Instructors in Kreatikon Company in Poland near Krakow discovered, how deep the European Space Agency´s (ESA) resources are. Training for teachers has shown to the team that knowledge about space can be transferred using Lego education, Scratch programming and Raspberry Pi electronics. Their business dream is to launch […]
June 8, 2020 / Last updated : June 8, 2020 Johanna Aaltonen Innovation Events

BalticSatApps Online Hackathon June 18–24, 2020 – great test for new ideas for short-term events!

Satellite Data Hackathon online? Never gonna happen, except now it will! A hackathon has be considered as an event of any duration where people come together and form groups for problem solving. And where the getting-together has been an important source of that special positive energy. The Covid-19 pandemic of the spring 2020 made it […]
January 8, 2020 / Last updated : January 8, 2020 Johanna Aaltonen Innovation Events

BalticSatApps was partly interacting with OceanHack 2019 winning team led by Junior Research Fellow of Tartu Observatory

The winning team IceWise plans to combine Sentinel-1 data with ice thickness measurements made by citizens. Part of the app would be a map where layers with different data could be displayed on. For example, the map could show if there is any ice cover as well as the type of the ice. The satellite […]
December 13, 2019 / Last updated : December 13, 2019 Johanna Aaltonen Innovation Events

First time organized WeSeaChallenge succeeded great!

WeSeaChallenge idea competition aimed to produce novel solutions for supporting the sustainable planning and monitoring of marine environment by applying Copernicus-based satellite data used together with other sources of information. The idea competition was aimed to higher education students and other diverse talents around the Baltic Sea inspired by science, business, technology, design, communications, or […]
January 30, 2019 / Last updated : January 30, 2019 Johanna Aaltonen Innovation Events

Space contest and Sustainable Development Goals at Antler program for start-up founders

As part of the work to promote the ESA BIC Sweden, the Swedish National Space Agency participated in Stockholm on 28 January 2019 in a 24-hour business development and pitch contest at Antler. The Antler program fosters and identifies becoming start-up founders and was started by some of the early investors in Spotify. There are 66 […]