How might we discover new types of ownership, collaboration and problem-solving, by remixing solutions from the other teams in your favourite track (listed below), in order to create the highest possible impact for as many people as possible?

Imagine working with your classmates, leading experts and the best teams on

– Protecting the oceans. What if nature could speak for itself?
– A fossil free future. What if energy worked like the internet?
– Outcompeting destructive systems. What if we could clean the plastics from nature?
– Digital identity. Who are you on the Internet?
– Safe air cargo: help people around the world get the right medicine.
– Peace building: prevent war and human suffering. 

What happens at the Hackathon?

You will work together with the 5 international teams in your favourite challenge. Out of five solutions, you will pick the best elements, remix them, and turn it into a new solution. A new story.

You will dive into the problem, with companies like Vattenfall, KLM Cargo and VMware, and governmental institutes like the Dutch Ministry of Defense, Ministry of the Interior and EU, as well as NGOs like the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Business Plan for Peace, founded by three-time Nobel Prize Nominee Scilla Elworthy. It is people like Scilla, who has worked with Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Sir Richard Branson, who will be at the hackathon… working with you!

You have a unique challenge: understand the adult teams solutions and find out which parts you like and which parts you don’t want to use. Remix the parts you like into something new and BAM! a new solution is born. And because everything is open source, we can all learn from each other, collaborate and build bold new ideas together.

The ideas and legal principles of ownership are rooted in the 20th century: protect your idea, monopolize it, earn money and don’t get kicked-out of the market by someone who registers your invention before you do.

In order to solve the most pressing 21st-century problems, from plastic in the oceans to global warming, we need mass collaboration through new forms of cooperation. People, companies and governments struggle to establish this collaboration within the current ‘ownership’ protection of ideas paradigm: old habits die hard.

You are 10 to 18 years old and are literally not rooted in the 20th century. You can go beyond protesting against the 20th century to build on new forms of collaboration and ownership.