SDG Open Hack is an essential learning tool to inspire and educate the future leaders about sustainable development. Participants will gain insights about user-centered and goal-oriented innovation solutions. It creates an opportunity for participants with different expertise and cultural backgrounds to leverage resources beyond their disciplines and to iterate practical solutions through design sprints and fast-prototyping.
In partnership with United Nations Institutes for Training and Research (UNITAR), Open Geneva, University of Geneva, tertiary education institutions, universities and corporate partners in Singapore
The SDG Open Hack is an atypical hackathon that promotes innovation & entrepreneurship, cultivates leadership, creativity, mobility, international competence, and teamwork ability.
It is open to current tertiary education institutions and university students studying in Singapore, encourages cross institutions and disciplines to form a team to solve societal and/or environmental challenges, by way of learning 17 UN SDGs.
Students can freely choose challenge topics according to their interests, form an interdisciplinary innovation team online, and work hard to develop innovative solutions within 24 hours for challenges related to a certain field virtually.
No prep work, coding/programming skillset required. Join and have fun!
Selected teams will get to present to our panel of judges at the Grand Finale and Awards Ceremony.