{"id":44754,"date":"2025-09-09T15:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44754"},"modified":"2025-09-11T18:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:01:51","slug":"sofia-tech-park-hosts-the-10th-edition-of-cassini-hackathons-mentoring","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/en\/news\/sofia-tech-park-hosts-the-10th-edition-of-cassini-hackathons-mentoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofia Tech Park Hosts the 10th Edition of CASSINI Hackathons &#038; Mentoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From November 7 to 9, Sofia Tech Park will host the 10th edition of CASSINI Hackathons &amp; Mentoring, organized by the European Commission and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA). The science and technology park is the first and, so far, the only Bulgarian organization to join the initiative. The hackathon will take place simultaneously in 10 countries: Belgium, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Poland, New Caledonia, and Slovakia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CASSINI Hackathons &amp; Mentoring offers participants a unique opportunity to develop solutions with high technological and social impact by providing access to resources, data, training, mentoring, and an international community of innovators in space technologies. The initiative is part of the EU Space Programme, which fosters innovation by using data and technologies from the Copernicus, EGNOS, and Galileo satellites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hackathon will be held at the Incubator Building, The Venue Hall, Sofia Tech Park. The competition in Bulgaria is expected to attract dozens of teams of students, young professionals, researchers, and entrepreneurs. As Bulgaria\u2019s first science and technology park, Sofia Tech Park develops activities in the fields of information and communication technologies, green energy, life sciences, and entrepreneurship. Among its priorities is also supporting the development of the space industry. \u201cWe are proud that Sofia Tech Park will host CASSINI Hackathons &amp; Mentoring, providing a platform for Bulgarian and European talents to transform their ideas into real high-tech innovations with international reach,\u201d commented Todor Mladenov, Executive Director of Sofia Tech Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Hackathon Themes:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Immersive Gameplay with Space Technologies and Data \u2013 using Galileo and satellite connectivity to enhance dynamic gameplay and create innovative mechanics.<\/li>\n<li>Space for Sports: Transform the Game \u2013 leveraging the European GNSS navigation system to improve athlete performance analysis and create impactful applications for fans.<\/li>\n<li>Beyond the Horizons: Rethinking Travel \u2013 using satellite imagery and Galileo for safe, sustainable, and personalized journeys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Who can participate?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No prior experience in space technologies or programming is required.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants can join individually or form teams during the event.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hackathon is open to all adults residing in the EU or in countries associated with the Horizon Europe programme.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An expert jury will evaluate the projects presented during the hackathon at Sofia Tech Park and will award the top three teams. The national first-place winner will represent Bulgaria at the European final, taking place on November 12, 2025. The European-level winner will receive \u20ac5,000, 100 hours of mentoring from professionals at the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), and many additional prizes. For the second-place winner, the prize is \u20ac3,000, and for the third-place winner \u2013 \u20ac1,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sofia Tech Park will also provide awards to the winners of the national hackathon:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>1st place <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 2 workstations at GROWORKING by Sofia Tech Park for one month, plus free access to seminars from the SEEIP incubation program for one year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>2nd place<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 20% discount on coworking packages at GROWORKING and free access to SEEIP trainings for one year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>3rd place<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 a corporate or product photoshoot from the Club House digital studio at Sofia Tech Park for promotional purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information and registration- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cassini.eu\/hackathons\/bulgaria?mtm_campaign=10CH_LO&amp;mtm_kwd=BG&amp;mtm_source=Newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-44752\" src=\"https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cassini_hackathon-10_1920x1080-general-info-1-1-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cassini_hackathon-10_1920x1080-general-info-1-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cassini_hackathon-10_1920x1080-general-info-1-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cassini_hackathon-10_1920x1080-general-info-1-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cassini_hackathon-10_1920x1080-general-info-1-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cassini_hackathon-10_1920x1080-general-info-1-1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44752,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"news-category":[475,409],"class_list":["post-44754","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-news","news-category-news-enselected-novini-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44754"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=44754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}