Hackathon-2020 - Eastern Partnership Civil Society Facility

In response to the changed environment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 EaP Civil Society Ideathon and Hackathon was organised online for the first time in June-July 2020.

This year through the Call for Applications for Ideas of Digital Solutions we received 78 applications and shortlisted 32 ideas for digital solutions from civil society activists to participate in the Regional Ideathon.

The 2020 Online Regional Ideathon, took place from the 12th to the 28^th of June. For two weeks civil society activists worked online with the mentors to improve and further develop their ideas. On the last days of the Ideathon, after the final pitching 16 ideas were selected for the next stage: Online EaP Civil Society Hackathon.

For another three weeks 16 teams worked with designers, IT experts and mentors to develop the prototypes of mobile applications, online games and platforms to solve a wide range of problems in the Eastern Partnership countries. On the 1st of August the teams had their final pitches and the project team, mentors and other participants voted to select ideas of digital solutions to be nominated for the Digitalisation for Civil Society Award. This year, 7 solutions were nominated for the Award and two winners were selected. The winning teams receive funding from the EU for the full-fledged development and launch of their solutions and will be launched in early 2021:

Donor.online Platform (Moldova)

Donor.online web-platform supports the development of blood donation in Transnistria, Moldova, motivating people to donate blood and helping people in need to find a donor. The platform addresses the problem of donor blood shortage, monitors local blood banks and sends timely notifications to registered users with suitable profiles, requesting to donate blood.

The platform also allows people in crisis (blood recipients and their relatives) to search for the blood they need not in social networks, but on a secure specialized portal. Donation history and other data in profiles of registered users help healthcare professionals to prepare donors for a new donation.

SaveUs Charity Platform (Belarus)

The SaveUs tool is a charity platform to protect animals’ rights in Belarus. It will become an all-in-one solution helping volunteers and animal shelters advertise pets for fostering and adoption, raise funds for animals’ medical care and report on the money spent in an easy, transparent, and effective way. It will allow volunteers and organizations to launch individual fundraising campaigns and post announcements about the animals in need they are taking care of now.

The platform is aimed to save volunteers’ time and help them focus only on saving the animals, leaving all administrative work behind. They will be required only to provide proofs of expenses incurred, and everything else – from the daily technical management to traffic acquisition – will be on the side of the Saveus platform team.

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You can also check a series of webinars delivered within the 2020 EaP Civil Society Hackathon:

Small Tech and Site.js by Aral Balkan and Laura Kalbag from Small Technology Foundation, Ireland. Aral and Laura advocate for and build small technology to protect personhood and democracy in the digital network age.
Presenting Your Project: Brief and Clear by Roman Gluck, IT Project Manager, UX designer, Moldova (available only in Russian)
Understanding Your Target Audience as a Key Component in Developing Your Product by Yuliya Khlashchankova, External Communications and Project Management Consultant, Belarus (available only in Russian).
Swallows: Spring in Bishkek Mobile Game by Maria Sereda and Irina Leu, Game Co-Creators. Maria and Irina talk about game design, trick in developing educational games and secrets of getting almost 70,000 downloads within a month (available only in Russian).