The 2024 AFRAN Hackathon is coming!

The Australian-French Association for Research and Innovation (AFRAN) Inc and the Embassy of France to Australia are organizing a French-Australian innovation hackathon to address environment challenges with all-field of research brains. The Hacking the Environment: Climate, Energy, Health, Social Sciences... and you! event is supported by the Department of Industry, Science and Resources and organised with the Canberra Innovation Network (CBRIN) and La French Tech as valuable partners.

Research and innovation play a crucial role in addressing the critical challenges of the 21st century. This Hackathon will lead groups of 4-5 PhD students/young professionals from research ideas to the creation of their innovative company. They will experience the potential for translation of an innovative idea and discover that the business culture functions as an incubator for research creativity. Finally, they will learn to establish a dialogue between the complexity of research and the empirical experience of the market. The hackathon will last two days, divided into learning phases, creation phases and breaks. At the end, each group will pitch their company project in front of a panel of sponsors.

Program highlights:

Day 1 - @ANU Fuilton Muir Building

• 9am: Opening, Welcoming the participants

• 10.30am: Idea generation - scientific and societal trends

• 1.30am: How to create a business model canvas

• 4.30pm: Conclusion of the day

  
  

Day 2 - @ANU Fuilton Muir Building

• 9am: Regulations and policy environment

• 10.30am: Budgeting and financial forecast

• 1pm: The art of pitching

• 4pm: Presentation of the projects

• 6pm: Reception at the Embassy of France to Australia to announce the winners

You're a business or a philantrope and you see here an opportunity to make a donation to encourage our young community to shine, please contact us.

You're a PhD student, a young professional or a business that want to present a team of PhD/young engineer, the call for application is open until the 15th of October, just follow the link. `