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During the two full days of hacking participants were incredibly busy building their new products. The energy was high and the windowless basement with intense mood lighting made everyone down there lose track of time and place. It was for intents and purposes its own secluded universe.
It was a mad dash for teams to finish not only their products but also perfect their pitches. Pitches are an extremely important aspect of the Europeana Space hackathons. They inform the judges on several key aspects most importantly being "who's going to use this?". eSpace's goals are to create jobs and deliver 6 sustainable products by the end of the project.
With that said, after a long deliberation process the jury decided upon 3 winners who will move onto the eSpace Business Modeling Workshop in London out of which 1 winner will be chosen for incubation.
Without further ado, the winners of the Europeana Space Hack the Book Festival are:
- SinkAFutre
- Vivlio
- CookLee
Each project is extremely different from the other and all projects presented at the hackathon showed a wide swath of diversity amongst the participants' thinking. This perfectly shows the possibilities in store for the written word and text.
We look forward to exploring how the three projects during the next Business Modeling Workshop in London.
Image credit: Onassis Cultural Centre