ANFIA Next Mobility Hackathon 2022

ANFIA and its Members, in order to enhance innovative ideas, organize a second Hackathon event in the Automotive sector. The event will take place on web platform / that will allow both communication, collection of ideas and the awarding of the finalists. Always on the web platform, with the support of social media, registered users will have the opportunity to vote for the most interesting proposals in order to draw up a ranking with the community opinion. This ranking will be delivered to the jury that will take it into account during the final evaluation, as indicated in art. 3.1 below.

The selection of the most deserving proposals will be entrusted to a special external jury composed of members from the academic and business world.

For any organizational needs, ANFIA reserves the right to change the day, time and location of the event, giving notice in advance to participants.

The ANFIA Next Mobility Hackathon has as main goal to collect, share and evaluate all the innovative ideas and projects oriented to develop new ways of understanding the means of transport (car, motorcycle, collective transport, etc..) both from the point of view of design, to be understood as a user experience, and from the technological point of view, understood as the introduction of sensors and / or highly innovative HW / SW systems, facilitating the possible and desirable development with the involvement of ANFIA members and / or sponsors of the initiative.

Participants will have to imagine and design solutions to improve the relationship between technology and usability: more in detail, which kind of impacts will have alternative mobility models in the near future, where to find connected and shared cars and where the concept of driving must be associated with practicality and simplicity ones.

The topics on which the event is focused are about the main trends in the automotive sector, to which we must add new requirements such as those related to health safety issues. Starting points are certainly the topics under the acronym CASE (Connected, Autonomous, Shared and Electric). Participants will have to submit proposals with significant impact on autonomous and connected driving, interaction on board vehicles both on the design and technology sides, considering as an additional element zero/low emission mobility, therefore not only electrically powered but also hydrogen and hybrid. Participants will have to think in a futuristic perspective, trying to imagine the mobility of the future. The proposal may also refer to solutions applicable in smart city contexts where micro-mobility solutions are increasingly used for short-range travel.

Participants must be organized in multidisciplinary teams, with both technical and business skilled members. Each team can be composed of a maximum of 5 persons.

Participants can register directly as a team (max 5) or as an individual (single), taking the advantage of the “partner search” option made available.

Documents should submit with:

• Idea and rationale behind the study
• Scientific-technological state of the art;
• Main and secondary scope (if identified)
• Innovations pursued (product or process)
• Technical-economic sustainability
• Spillovers, expected impacts and dissemination/applicability of results

More information is available on the event website www.nextmobilityhackathon.com.

Proposals can be submitted from March 1^st to June 20^th 2022. During this time, participants can upload their application through the website http://www.nextmobilityhackathon.com and filling out the application form. Proposals must be submitted by team leader in PDF format and must not exceed 20Mb.

Participants, by accepting these regulations, declare to be aware of the civil and criminal liability arising from false statements provided at the time of registration and therefore guarantee that the personal information provided during registration is true.

Participants also declare that any decision made by the Organizing Body regarding the event will be unconditionally accepted. Selected participants will receive confirmation of their participation into the event by email to the address indicated on the registration form. If the address given will be incorrect or if it would not be possible to deliver the email, the participant will be automatically excluded. To all participants will be sent an automatic email confirmation of registration and receipt of the proposal in competition.

For admitted participants will be proceeded, during the welcome phase, to the verification of the personal information submitted during the registration.

The incompleteness and / or the wrongness of the information submitted during the registration will end with the exclusion of the candidate from the competition.

Participants undertake not to submit applications that have already been submitted to other similar initiatives, otherwise they will be excluded from the competition. The Jury reserves the right to carry out checks to verify the originality of the proposal.

For the collection of proposals, participants will be able to upload the project directly on the www.nextmobilityhackathon.com website, that will allow the selection of ideas. This is a virtual phase that will allow to reduce the event to a single day of meetings and presentations to which will follow the awarding of the best projects.

Participants must submit project ideas which describe, through in-depth analysis, the technical and economic feasibility of a product/service without a concrete implementation and/or demonstration.