Join the Barcelona NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2023 with the IEEC

NASA International Space Apps Challenge, one of the world’s leading hackathons, will return to Barcelona (Campus 42, carrer d’Albert Einstein 11, 08042) on 6, 7 and 8 October 2023. This will be the second time the city will host the hackathon’s local event.

Strongly focused at its inception (2012) on space science and technology, the NASA International Space Apps Challenge has gradually diversified to include challenges related to other fields such as the arts. This fact has contributed to its growing popularity. 

Indeed, the 2022 edition gathered 31,561 participants – 5,327 teams – in more than 323 local events held simultaneously in 162 countries, making it undisputedly one of the leading annual global hackathons.

Within the Talent and Society programme of Catalonia’s NewSpace Strategy, the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) is collaborating as a sponsor and will provide mentors and participants who want to join a team and compete to develop the best solutions for the challenges raised for this year’s edition.

These challenges are very varied and set goals such as designing a virtual reality application that allows you to immerse yourself in a space mission; generating an interactive map of the Moon by using geophysical data from the Apollo missions or creating digital art with  Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. All solutions should be based on open data from NASA and its associated space agencies.

Anyone interested in space, technology, coding, science, digital art, communications, or storytelling can participate, regardless of their background, training or career path.     

More than eleven space agencies from around the world, such as the European Space Agency (ESA), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) are participating in this initiative organised by NASA’s Earth Science Division, in collaboration with its Open Innovation Initiative and its Applied Sciences Program. 

Sign up and experience this spectacular collaborative event, where you will meet amazing people and contribute to create solutions to improve life both on Earth and in space.

Goals:

To promote collaboration, creativity and critical thinking to foster the growth and diversity of the next generation of professional men and women in science, technology, design, storytelling or engineering.