€400,000 in prizes in Europe’s biggest app challenge
In Europe’s biggest ever app challenge, the EU is offering €400,000 in prizes to the best new applications that help build smarter cities and smarter businesses.
Campus Party, the world’s largest ‘geek forum’, will manage the contest, judged by specialised engineers from the EU-funded FI-WARE Consortium. The only condition of the competition is that app entries should build on the building blocks deployed in the EU’s project to build the core platform of tomorrow’s internet.
Fifty of these existing building blocks already exist and are freely available through the FI-WARE Open Innovation Lab for developers to experiment with. They provide generic functions that can be used by a wide range of different applications from all kinds of sectors, like cloud hosting, big data analysis, identity management or the Internet of Things. This app challenge seeks to enable services based on those building blocks.
Categories comprise ‘Smart Cities’ and ‘Smart Business & Industry’. Individuals, small businesses and web entrepreneurs can enter the competition; entries close on 20 December 2013.
