52°North Student Innovation Challenge 2024

Win 2.500 € for a proof of concept!

52°North announces the Student Innovation Challenge 2024 - Searchability in Research and Spatial Data Infrastructures (RDI/SDI)!

Search functionality in Research and Spatial Data Infrastructures (RDI/SDI) is generally limited to a metadata-based approach. However, geospatial data - whether vector-based or raster-based - contains a lot of interesting data that can currently only be identified by looking at the individual dataset. The challenge of this year's Innovation Prize is to develop a concept and a possible implementation that allows searching within datasets of and RDI/SDI, e.g. on the attribute level. Many interesting aspects must be considered: e.g., technical solutions, taxonomies and semantics, language/i18n, searching in raster data, and many more.

52°North invites students (e.g., BSc, MSc, or PhD) of Geoinformatics, Informatics or related fields to submit a proposal that outlines the project idea, emphasizes its innovative quality and convincingly describes its feasibility, practical use and expected outcome. Up to two strong proposals will then be invited to implement a proof of concept. Upon successful completion of the project(s) (including a working proof of concept implementation), the proposal(s) will be awarded EUR 2,500.

Application submission deadline is April 8, 2024.
Members of our Geoinformatics team will be part of the jury!

More information and Call for Proposals (http://52north.org/innovationprize)

*The 52°North Student Innovation Prize promotes student contributions to the development and practical realization of innovative concepts in geoinformatics.