Every year, EU Datathon calls for innovators from around the world to come up with new ways of using open data to address important societal and environmental challenges, with the condition that they use at least one of the thousands of data sets published on data.europa.eu.

Over the five years of its existence, the competition has generated dozens of practical apps and propelled new start-up enterprises.

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European Commissioner for budget and administration, Johannes Hahn, and Director-General of the EU Publications Office, Hilde Hardeman, will open the event. We are delighted to welcome expert speakers from across the globe--including Angela Morelli (InfoDesignLab), Stefaan Verhulst (The GovLab), and Renata Avila (Open Knowledge Foundation)—and from the EU institutions—Reet Sommer (European Parliament), Manuela Cruz (Publications Office of the EU), and Thomas Gottron (European Central Bank). The event will be streamed online to allow our teams´ supporters and open data enthusiasts from around the world to participate.

Help choose the Public Choice Award winner 

Teams will demonstrate their apps live, and participants will choose the winner of the Public Choice Award. Visit the EU Datathon website to read more about our finalists´ apps, choose your favourite and vote for them on the day of the finals.

The final event of EU Datathon 2022 is open for registration. Book your place now!

Discover the 12 finalist teams

Empowering young people on the job market, reducing greenhouse emissions, and bringing European cultural heritage closer to citizens, these are some of the ambitions put forward by the teams selected to continue on to the finale of this year’s EU Datathon, the EU’s open data competition.

EU Datathon 2022 was launched in February, inviting all data enthusiasts worldwide to propose ideas for applications using open data from data.europa.eu, the official portal for European data. Those interested were invited to propose applications addressing one of four important societal challenges facing us today.

A record number of 156 proposals, from 121 teams and 38 countries all over the world was received. The pre-selection jury shortlisted 24 teams who were invited to further elaborate on their original ideas. On that basis, the jury has now selected the 12 finalist teams. Congratulations to the finalists! Well done to all other teams who made it to this point!

More info about MyBioEUBuddy (with a team from Montenegro!)

My BioEUBuddy helps farmers and local governments find and follow the example of their ‘EU buddy region’ that is classified as a top organic producer. Supporting organic farming with open data.

More about the app in the interview with the team (Tamara Mitrovic, Biljana Vujovic, Nikola Damjanovic). To find out more, there is also a 1-minute video.