Sahlgrenska Global Health Hackathon - Spain
Welcome!
The Sahlgrenska Global Health Hackathon 2024-2025 is a unique event that brings together not only the life science industry but several other industries as well. We’re welcoming players from the healthcare industry, healthcare providers, clinicians, researchers and students, as well as professionals and students in AI, IT, and those engaged in biotechnology, health informatics, epidemiology, and other individuals around the world to help us generate ideas and solutions to address the global health challenges!
Why participate?
By participating in this hackathon you will benefit from:
- Get inspired by experts, mentors, and industry experts in health tech, MedTech, biotech, and pharma, along with seasoned leaders from prestigious startup incubators.
- Broaden your professional connections.
- Contributing to solving the global health challenges
- Display your skills to top organizations.
The brightest ideas will receive recognition at the Grand Final on 13 October 2025 in Gothenburg!
How to participate
Here’s how the Hackathon works:
1️⃣Register for the hackathon!
- Click on the “Register Now” button and fill in the form.
2️⃣Explore the 5 challenges for this hackathon
- You can find them at the end of this page
3️⃣Create or join a Team and submit your initial idea
- Register before the end of the phase "⭕Registrations close" and join a team before the end of the phase "❌Team formation close and 💡idea description submission” and submit your initial idea description on Eventornado.
4️⃣Compete in the 2-day in-person Hackathon!
- You’ll develop your idea for the hackathon with your team and your mentors during the weekend!
Where?
The hackathon will take place in Barcelona!
How to register and leverage the Eventornado platform
Video timeline
- 00:00 - Intro
- 00:28 - How to find your local hackathon event
- 00:50 - The home tab, the timeline, the live sessions tab, and the challenges description
- 02:00 - How to register
- 05:19 - How to join the Event Chat (Discord)
- 05:55 - The Event Chat (Discord)
- 06:14 - How to find a team on the #find_your_team channel
- 07:25 - How to create a team as a team leader
- 10:00 - The Hack Guide
- 11:22 - How to find a team on the "Ideas" tab
- 12:13 - How to submit the deliverables during the hackathon
- 13:05 - How to receive support to leverage Eventornado
Prizes
One representative from the winning team at each Sahlgrenska Global Health Hackathon location will be invited to Gothenburg, Sweden, in October 2025 to participate in the final award ceremony at the Nordic Life Science Days (NLSDays) conference. This prestigious event offers a unique opportunity to pitch their idea to potential partners and investors.
As winners, teams will not only gain valuable exposure through pitching and exhibition opportunities but also receive business coaching and a monetary award from a total prize pool of up to EUR 15,000.
NLSDays is a premier annual gathering for Europe’s life science community, providing an exceptional platform to network, showcase innovations, and explore business opportunities.
Global Partners
Local Partners
timeline
- ✅Registration and team formation start
- ❌ Team formation close and 💡idea description submission
- ️⚗️Weekend hackathons starts
- 📃 Deliverable 1 // One page summary
- 🗃️️ Deliverable 2 // Presentation
- 🎞️ Deliverable 3 // High-level video
- [OPTIONAL] 🔗 Deliverable 4 // Supporting evidence link
- 👩⚖️ Teams' evaluation
- 🎉 Spain hackathon finalist announced
Challenges
Challenge 1 - Health equality
Challenge 1 - Health equality: bridging gender and ethnicity gaps in access to careHow can we think outside the box to leverage personalized medicine and data to close gender and ethnicity health gaps
Challenge 2 - Co-action to F*@# Cancer
Challenge 2 - Co-action to F*@# CancerHow can we act collaboratively to leverage personalized medicine and data to predict, monitor, and personalize cancer treatment, reducing its global impact?Live s
Challenge 3 - Forever vital
Challenge 3 - Forever vital: innovating solutions for healthy agingHow can we leverage personalized medicine and AI to enhance chronic disease management and support healthy aging in a rapidly growing
