Sweden-India Mobility Hackathon ended up with innovative winning solutions for Safe and Sustainable Transport. Winning, innovative transport solutions were felicitatedat the live-streamedaward ceremony of the ‘Sweden-India Mobility Hackathon’on March 3,2021organized by the Swedish Institute and supported by the Consulate General of Sweden in Mumbai and the Swedish Embassy in New Delhi.The closing ceremony concluded the 42-hour Hackathon (February 26-28, 2021)thatbrought together Swedish and Indian minds to co-create and execute futuristic solutions for global mobility challenges.
The winning teams will get an opportunity to collaborate with major Swedish and Indian companies/ institutes to further develop their ideas and implement the solutions for safe and sustainable transportation.
About 500 participants – students, entrepreneurs, innovation enthusiasts, developers, designers, engineers,
creative professionals and mobility experts – came together digitally from different geographies across Sweden
and India.
The participants were divided into 37 teams that worked on.The participants had access to a unique network of major Swedish/Indian companies/institutes and worked to solve questions based on open data
sources.
The teams received guidance from 76 mentors from both countries- professors, leaders, engineering,
transport and creative experts – to further developtheir solutions.A 48-member jury, comprising of experts for
specified challenge areas, selected winners with the most promising solutions for the future.
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