Project title: Product Hackathons for Innovative Development
Acronym: PRO HACKIN’
Type of project: EU projects
Role: Coordinator
Financing: Erasmus+
Duration: 1.11.2021 – 31.10.2024
Project description:
The Pro Hackin’ project encompasses two main objectives: improving teaching and learning methods in engineering education and enhancing the collaboration between industry and universities. Through this project we will develop a methodology that will encourage open innovation between universities and companies. This will be achieved by implementing product hackathons in the otherwise linear product development process, as a key activity which enables rapid generation and sharing of ideas.
The objective of the project is to find the most appropriate tools that are easy to use and learn quickly. In addition, the tools need to be able to support efficient collaboration in physical and virtual environments in order to enable companies to involve participants working remotely from all over the globe. To address these concerns, in this project we will explore various digital technologies, especially the tools for virtual prototyping, conceptualization and collaboration in order to identify the most suitable ones for design applications.