The ENNEPlus Eco-Digithon is an educational marathon primarily targeting Vocational Education and Training (VET) centers, focused on creating and prototyping innovative digital and technological solutions to real societal and local problems.
It involves a competition within and among VET centers and/or VET teams on environmental and sustainability challenges. Indeed, the solutions developed are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ensuring a global perspective on local challenges.
It also promotes grassroots innovation through a participatory and multidisciplinary approach as it engages not only VET centers but also stakeholders, policy-makers, companies, members of the academia and experts coming together for social hacking.
Eco-digithon Methodology
Besides combining three out of the four priorities of the Erasmus+ programme, the EcoDigithon is closely aligned with key European Union strategies and policies, proving to be a relevant initiative for achieving the goals of the European Green Deal (EGD), the Digital Agenda for Europe, and the European Innovation Agenda.
It is expected to organise 2 Eco-Digithon editions, one in 2025 and one in 2026, in each Country represented in the ENNEPlus project: Italy, Spain, Portugal and Austria. The 2026 edition will be open also to teams from different EU and extra-EU Countries.
Applications for the first round of Eco-Digithons are open from the 30st of September to the 20th of December 2024.
