In 2019, we are building new partnerships to implement the Ideate Impact strategy. We invite different stakeholders like universities, student’s associations, municipalities and companies to join us in our efforts of hacking for good. We offer support to these organizations in setting up their own hackathons with a social purpose.

By inspiring and mentoring others to include a social mission in their hackathons, we aim to maximise our collective impact.

The focus of the Ideate Impact Strategy:

• Showing tech people that they can use their talent to solve social issues;
• Activating creativity and finding tech-based solutions for relevant social issues;
• Achieving minimum viable products and finding partners and start thinking on a scalable and sustainable business plans;
• Build a community of practice on using hackathons in the tech for good ecosystem. 

In 2019, we started partnerships with four established hackathons in Portugal. Through these partnerships, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has been helping these hackathons by offering participants a more diverse range of challenges (on top of the usual tech-based or finance-based challenges) and including social challenges too.

The tech community now has four relevant hackathons in the country where people can join and use their talents and competition skills, while also doing something they really care about and changing the world.