In this *special* episode, we are going to give tons of advice to hackathon participants on how to manage their time during a hackathon, how to make decisions as a team and how to stay on track during the course of a hackathon. We are also going to through the 5 steps of the design thinking process to see how they can be used to solve a challenge.

In this episode, we’re going to try to understand why and how to run a hackathon with 5 years old participants. We’re also going to talk about how to prepare kids for a hackathon, go through the scenarios, and eventually have a look at the expected outcomes.

Our guest: Vanessa Dubois, nursery teacher, European Schools

In this episode, we are going to try to understand the most efficient strategies to recruit participants to a hackathon, we are going to see if it’s possible to run a hackathon with literally no budget, and eventually, we are going to wander into the tech side and check the tools you need as a host to effectively run your hackathon.

Our guest: Simona Grande, researcher at the University of Torino

In this episode, we’re going to try to understand what lays behind the difficulty for learners to display and use social and emotional skills online. We will try together to find out how to create strategies and online environments that would help to increase the use of social and emotional skills in digital education.

Our guest: Cristina Riesen, founder and CEO of the Educreators Foundation

In this episode, we are going to talk about how the Digital Education Action Plan and the future of education in Europe.

We are going to explore the present and the future of education in Europe through the Digital Education Action Plan. We going to wander in the backstages of the European Commission and try to understand how education policies are decided, created and implemented.

Our guest: Dr Georgi Dimitrov, Acting Head of Digital Education at the European Commission.

In this episode, we are going to talk about the genesis of DigiEduHack: how it all started and what was the reason to create such an event using the particular format of a hackathon.

Our guest is Line Gry Knudsen, a learning and education specialist - and one of the masterminds behind DigiEduHack.

What exactly is DigiEduHack, how does it work, who can take part, who can be a host, who can be a participant and most importantly why joining the movement?

To talk about this, we have with us Ida Andersson, the project manager of DigieduHack.