ActInSpace® is an international innovation contest initiated by the French Space Agency (CNES) uniting over 100 cities across 5 continents. ActInSpace® is supported by ESA (European Space Agency) and the ESA Business Incubation Centres network.

ActInSpace is a unique opportunity for participants worldwide to work on creating business prospectives for the challenges by the use of patents, technologies and satellite data made available by CNES, ESA, Airbus and all international partners to create new and innovative start-ups.
The challenges are based on high-level technologies, which nevertheless are easy to re-use because they have been selected due to their potential for commercial applications.
Visoriai Information Technology Park will host ActInSpace for the second time in Lithuania. It will be held on 18th – 19th of November. Participants will be coached, advised and encouraged by technical and business experts to transform ideas into a winning business concepts in just 24 hours hackathon.
The ActInSpace Lithuania team – winner – will participate in the International final in Cannes with chances to win a zero – gravity flight (Airbus 310 Zero G).
The space innovations will transform the world in the coming decade. This is your chance to unleash your entrepreneurial potential and be a part of “space renaissance”

Agenda

• KICK-OFF. November 18 (Friday), 13:00 – 13:30 Welcoming message & competition rules
• CHECK-POINT #1. November 18 (Friday), 13:30 – 15:00  Intro of mentors and teams
• HACKATHON. November 18 (Friday), 15:00 – November 19 (Saturday), 15:00  Working in teams with help of mentors (duration: 24 hours)
• CHECK-POINT #2. November 19 (Saturday), 10:00 – 10:30  Pitch tips, rules & teams progress updates.
• PITCH in front of the jury. November 19 (Saturday), 15:00 – 16:30 Team pitch in front of the jury. 5-8 minutes for each team & Q&A with the jury 5 min for each team.
• AWARD ceremony. November 19 (Saturday), 17:00 – 18:00  Award ceremony.

Reservation: here 

Date: 18th – 19th of November

For more information: space@vitp.lt or rasa@vitp.lt