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\n\tNew technologies, digital tools and open innovation have enhanced humanity\u2019s ability to better monitor, protect and preserve cultural heritage during times of crisis and in the post-crisis era. The learning value of this unit lies in its detailed outline of the steps for an OI project that allows individuals and teams to use this knowledge and customise it in their specific context. All steps of the process are presented, from ideation, to design, implementation and assessment, giving the opportunity for anyone to get practical information about the various stages and the implications in terms of effort. The unit adopts the European Commission\u2019s definition of OI: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOpen Innovation is to open up the innovation process to all active players so that knowledge can circulate more freely and be transformed into products and services\u2026\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>(European Commission, 2016). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n \n\tAmong the various forms and expressions of OI, this unit focuses on a hackathon challenge that aims to combine OI with cultural heritage protection and preservation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n \n\tUnit 5 contains the following seven sections. Firstly, there is an introduction to the context of hackathons for cultural heritage, and then the EUSpace4Ukraine hackathon is presented. The next four sections deal with a description of teamwork based on a design framework for hackathons that goes from the outline of the strategy to the preparation and creation stage of a hackathon. Finally, the last section deals with the results of the teamwork, following a three-stage methodology for a successful citizen engagement process in hackathons.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n \n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \n\t5.1 Hackathons for cultural heritage<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n \n\tAlthough cultural heritage is a fundamental element of the history, tradition and cultural identity of a human community, there are fewer examples of hackathons related to Humanities and cultural heritage topics than examples focusing on business and information technologies. In most cases, narrow thinking over hackathons prevails and depicts them as brief events that comprise highly skilled and professional people coming together to resolve or produce sophisticated prototypes for mainly science and business-related issues. On the contrary, what hackathons have shown is that they can serve nearly all humanity\u2019s pressing issues, from science, to logistics, to education and cultural heritage. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n \n\tUndoubtedly, hackathons can bring true added value to the cultural sector as well by gathering creative minds, skilful individuals and the power of collective action towards the development of new solutions, ideas and practices. Whether a hackathon challenge leads to institutional change or capacity building, or it contributes to the expansion of an existing concept, the benefits it can bring to society are numerous and touch multiple frontiers. Nevertheless, hackathons dedicated to cultural heritage topics are still few in number. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n \n\tSimilarly, open innovation is a less common theme when it comes to CH as has been demonstrated in the O1 publication by the eCHOIng project<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>A search in hackathon portals is indicative of the situation as well.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n \n\tIn particular, in July 2022, we conducted a desktop search among big hackathon portals such as <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Taikai<\/a>, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Ultrahack<\/a>, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Devpost<\/a>, and <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Hackathon<\/a>. This research has brought to the fore that social and humanitarian topics were largely in the minority of topics offered by hackathon organisers. Thus, by taking the example of hackathons, it is evident that the open innovation dimension of cultural heritage is still rather underexplored.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n \n\tIn the coming section, an innovative Challenge for cultural heritage is presented. This Challenge was part of a hackathon for humanitarian aid that was run between June 29-July 1 2022 under the title EUSpace4Ukraine hackathon. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n \n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \n\t5.2 The #EUSpace4Ukraine initiative<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n \n\tWhen people think of space, and especially space data, their use in a humanitarian context may not be the first thing one thinks of. The hackathon \u201cEUSpace4Ukraine\u201d is exactly about this combination!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n