Efficient team work

Under this challenge, we aim at addressing issues such as:

• improving productivity working at home
• improve communication
• tracking remote work
• teambuilding during remote work
• how to enable more wide-spread teleworking?

New and resilient business models

Under this challenge, we aim at addressing issues such as:

• support in swiftly shifting production / service delivery to address the current needs (e.g. protective equipment)
• tools and new business models too allow the service sector (e.g. tourism and horeca) to keep providing value to customers
• easy tools to help start-ups and SMEs move online
• new business models or ideas which would consider other big crisis, while creating jobs to recover from the economic crisis created by Covid-19.
• quick and efficient job matching, to allow a match between rapidly changing jobs supply and demand, including for seasonal work and with priority for critical sectors (health, agriculture and food supply chain, etc.)
• use of open source platform for e-commerce for click-and-collect online commerce services for free to any small and medium businesses.
• to develop online platforms that enable customers to purchase solidarity vouchers to support their local SMEs

Value chains & logistics

Under this challenge, we aim at addressing issues such as:

• reconfiguring value chains - quickly adapt businesses to position themselves in changing value chains, find new suppliers and customers in a changing economy
• logistics and value chains develop systems that allow users to better adapt their stock management and logistics to quickly adapt to changing demand and circumstances (e.g. border checks within the EU)

Protecting employees

Under this challenge, we aim at addressing issues such as:

• systems to allow companies to re-think the deployment of their workforce, to ensure their safety and minimise physical contact while ensuring efficiency both during the transition period out of the crisis and in the medium term.
• quick and affordable disinfection systems for offices, shared spaces and public transport.
• easy decontamination of public spaces, offices, homes etc. (use of alternative methods; not only of classical disinfection liquids)

Demonstrate purpose

Under this challenge, we aim at figuring out how to support response efforts and companies re-profiling by:

• shifting production to create medical equipment
• match find & fit a solution & challenge - develop tools to match developed harvest the solutions that are immediately available and scalable to be provided urgently to hospitals, and other relevant players, such as businesses, clusters, public authorities etc.
• European Industrial value chains analysis, reinforcing, flexibilization, redesign
• Upskilling and reskilling plans for an exit strategy
• Collaborative ways to speed up production processes
• 3D printing capabilities in Europe inventory
• How Smart Cities can fight COVID19

Stay close to your customers

Under this challenge, we aim at figuring out how to help business to become digital. It should address also traditional (artisanal, local) and adjust their capabilities to stay in the market.

Other

e.g applications, methods, hardware relevant for this category. The above challenges are just suggestions. Feel empowered to get creative!

Protection of isolated & risk groups

Under this challenge, we aim at addressing critical issues such as:

• protection of those helping - e.g remote medical controllers for personal health of those isolated, food delivery systems, cabin fever relieve, applications for reporting symptoms.
• support regarding economic issues - e.g. basics providing for those with no financial possibilities
• support regarding social issues - e.g. fast accommodation solutions for those in domestic conflicts distress.
• locating vulnerable population communities.
• mapping vulnerable people and their needs.
• connection of volunteers with vulnerable people to support their needs.
• apps for the public to inform themselves about the Covid situation and to report symptoms would also be useful.
• psychological distress relive

Mitigating fake news spreading

Under this challenge, we aim at addressing critical issues such as:

• automatic systems for filtering fake news.
• automatic systems to inform authorities about the existence of fake news for its deletion.
• automatic system to inform citizens about the existence of a fake news.
• reliable source of information - where the public can inform themselves about the Covid situation (maybe also locally)
• Collection of data + central information/news

Support arts & entertainment

With 30% of the world’s population under lockdown, we aim at addressing issues such as:

• restore citizen’s trust when attending future cultural events. This is a challenge post-lockdown, but worth to start thinking about how to ensure people will go again to museums, bars etc
• cultural agenda’ dissemination. Many cultural events are taking place virtually, but not everyone is aware of them. How to ensure it arrives to a great audience?
• formats of creative expression (e.g. for artists, musicians)
• Games

Fight against crime

Under this challenge, we aim at addressing critical issues such as:

• identification of human trafficking victims affected by this crisis
• assistance to crime victims, especially in the context of domestic violence
• cybersecurity to protect hospitals, research centers, private companies and idividuals particularly vulnerable at this time to cyber threats

Protection of citizens & democracy

Under this challenge, we aim at addressing critical issues such as:

• analysis of crisis impact in citizens’ wellbeing, with special focus on mental health and issuing of the clear recommendations.
• dealing with, and supporting lonely vulnerable people such as elderly, mentally fragile people, or people coming from a difficult socio-economic background.
• They do not always have access to Internet, not always have a family or friends they can rely on. What can be done to help, support and reach out to those people?

Developing people-driven economies

Under this challenge, we aim at addressing issues such as:

• new economic models (crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, etc)
• alternative and quick response finance: pooling resources (money) from different contributors (citizens, SME's, foundations, governments, impact investors) to fund local solutions (match funding vehicles).
• new infrastructures (distributed networks, fablabs, third spaces, etc.)
• new governance model (collective decision making, co-decision)
• preparing the after-covid given habits changes due to increased level of autonomy (people had to learn to stay home, organize their time, etc)

Other

Under this challenge, we aim at addressing issues such as:

• to develop an interactive platform to enable citizens gain easy access up-to-date access to information and data on what EU-support programs with a focus on COVID-19 response
• a system for sharing, in a secure and convenient way, trustworthy information on health data between citizens and authorities which support the better management of COVID19 crisis

The above challenges are just suggestions. Feel empowered to get creative!

E-Learning methods & tools

Under this challenge, we aim at addressing issues related to:

• monitoring of students’ learning process
• examinations
• online interactions/ group learning
• data and privacy issues
• limited access to educational material

Efficient remote working

Under this challenge, we aim at addressing issues related to:

• mental and physical health for teleworkers
• creating a healthy work environment at home

Family life during remote working & education

Under this challenge, we aim at addressing issues related to:

• making a healthy comfortable work environment at home
• lack of meaningful social contacts with peers
• toddlers minding
• preschool children minding

Primary and secondary school specific challenges

Under this challenge, we aim at addressing issues related to:

• Lack of access to technology and IT literacy.
• Assisting parents in taking over teachers’ role.
• Disproportionate learning outcomes after the lock down.
• Implementation of final examinations at national level.
• Ensuring access to warm meals for children from disadvantaged families.
• Organising online excursions.

University specific challenges

Under this challenge, we aim at addressing issues related to:

• Open Sciences / Open Access / Open Equipment.
• Hands on / experiential learning.
• Transdisciplinary COVID research coordination.

Students’ challenges

Under this challenge, we aim at addressing issues related to:

• Repayment of study loans
• Recuperation of student work
• Developing autonomous learning / support groups

Other

The above challenges are just suggestions. Feel empowered to get creative!

Support identification of financial shortfalls

Create solutions that use open data and data analytics to help businesses, especially SMEs, identify and analyze financial shortfalls and needs.

Speed-up access to financial support

The challenge is meant to find solutions to enabling speedy access to public financial support by SMEs, self-employed, citizens;

Speed-up distribution of financial support

The challenge is meant to find solutions to quicker distribution of public financial support via digital money/transfers.

Availability of emergency health insurance

The challenge is meant to find solutions to ensure an emergency Coronavirus health Insurance

Enable crowd to help financially

The challenge is meant to crowdfund to support the fight against Coronavirus such as the provision of medical equipment to local hospitals.

Support for digitally excluded

The challenge is meant to find solutions to provision of essential digital finance tools to the digitally excluded such as the elderly and homeless.

Other

The above challenges are just suggestions. Feel empowered to get creative!

Be creative!

Any other challenge related to the COVID crisis, which can find a solution inside the Pan-European Matchathon. Feel empowered to get creative!