This year #ActInSpace2020 Luxembourg will take place at Technoport technology business incubator in Belval (Esch-sur-Alzette). The event is organized by Technoport and InTech. The Hackathon starts on 13 November at 1h00 pm, and finishes with the award ceremony on 14 November at 5h00 pm.

The main goals of ActInSpace hackathon are:

• To foster and enforce entrepreneurial and innovation management practices of participants by offering a game-based learning experience;
• To promote space ;
• To promote the creation of start-ups by using and adapting space technologies to our daily life ;
• To create an event focused on space and innovation in Luxembourg.

Participants are asked to form teams, choose one of the space challenges proposed by CNES, ESA and sponsors, and deliver a solution in 24 hours, mentored by professional industry experts.

IPIL experts will act as coaches and Serge Quazzotti participates as a member of the jury.

This year IPIL G.I.E. will award the Intellectual Property prize for the team having integrated at best the aspects of Intellectual property within its project.

The BOIP, Benelux Office for Intellectual Property, will offer each team an i-DEPOT for their project.