You don't need any special skills or hackathon experience to take part in Hack the paradise! Just bring your notebook and the time and desire to work together in interdisciplinary teams on ideas and concepts.

Unless you only want to build sensors, you don't need any programming skills. For most challenges, you or at least someone in your team should have some programming experience. At least as important as programming skills are specialist knowledge of the respective challenges, conceptual know-how, presentation skills, creativity and an affinity for design. Experience has shown that the best ideas come from interdisciplinary teams!

We aim to provide a safe and comfortable environment and a harassment-free experience for all; regardless of the following:

• Gender, gender identity and expression
• Age
• sexual orientation
• Disability
• physical appearance
• Nationality
• Religion
• political views
• previous hackathon participation or lack thereof
• IT experience or not
• chosen programming language or tech stack

We do not tolerate harassment of hackathon participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate at any hackathon venue, this includes the following:

• Hacks
• Talks, presentations, check-ins, workshops or demos
• any parties associated with the hackathon
• social media
• all other online media

Harassment includes offensive verbal comments, intimidation, stalking, following, photographing or audio/video recording without consent, persistent interruption of conversations and unwelcome sexual attention.

Hackathon participants who violate these rules will be asked to cease harassing behavior immediately and may be excluded from the hackathon at the discretion of the hackathon organizers.

Report to the organizing team if participants behave inappropriately in any of the above points.

Let's create a fair environment for everyone together!

We want to improve the quality of life, communication, networking and cooperation in the city through jointly developed and implemented innovations.

To this end, the city's existing networks from business, science, administration and urban society will be activated and encouraged to help shape urban life.

In the process of developing a data policy, a common understanding and a practiced approach to handling data will be developed that pays particular attention to the protection of personal data and the transparency of public data.

The ability to cooperate, collaborate and jointly develop third-party funding will be improved through networking and collaboration. The Smart City project (Jena Digital Werkstadt) is creating a networking and collaboration platform through which the city of Jena implements, exchanges and further develops digital solutions with partners.

We want to promote selected project ideas. This is always done in close coordination with the jury, the challenge givers and the hackathon project teams. This involves looking for implementation options, discussing possible costs and networking with institutions that could be involved. As organizers, we reserve the right to release financial resources for the implementation of project ideas following Hack the paradise! Codes used for this purpose will be made open source under a strong copyleft license, as this is a prerequisite for the use of the funding in the Smart City project.