The Embassy of Sweden, the Consulate General of Sweden in Mumbai and the Swedish Institute have invited participants – students, entrepreneurs, innovation enthusiasts, developers, designers, creatives and mobility experts across India and Sweden – for a 42-hour digital Sweden-India Mobility Hackathon christened ‘Changing the way we move!’ on February 26-28, 2021. The mission of the hackathon is to design, test and execute ideas for the future – with a particular focus on mobility.
Sweden and India have joined forces to tackle important issues regarding safe and sustainable transportation. This hackathon is a designer sprint-like event in which participants collaborate intensively on digital innovations to create functioning solutions to predetermined challenges by the end of the event namely - lethal accidents in traffic, safe and sustainable transport, air pollution/ emissions from traffic sector, infrastructure for connected vehicle and sustainable logistics.