Green Hackathon

VSB-TUO Ostrava I November 21-23, 2022

The event was organized between November as a kickoff event of the ExCORE project.

Is it possible to write a research paper in 48 hours? Possibly not in a quality that would be accepted by acknowledged journals. It is no easy task to write an extended abstract of such a paper if its authors are from different countries (who have never met before) and the topic of the paper is not given in advance. Despite all of the above, a group of young researchers from 3 countries – Poland, Slovakia, and Czechia was challenged to form international teams and produce the extended abstract in 2 days during a hackathon-style event organized by VSB-TUO Ostrava (CZ).

New ideas, innovations or inspirations are hard to come by sitting at home or being stuck to the humdrum of daily life. So the aim of the event was to gather young researchers from different fields and universities and show them places and meet people they usually don’t encounter, such as experts in mining activities who help to remove the environmental burdens of coal mining and support the local business infrastructure (Jeremenko mine and Moravian Silesian Industrial Development agency, Dolni Vitkovice area), visit the state of the art fully automated production line that is part of transition to Industry 4.0, or enter a smart home full of analytical sensors (Smart lab of VSB – Technical University of Ostrava).

To get better results, the Project Leaders and Mentors (senior researchers from partner Universities)  decided to define the rules for writing the extended abstract and presenting outcomes twice during the event and, above all, decided to set a 48-hour deadline so that the participants could experience work under pressure.

Then, our recipe for the event followed verified procedures e.g. icebreakers, good food (Czech classics combined with an overload of pizza), and a game of bowling that helped in shaping the team spirit and allowed for a moment of respite.

Green Hackathon Photo Gallery

The teams had to define the specific goal of their research, and draft an extended abstract of their future research paper to be submitted during the next year either to a conference or a scientific journal. The abstract also covered a review of existing literature, a proposal of research methods and the way how to obtain data for later analysis, as well as a description on the motivation and further use of expected findings.

Final presentations took place on Day 3 when the teams faced immediate feedback and questions from the project Mentors. The presented abstracts (5-7 pages) exceeded the expectations of both the participants and their Mentors, in means and quality, considering they were international collaboration in newly formed teams of people that have never met before and had to use English as the language of communication.

Southampton Study Visit

with the participation 3^rd Accounting & Accountability in Emerging Economies (AAEE) Conference l July 2-4, 2023

The Conference was organized by Southampton Business School, Centre for Research in Accounting, Accountability and Governance (CRAAG), supported by Centre for Accountability and Global Development, University of Essex.
The ExCORE project participants presented their papers in the session “Emerging Scholars Colloquium”, that is traditionally organized during the first day of the AAEE Conference, in support of young researchers.
Young researchers took part in on-site mentoring session with prof. Teerooven Soobaroyen, who provided comments on their research projects.

University of Bari Aldo Moro
transnational project meeting

September, 2023 July

[forthcoming]

University of Verona
transnational project meeting

Frebruary 19-21, 2024

[forthcoming]