Unina seizmic hackathon 2025: Rethinking food systems in the Anthropocene

Now in its 5th edition, this workshop is one of the most established educational initiatives within Work Package 3, “Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation” of the Aurora University Alliance. The Unina seizmic hackathon will be composed of an online lecture (October 1st, 2025) and 5-days of in-person workshop from 20 to 24 October 2025 at the University of Naples Federico II.

The aim of the hackathon is to offer participants a design-based learning experience that addresses some of the most pressing challenges of our time—climate change, the exploitation of labour and territories by global agribusiness, and growing socio-economic inequalities. Participants will be invited to tackle these issues from a radically interdisciplinary perspective, integratingdiverse fields of knowledge from the outset, including social entrepreneurship, design for social innovation, agroecology, and circular economy.

This edition will specifically focus on urban agriculture and permaculture within the Neapolitan context. Some workshop activities will take place in a community garden within Parco Viviani, a park situated in one of Naples’ most central and historically significant areas.

We will also benefit from the collaboration of co-teachers and co-facilitators from our Aurora partner institutions—UPEC(Université Paris-Est Créteil) and CBS (Copenhagen Business School)—with whom we are engaged in the research project “Inclusive Nature in Higher Education and Research: Fostering Regenerative Communities”, funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) in France.

Application procedure: 

Each university takes care of the application, selection and nomination of max 5 students (with internal deadlines for the application).

Each university will send to aurora.seizmic.hackathon@gmail.com the list of nominated students by September 22, 2025

Each university will send the grant application information to the selected students.

Interested students should reach their Mobility Office as soon as possible to apply for this opportunity. 

All the students participants will be provided with a Certificate of Attendance.

for info: aurora.seizmic.hackathon@gmail.com

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UNINA seizmic hackathon 2025