Support for innovators

HACK STORIES

When the community shares its experience of Open Geneva hackathons

Watch videos of participants in Open Geneva's hackathons. They share their experiences of these unique innovation events!

Organize your own hackathon! Use the Open Geneva methodology

Discover all the resources created and made available by Open Geneva to support the community in its practice of open innovation

Open Geneva methodology

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Open Geneva and coworking spaces | café Voisins in Geneva are partners! For startups, entrepreneurs, freelancers and coworkers in our Open Geneva community, take advantage of a 10% discount on Nomade subscriptions, so you can continue to innovate and work anywhere in Geneva!

Interested? Write to us at hello@opengeneva.org

Sparkboard

Sparkboard

The Sparkboard is the web platform developed and made available free of charge by Open Geneva. This tool allows the promotion of hackathons, facilitates the organisation of hackathons for organisers, the follow-up of projects born from these events, as well as the direct connection between innovators and accelerator programmes in the Lake Geneva region.

If you wish to organise an event/hackathon using the platform, please complete this questionnaire

Download the user guide(FR or EN).

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Crowdsupport

Crowdsupport

Open Geneva launches its platform to support innovative projects born from Open Geneva hackathons!
The objective: to directly involve the community in the development and support of innovative projects by combining participatory funding and in-kind contributions!

Find out more about Crowdsupport

Newsletters

Communication & Visibility

A project does not exist if it is not talked about. Whether it is within the community of innovators, in the media, or with acceleration partners, projects must be visible in order to find resources, be they technical, financial, human, logistical, etc.

Each month, a newsletter is sent to the network of innovation actors, innovators, supporters and partners of Open Geneva. This communication aims to present and follow the innovation projects born from the hackathons, to announce the events related to innovation in Geneva (hackathons, conferences, workshops...). 

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Our accelerator partners

Mass Challenge Switzerland

Founded in 2016, MassChallenge Switzerland has quickly become a leading driver of innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe by connecting startups with the experts and resources they need to grow.

G'innove

The G'innove programme, managed by the City of Geneva's Agenda 21 - Sustainable City department, is intended to provide financial support, limited in time, to projects presenting a societal innovation.

InnoGex

InnoGEX is a CERN accredited incubator whose objective is to encourage the creation and development of innovative companies, linked to CERN technologies, in the Pays de Gex area.

Science Innovation Hub

The Hub of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Geneva is articulated as a deep scientific pre-incubator, whose objective is to support researchers in exploiting the commercial potential of their high-level fundamental research carried out at the Faculty through society.

Geneus

Geneus enables innovation in the life sciences by providing a collaborative co-working space for entrepreneurs. Geneus supports those wishing to explore the potential of their ideas, research and evolve into a viable business model.

Genilem

Genilem provides entrepreneurs in the cantons of Geneva and Vaud with long-term (3 years) strategic coaching for innovative projects with high potential (non-technological innovations).

Pulse UAS Incubator

Pulse Incubator HES is the new structure for supporting innovative projects and the creation of high-potential companies by students or young graduates as well as the staff of the HES-SO Geneva schools.

Fondetec

The mission of Fondetec is to support companies that create jobs and bring innovation to the city of Geneva. Thanks to the support and backing of the Fondetec, 9 out of 10 companies supported are still active after 5 years and continue to develop. In 20 years, more than 600 companies have been supported.

Startup Academy La Côte

Startup Academy La Côte accompanies and supports start-ups from the initial business idea. The programme is tailored to the needs of the start-up and lasts between 18 and 24 months.

The support provided consists of mentoring, advice, knowledge transfer and workshops, as well as the development of a specific network for each start-up.

Projects born out of hackathons

#SME Health Check Project

This startup, which was born out of the Geneva Resilience Hack hackathon in June 2020, assists companies with a diagnosis and recommendations to better cope with crises.

#Project: Breathing games

This collective creates video games to help patients with asthma or cystic fibrosis.

#Project : Hackahealth

Our media partner RTS presents the Hackahealth hackathon team who tells us how this adventure started.

#Project : HUG@Home

Our media partner RTS presents Sanae, a doctor at the HUG, who came up with the idea, during the HUG hackathon, of an application that enables an immediate diagnosis without going to the emergency room.

#Comobilis Project

Born from an idea developed during the Smart City Hack in 2017 and then improved during the Mobility hackathon in 2018, the project is now in full swing.

#Project : Billy and Hoppy

Discover the Billy & Hoppy project, born from the HUG#4 hackathon: an interactive robot to entertain hospitalized children thanks to an application developed with iconographies to break the language barriers with children during care!

#Perched Vegetables Project

From their participation in the Smart City Hack during the Open Geneva 2017 festival to the creation of their association.