{"id":8500,"date":"2020-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/open-call-for-the-new-edition-of-smartcatalonia-challenge-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:50:24","slug":"open-call-for-the-new-edition-of-smartcatalonia-challenge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/ca\/open-call-for-the-new-edition-of-smartcatalonia-challenge-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open call for the new edition of SmartCatalonia Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>Open call for the new edition of the innovation competition<strong> SmartCatalonia Challenge<\/strong>, promoted by the Secretariat for Digital Policies of the Generalitat of Catalonia.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s competition, which has been prepared in cooperation with the <strong>Association of Rural Initiatives of Catalonia (ARCA)<\/strong>, sets out<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/participa.challenge.cat\/assemblies\/ARCA\"> 5 challenges<\/a> <\/strong>related to the Catalan rural ecosystem which are susceptible to be solved by innovative solutions based on ICT.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative encourages the participation of Catalan start-ups and SMEs capable of offering an innovative, viable and adapted solution to one (or more) of the proposed calls.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/participa.challenge.cat\/assemblies\/ARCA?locale=ca\">Join the Challenge until July 17th<\/a><\/strong>! Awards are waiting for the best ideas!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Best solution award: 15.000 \u20ac + Pilot of the solution with Associaci\u00f3 d\u2019Iniciatives Rurals de Catalunya (ARCA).<\/li>\n<li>Second prize: 3.000 \u20ac<\/li>\n<li>Third prize: 2.000 \u20ac<\/li>\n<li>All the winners will also have the possibility to present their solution in the Generalitat de Catalunya stand during the Smart City Expo World Congress 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"lead\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7104 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/banner_premis-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open call for the new edition of the innovation competition SmartCatalonia Challenge, promoted by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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