This year’s challenges invite participants to apply their creativity and technical skills to solve real problems with real impact across business, data, and infrastructure:

  • 🚇 Deloitte – Design smart solutions for Barcelona’s new metro line.

  • 🧑‍💼 Quether Innovation Solutions – Develop innovative systems to improve talent analytics and recruitment.

  • 🏢 Caixa Enginyers – Analyze and propose the best location for a new office based on strategic and data-driven insights.

  • 📡 DTIC UAB – Analyze and optimize the UAB Wi-Fi network to improve connectivity and performance across campus.

Each challenge includes its own objectives and evaluation criteria — creativity, feasibility, and technical quality will make the difference.

Here are some of the resources and tools available to participants:

  • PublicAI Platform (Projecte AINA – BSC) → https://publicai.co
    Access open Catalan-language AI models for inference:

    • BSC-LT/salamandra-7b-instruct-tools-16k (fast & efficient)

    • BSC-LT/ALIA-40b-instruct_Q8_0 (deep reasoning)
      Docs: platform.publicai.co/docs

  • AI Ethics & Sovereignty → Aina Project – BSC

  • Notion Guide (by Bianca Luna, Campus Leader) →
    Notion – UAB THE HACK!

    Tips to design clear, visual, and story-driven project documentation.