On October 22, the registration period to participate in the "Training plan on open data" was closed, which will be taught to the professors interested in participating in the contest Barcelona Dades Obertes Challenge Second edition_2019. More than 30 teachers from 12 centres have shown their interest in this edition. All the participants of the First edition of 2018 repeat with the incorporation of new teachers to the training, which will consist of 3 sessions in which general concepts about open data, concepts about Open Data BCN, the service of the open data of the Barcelona City Council and tools to work and visualize data will be taught. The first session will take place on the 30th of October 30.

Furthermore, with the objective to encourage participation, this year, the contest allows the presentation of the projects without attending the training plan. Therefore, the deadline of the project presentation will be the 25th of March of 2019 as it is stated in the “Contest rules document” that is available in the website Barcelona Dades Obertes Challenge Second edition_2019.