After the success of the first edition, next Wednesday 8th of May, the final event for the presentations of the projects and award ceremony for the Barcelona Dades Obertes Challenge Second edition 2019 will be held at the Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats of the city of Barcelona.

In this event, around 200 students from the participating centres of this year’s edition will attend, accompanied by the tutors who taught them among other teachers.

The event will take place in the events’ hall of the Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats where there will also be a reserved spot for the exhibit of the infographics the centres have been working on. This will be so the attendants may observe and comment them.

During the event, the representative students from the 10 centres the projects of which were the best rated will have 5 minutes to defend their work to their classmates, the rest of the participants and attendants and to the jury, formed by different university professors, renowned experts in data analysis. This year, in the frame of the relations between universities and the Barcelona City Council, the jury board adds Laia Albors Zumel, a 2nd year student of the degree in Data Science and Engineering in the UPC.