"LoopLab" Recycling Hackathon

2026 Lefkada, YesHub platform.

I served as a core volunteer and organizer, supporting the end-to-end execution of the hackathon from participant coordination and section management to leading three training sessions and developing the evaluation system.

Main Areas of the Project

Total of 23 participants took part in the project, divided into 8 teams. The project was planned over a 3-day period and consisted of 4 main stages. In the first stage, a training session was held under the title "Problems and Needs" to explore the difference between problems and needs. This forms the very basis of business thinking, as businesses are built on problems, not needs; not every need is a problem in itself. In the second stage, participants were introduced to basic business thinking and held a discussion on the formation of business ideas. Thanks to a collaboration with a local social entrepreneur, he gave a one-hour presentation to share his experience from scratch. The third stage consisted entirely of a training session on preparing and developing a business plan. The 4th stage was dedicated to independent work, during which teams, together with their members, identified and developed an idea, completed a business plan template, and prepared for the presentation. The following morning, the presentations took place, and prizes were awarded to the top two teams.

More detailed information and a comprehensive article: yeshub.magazine

For reasons of data protection and the safeguarding of ideas, I do not share extensive information about the ideas submitted to the project or the winning entries. However, you can find some information about the winners in the magazine article.