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The Vatican called - and 120 participants worldwide flocked to its first hackathon “VHacks”. One of Jacobs University’s students, Ibrahim Ahmed Malik from Pakistan, was there. “It was a fantastic experience,” says the 21-year-old, who is studying Industrial Engineering and Management at the English-medium university in Bremen.
Finding a technical solution for a social problem in just 36 hours - that was the brief given by VHacks. Ibrahim and his team chose the theme of Migration and Refugees. They developed an app and a website that bring together refugees and their local supporters. “We kept the platform as simple as possible to make it easily accessible. The jury really liked it,” he says.
The participants of VHacks came from 60 countries and comprised not only students but also programmers, designers and project managers. “The contact with like-minded people was highly enriching,” says Ibrahim who is not Christian but Muslim. It was all the more inspiring for him to have been “so close to the heart of the Catholic faith”, as he put it. The venue contributed greatly to the significance of VHacks, which he calls an “amazing initiative”. Ibrahim and the other participants even got to see the Pope - at the traditional Sunday prayers at Saint Peter's Basilica where the Pope also praised the VHacks initiative.
More information:
www.jacobs-university.de
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About Jacobs University:
Jacobs University is a private, independent, English-medium university in Bremen. Young people from all over the world study here in preparatory, Bachelor, Master, and PhD programs. Internationality and transdisciplinarity are special features of Jacobs University: research and teaching don’t just pursue a single approach, they address issues from the perspectives of multiple disciplines. This principle makes Jacobs graduates highly sought-after new talents who successfully strike out on international career paths.
Thomas Joppig | Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH
Corporate Communications & Public Relations
t.joppig@jacobs-university.de | Tel.: +49 421 200-4504
Ibrahim Ahmed Malik joined the Vatican's first hackathon
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