The project “Don’t forget. Kharkiv» scientists of our Department of Ukrainian Studies won the historic hackathon

 

 

October 18 - 20, 2019 The first international historical hackathon # Hack4history was held in Minsk (Belarus). 14 teams from different countries, consisting of historians, museum workers, NGO representatives and IT specialists, gathered at the Johannes Rau Minsk International Educational Center. Ukraine, in particular, was represented by a team. It includes associate professors of the Department of Ukrainian Studies, cultural studies and history of science Svetlana Telukha and Igor Dvorkin, as well as a graduate of NTU "KPI" Vladimir Kramsky. Within 48 hours, the team, with the help of history, design, programming and marketing specialists, completed their pre-selected projects. The project of a multimedia platform for the memory of the Second World War in Kharkov from the team "Don't forget" became the winner of the hackathon and received the support needed to refine the project to a complete product.