Mentoring & Evaluation Guide

This document is addressed to mentors and evaluators

Εκδοση 1.0

1. Μentoring toolkit        2

What mentors do?        2

What issues do the teams support?        3

2. Judge and evaluation toolkit        4

Evaluation criterias        4

Application Evaluation Procedure        6

1. Μentoring toolkit

What mentors do?

• Support the participants in terms of design, shaping the basic idea and philosophy of the application that will be implemented by each group
• They come from public organizations, from private bodies, Partners’ Ecosystem, the wider research / academic community.
• They are horizontal - common to all groups
• Participate as long as they can to support the teams.

What issues do the teams support?

Mentors try according to their profile to support the teams in the following three levels:

Α. Business

Indicative:

• Support the formation of the idea by the groups, in case they need it
• Identifying business value in relation to the challenges Hackathon and especially the specific problem they aim to solve
• What are the features of the application that have value in relation to the target group of the application
• How to make the correct presentation (pitching) of the application

Β. Product Development Process

Indicative:

• How do we prioritize the features in relation to the limited time that the groups will have (prioritization)
• What is the relationship and what is the balance between the ready-made features of the prototype in relation to those that may exist in the final version
• How are they related to each other?

C. Technology

Indicative:

• Technologies easily adaptable to the existing process,
• Explanation of frameworks, APIs etc.
• Other technical ideas

2. Judge and evaluation toolkit

Evaluation criterias

The completeness of the functional characteristics or ideas related to integration, business, impact, innovation is evaluated (see below).

A. TECHNOLOGY - INTEGRATION - 40%

Indicative:

• To what extent has the application been completed within the hackathon?
• Degree of integration with 3rd party systems through APIs etc.
• Degree of implementation of functionalities / features that have business value
• Integrations of different technologies
• State of art technologies / frameworks

IMPACT / BUSINESS MODEL - 40%

Indicative:

• Can it be implemented directly?
• How many does it affect, to whom is it addressed?
• How big of an impact does it have?
• Is there completeness in the way the proposal is implemented?
• A team gets excellent in this criterion if there is convergence with the degree of technological implementation (A)

C.ΙΝΝΟVATION - 20 %

Indicative:

• Is there technological innovation from the combination of technology stacks?
• How does it use open data / APIs / web services?
• How does the application motivate its use?
• In what innovative way does it solve the problem?

Application Evaluation Procedure

• Mentors may also be invited to participate in the jury if time is available
• A meeting is held after the presentations of the groups to extract the final results
  

Gravity Table (Example)

• The score for each criterion takes a score of 1-5
• The final result results from the weighting of the total sum based on the weight of the above criteria