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Title: Multi-Vortex Tornado Blueprint for Disruptive Global Co-Creation (Inspired by EUvsVirus): Hackathons vs Grand Challenges
Authors: Petrevska Nechkoska, R
Caro-González, A
Bertello, A
Grande, S
Schmüser, M
Rzhevska, N
Matskevich, Y
Baltov, M
Jez, U
Clavijo, E
Tsaranok, E
Daban Marín, M
Hajji, R
Couto, R
Bolesta, K
Abou Ibrahim, S
Poughia, E
Yang, M
De Bernardi, P
Poels, G
Müller-Seitz, G
Bogers, M
Issue Date: 10-Jan-2023
Publisher: Springer
Citation: Petrevska Nechkoska, R. et al. (2023) 'Multi-Vortex Tornado Blueprint for Disruptive Global Co-Creation (Inspired by EUvsVirus): Hackathons vs Grand Challenges', in Petrevska Nechkoska, R., Manceski, G. and Poels, G. (eds.) Facilitation in Complexity. Contributions to Management Science. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 307 - 362 .doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-11065-8_11.
Series/Report no.: Contributions to Management Science (MANAGEMENT SC.)
Abstract: Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Since its burst in early 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has deeply affected every aspect of daily life, from international trade and travelling to restrictions on an individual level, becoming a complex multi-level and highly multi-faceted problem. Due to its overarching influence and deep impact, it can be seen as one of the most disruptive Grand Challenges of our time. Different from most other lasting Grand Challenges, such as Climate Change, the pandemic exerted its influence with little ramp-up, rapidly transforming health and health systems, human lives, goods and economic flows, decision-making mechanisms, research and innovation, and many other aspects of life in a very short span of time. Grand Challenges require extraordinary efforts from society as a whole since they need holistic, effective, collaborative endeavours to solve them. One such unique orchestrated effort can be observed in the subsequent series of virtual massive EUvsVirus (https://www.euvsvirus.org/) events and committed collaborations (‘hackathon’, ‘matchathon’, ‘launchathon’, ‘community’, ‘EIC Covid platform’, and the unparalleled ‘Academia Diffusion Experiment’ [ADE], analysed in chapter “Academia Diffusion Experiment: Trailblazing the Emergence from Co-Creation” of this book). While this chapter explains ‘what’ has been produced with the ADE, inspired by the EUvsVirus phenomenon, the ADE chapter describes ‘how’ it has been done. Both are extremely unique in terms of content, procedure, motivation, collaboration, effects—and they attempt to trailblaze at highest level co-creation, co-evolution, and co-dreaming. Hence, situated as the last chapters of this book. This chapter will shed light on the EUvsVirus events, where over 30,000 individuals from 40 countries came together and addressed the complexity of this massive challenge in a pioneering and groundbreaking way. The chapter is focused on analysing the EUvsVirus hackathon (alongside its mentioned unique spillovers) as a tool, method, and process capable of channelling and activating individuals’ and institutions’ concerns, wills, and commitments into a unique orchestrated open, collaborative response to an urgent Grand Challenge, the pandemic. We are producing a multi-vortex tornado model, resembling the EUvsVirus phenomenon, its components, mechanisms, behaviour and how to replicate it to achieve such disruptive, global organisational effort of co-creation. Especially, the emergence of such collaboration in the face of such urgency leads to the assumption that there are crucial lessons to be learned from this endeavour, quite fittingly encapsulated by these words: ‘We are learning That though we weren't ready for this, We have been readied by it’. Amanda Gorman’s New Year poem (https://amandagormanbooks.com/#the-hill-we-climb-and-other-poems or https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2022/01/06/exp-amanda-gorman-nye-poem.cnn)
URI: https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/28145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11065-8_11
ISBN: 978-3-031-11064-1 (hbk)
ISSN: 978-3-031-11065-8 (ebk)
Other Identifiers: ORCID iD: Renata Petrevska Nechkoska https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4641-1265
ORCID iD: Antonia Caro Gonzalez https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8048-6941
ORCID iD: Alberto Bertello https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6474-447X
ORCID iD: Simona Grande https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1252-5317
ORCID iD: Nataliia Rzhevska https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8695-5964
ORCID iD: Yulia Matskevich https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5493-0233
ORCID iD: Milen Baltov https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1195-7479
ORCID iD: Urska Jez https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1057-7279
ORCID iD: Montserrat Daban Marín https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4802-6344
ORCID iD: Raouf Hajji https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7246-8583
ORCID iD: Karolina Bolesta https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9668-5782
ORCID iD: Sara Abou Ibrahim https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9467-1205
ORCID iD: Man Yang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7601-6733
ORCID iD: Paola De Bernardi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6776-6735
ORCID iD: Geert Poels https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9247-6150
ORCID iD: Marcel Bogers https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7942-3561
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