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The first Behavioral Science competition of l.

COMING SOON

Behave! Portugal is a challenge centered on applying insights from Behavioral Economics and Behavioral Science,  open to students and graduates of all areas, who are motivated to make impact in human-centered way.
The challenge will take place during the Nudge Week 21' (Nudge – O Poder da decisão), a series of seminars, talks and live events organized jointly by Expresso and Nudge Portugal. 

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Behave! Portugal is the first hackathon directed to graduates of all fields that revolves on using nudges to solve real social and business problems. 
The challenge takes place as part of the second edition of the event Nudge – O Poder da decisão, jointly organized by Expresso and Nudge Portugal: days of conferences that addresses the use of applied behavioural science to different verticals of the Portuguese market. The sponsors, some of the leading organizations of Portugal, research and provide a common hot-topic that is impacting the Portuguese economy the scope of the competition is coming up with solutions. 
 



WHAT IS IT?

Behave! Portugal is a behavioural design and change competition, in which teams develop solutions to real-life issues. In a time-pressured environment, the teams will have to design a creative solution, leveraging behavioural science, that should be: 

 

  • Applicable: Your solution can and should be easy to implement.

  • Testable: Your solution needs to be robust and testable against the current state of things. 

  • Impactful: Your solution needs to have the potential of having a substantial impact on society. 

WHY?

The primary purpose of Behave! Portugal is to produce innovative and feasible solutions to a common problem that some of the most relevant companies in Portugal are currently facing across several industries. The value added to behaviourally-aligned solutions is the ease of implementation, the lower cost and the testable impact. 
 


HOW WILL IT WORK?
 

The competition will have 2 phases:  

  1. Phase 1 (Pre-selection): employ your creativity and skills to address a problem that is afflicting the country. Your goal is to be creative, innovative and behaviourally aligned. Demonstrate that you can harness the power of Nudges!
     

  2. Final Challenge: A real challenge provided by the partners. You’ll receive support, mentoring and advice on your idea. Divided in steps, and taking place during the Nudge week 21’. Finalists will be broadcasted when presenting their solution!

WHEN WILL IT HAPPEN? 

COMING SOON!! Stay tuned

HOW TO APPLY? 

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The competition is meant to be solved as a team! 
You can participate in teams of 2 to 5 people maximum; in case you want to participate but haven’t got a team yet, you can do the preselection alone nevertheless: we’ll help you match with other participants that passed the preselection! 

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR IDEA: 
 
Please submit your creative ideas in a video format (no more than 90 seconds), and/or as a PowerPoint presentation (max 3 slides) where you should answer the following points:   

  1. Describe the human behaviour/situation being nudged. 

  2. Describe the intervention and why it may work. 

  3. How would you tested and measure the results? 

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