00:05Valga-Valga is a twin city, two countries, one city, but what we found is that the youth on
00:14both sides, they didn't really integrate, they didn't talk, so the idea of Hag the Border is
00:20to get the youth to work together and to create something that's going to be beneficial for the
00:25city itself, bringing them together and creating something special.
00:36Usually we do hackathons for startups and to get like business results, but here is more like a
00:43social project. Hackathon is like a community platform, we bring different kind of people
00:50together. We put them together to work and we put them to the teams and then they try to find
00:57solutions for different kinds of challenges.
01:04We just got them to start thinking about things they could do that would improve life for the youth.
01:11Obviously a lot of the ideas are focused around better parties, better social nights for the kids,
01:19and they wanted more communal spaces for hangouts and things like this. When they saw that, you know,
01:25the Estonians had the same ideas as the Latvians, they thought, well, we could put them together and
01:30they, you know, this is where some of the magic happens.
01:36Hackathon is like a network, building the networks. People come together, they build here like long-lasting
01:43friendships, and maybe even find some potential business partners. If Estonians and Latvians came to the
01:49hackathon, they were like ice cubes. But by the end of the hackathon, this ice has melted.
01:55Thanks, hearts.
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