After the kick-off-hackathon-weekend on 6^th and 7^th April the participants had six weeks to realize their creative ideas. The prize-givingas well as the exposition of the projects takes place on 18^th May in the Tafelhalle in Nuremberg. On board as member of the jury: Fabrizio Palmas, who has already acted as a mentor at the Creators’ Labs and is taking part in artistical virtual reality projects like Fever and Sublimation.

Fabrizio Palmas is Unity Certified Developer and Professional Scrum Master, as well as a lecturer at the University for Applied Management (HAM) and at the Technical University Munich (TUM), where he is currently doing his Ph.D. in informatics. Through his research in the fields of extended-reality (XR), gamification and motivation he has become an expert of immersive technologies and has already published many professional publications.

Excitement is building up about which final results will have emerged from Coding Da Vinci Süd 2019 and how Fabrizio Palmas and the rest of the jury will decide. Therefore, another step will have been taken towards easing the way for cultural institutions towards open data and making our cultural heritage digitally accessible for everyone.