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welcome back ladies and gentlemen to the EU datathon 2022 the sixth edition and I hope everyone has had a chance to have a bit of lunch refresh themselves stretch out and be ready for our next two challenges as well as the public vote still to come and indeed the all-important awards ceremony but we're now on to our third thematic Challenge and that is EU public procurement for young people this year 2022 is the European year of Youth this was something that President Ursula Van Der Lyon set out in Her speech to the European Union and it has been a series of events that have been focusing on getting young people more involved in policies more involved in what's happening across the EU and more involved at a Grassroots level right up to a political level to talk to us a little bit about why this challenge is very timely and very important I'm delighted to introduce Manuela Cruz Publications Office of the European Union of course our host today and she is Ted and EU public procurement expert Manuela thank you very much for the welcome and good afternoon I hope you can hear me in good conditions okay that's very good so my name is Manuela Cruz indeed I am the head of the test and you public procurement unit here at the Publications office and I'm sorry I cannot be with you physically today but in any way it is my pleasure to introduce the three finalists of the challenge EU public procurement opportunities for young people and I would like to start by congratulating the finalists of course but also all the participants because the the the task was not easy they had to combine young people a challenge by itself and procurement another huge challenge so if we start considering young people young people includes women men non-binary very young teenagers not so young students workers unemployed people from different countries speaking different languages having different backgrounds with different interests and with different needs and then if we can consider public procurement and on top of that European public procurement well it is a complex and specialized field we already heard this morning some of the participants referring to how complicated how complex the data is and I would even dare to add well a bit dull a bit dry very bureaucratic so how can you combine indeed youth the creativity and the promise of Youth and this complex aspect of procurement well the finalists did it and they did it by using data by using the power of data the power of open data to do something with a subject that looks very complex to make it simple and to highlight opportunities because procurement is about highlighting opportunities for business so what did these teams do well the team from has pop EU made of Ayana yon George and rasman they proposed to match skills to jobs so they wanted to build digital Bridges and I think that's a very nice image building digital Bridges and then the team from hair mix vodkan and Stefan they are inspired by old myths by the myth of Hermes the messenger of the Gods of the Greek gods and they proposed to demystify public procurement and to promote Democratic access to public funds and this sounds really inspiring and then finally the theme from youth spot constantini Sofia and Mikhail they want to make public procurement popular to young people and they apply machine learning techniques to historical data to predict trends and this is very promising so I will not spoil the fun you will see by yourselves how they captured the superpowers of procurement Theta and how they made it to present the beautiful projects that they will present today I wish the finalists the best of luck I promise I promise us all that we will have a very good time watching their proposals thank you very much [Applause] thank you very much indeed Manuela and we can see there all those great finalists for our Challenge number three EU public procurement opportunities for young people and as Manuela