Mars Jam

A Mars Jam brings a community together around a challenge, creating a context for research, collaboration, decisions and turning knowledge into proposals and action. It activates the programme within an institution or territory. The international final is The Grand Jam.

In current communications, Mars Jam replaces HackImpacto. Historical references and legal documents retain their context rather than being renamed automatically.

Universities, cities, schools, companies and other institutions can explore organising a Mars Jam. The actual possibility, role and responsibilities must be confirmed with Mars Challenge under the applicable official model.

Expressing interest does not confer authorisation, a trademark licence or partner status. Conditions, responsibilities and information approved for public communication must be clear before announcing a call.

The host institution and Mars Challenge define the context, audience, purpose and conditions. Preparation covers the call, facilitation, participants' work and documentation of the process.

Teams explore the challenge, investigate, connect perspectives, compare ideas, decide and develop proposals they can explain and revise. Educators and mentors facilitate without replacing participants' authorship.

Duration, format, assessment and relationships with other activities depend on confirmed conditions. This page does not establish universal requirements or guarantee progression to the international final.

Mars Jam provides a framework for connecting areas, people and priorities that do not always work together. A university may connect disciplines; a city, talent and institutions; a school, learning and real problems; a company, context and specialist knowledge.

The proposed value is to create conditions for community participation and observable work. Educational, territorial or business outcomes must be documented for each experience, rather than inferred from hosting it.

Shared identity may be expressed as Mars Jam × [University], Mars Jam × [City], Mars Jam × [School] or Mars Jam × [Company]. These are category examples, not agreements with particular organisations.

Host identity helps explain where the experience takes place, who leads it and which community it serves. Application, materials and trademark use follow official conditions. Visibility does not imply sponsorship, endorsement or rights that have not been agreed.

Participants find a context for contributing knowledge, listening to other perspectives, explaining decisions, creating and revising. The community may discover projects and discuss the work within the applicable permissions and privacy conditions.

Documentation can help preserve projects, learning and evidence. A team project does not automatically demonstrate each person's capabilities. Participation does not guarantee prizes, university admission, employment or Passport issuance.

Mars Challenge is the international programme, methodology and community. Mars Jam is its institutional and territorial activation format. The Grand Jam is the international convergence event.

The Real-Life Readiness Passport was conceived as a personal, cumulative record of supported evidence. It does not depend exclusively on a Mars Jam or a final. The Lab + Observatory form the experience, process recording and evidence layer; observing is not the same as publishing or certifying.

These relationships do not require everyone to engage with every component or grant automatic access from one to another.

Tell us which institution the proposal represents, which community it aims to mobilise and which purpose it would like to explore. The next step is a conversation to understand the context and review the applicable conditions.

We use the programme's shared contact channel. Website onboarding or commitments are not required before speaking with the team. Proposal assessment and any agreement are handled subsequently through the appropriate channels.