In this 3-week online adventure, you will get together in a team of 2 to 6 people to work on innovative solutions for a better future. It consists of short videos, online mentoring, and a community of pirates that is there to accompany you on your journey. Throughout this global youth challenge, your team will develop an idea from the ground up and create a final pitch video.

The top 7 teams will be selected through online voting and criteria assessment to participate in the final online pitching event.

The best idea will be selected by an expert jury during the final Pitch Night and will win an educational trip to Silicon Valley, California.

The first step to participating in the #beapirate challenge is individual registration.
After your registration, you will be able to form teams of 2 to 6 people. So, grab your friends, tell them to join your team, and then get ready for 3 weeks of fun. Teammates do not have to be from the same school or even the same country to participate!

You don’t have a team, but still want to join the challenge?
Don’t worry, you can find teammates on our online platform after registration and before the challenge starts.

To participate in the #beapirate challenge is completely free.
You and your team will have a chance to work on innovative solutions for a better future with international experts in their fields. Moreover, the team with the best solution will win a trip to Silicon Valley in California.

We are looking for creative, innovative, and bold ideas and solutions for a better tomorrow. The registration period for the #beapirate challenge runs from April 20 to May 31.

Quick Facts

• • this challenge is designed for young people between 14 to 19
  • teams of 2 to 6 people can enter the challenge
  • each team member needs to register individually on our website
  • after registration, participants will be granted access to the Moonshot Pirates platform, where they can create a team or join an existing one shortly before the challenge starts on June 1
  • Until June 21, each team needs to submit their idea together with 1-minute pitch video. The idea has to address one of the SDGs. Find out more about the SDGs here.

Online Voting
Each team will have time until June 21 (midnight) to submit a 1-minute video about their project. The online voting will start on June 22, where all projects will go online, and will end on June 28. The top-ranked team will automatically get a place on the Final Pitch Night, together with 2 teams who will be selected by partners’ and mentors’ votes. The additional 4 teams will be selected based on the 4 different criteria: impact, feasibility, radicality, and WOW Effect – “does it put a smile on your customer’s face” and based on the results from the online voting.

Online Pitch Day, Jury Voting & Criteria
The 7 selected teams will present their projects again to the judges during the online public Pitch Day. Each team will have 3 minutes to pitch and judges will have 3 minutes to ask questions. The winning team will be awarded a trip to Silicon Valley in California.

We’ve collected answers to the questions we get asked the most about applying to the #beapirate challenge, program, Silicon Valley trip, and other related questions.

Want to find out what happened in previous #beapirate challenges? Check out what ideas got developed, final pitch nights and who were the winners to get an idea of what is expecting you on this awrrrsome journey!