Participation guidelines

Team formation

• The current team-size limits will appear here once the platform settings are available.
• Eligible participants from Libyan International University (LIU), Roya Academy, Clarkson University and University of Benghazi — Business Incubator may form mixed-institution teams within the same event. Each participant retains their real institution on their profile.
• One active team and one shared team project are used for your event participation. Older personal ideas remain saved as drafts and do not become extra judging submissions automatically.
• Invited students complete only a personal profile and explicitly accept the invitation. If verification is pending, the claim is saved without private team access; resume after verification to recheck eligibility, invitation validity and available places.
• Programme administrators manage verification and operational reviews. Project management controls sensitive team actions; team membership does not grant administration or judging permissions.
• Keep invitation links private. Opening a link does not join a team. Before a claim is saved to an authenticated account, the invitation is remembered only in its browser tab for up to 24 hours; another tab or device may need the original link again.

Personal profiles, privacy and discovery

• Each participant completes a personal profile. You can seek a team without an idea. A team registers its shared project once; new content is written in English while the interface remains available in Arabic and English. Unchanged older content is preserved.
• Completing registration does not publish your profile, allow messages or authorize external AI processing. After verification, Discover → Participants provides separate visibility and chat-request preferences. Existing preferences are not reset when you update your personal profile.
• Review the fields and attachment visibility described by the discovery preferences before enabling them. Phone numbers, email addresses and institutional identifiers are not directory fields. Chat starts through a request that the recipient can accept or decline, with blocking controls.
• Smart suggestions are advisory. Local rules work without external AI; external processing requires its own explicit consent. Suggestions do not assign membership or decide judging results. You can change optional preferences later without rewriting historical agreement records.

Final open-source delivery

• By 25 September, each group submits its working prototype, code repository, documentation and final slide deck.
• The latest successful upload becomes active while previous versions and integrity metadata remain retained and access-controlled.
• Readiness evidence tracks completion and is separate from the final pitch decision. Five winning teams are recognized on 20 October.

Track data and scope rules