# Being a partner at oSoc ## Why should I participate? **πŸ‘¨πŸΎβ€πŸ’Ό Hiring**\ **πŸ™‡πŸ½β€β™‚οΈ Giving back**\ **πŸ™‹πŸΌ Networking**\ **πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ”¬ Experimenting** Some partners do it to give back to the community, others do it to network, and some do it to find hiring prospects. On the one hand organisations get access to fresh ideas from young and ambitious students, on the other they have access to the expertise of many experienced coaches. It’s the perfect way to finally get started on that cool idea or project you had, and really build something. Participating in osoc enables your organisation to bring your open innovation idea or project to life while providing the next generation of web developers, designers, communication specialists and project managers with a real challenge. In one month the students will do their utter best to develop your idea into a real innovative open product or service. > A 4-week hackathon lets you actually ship something β€” it’s not just good for your image. > > β€” Bert Jehoul ## **What is the impact that I can expect for my organisation?** Through the diverse set of participants' skills and expertise at open summer of code, you can co-create an innovative digital solution for the challenges your organisation faces. All while fostering the individual social impact of engaging a diverse and talented group of students in a digital transformative project as well as a broader societal impact of training a new generation on the importance of open data use and open source coding in a sustainable way that simultaneously generates economic value. Moreover, if you are searching for some top notch business, design or IT-students to recruit, here’s your chance! If you like how members of your team (or others) performed in this 4 week programme, you can decide to make the final call. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://help.osoc.be/global/partners/partners.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.