| Start date: | 14 Oct 2025, 09:00 (CEST) | Entry level: | Hackathon (bring your own code) | |
| End date: | 23 Oct 2025, 17:00 (CEST) | Subject area: | Artificial intelligence | |
| Location: | ONLINE (Zoom) | Topics: | Artificial intelligence (all topics) | |
| Language: | English | Target audience: | Academia, industry, public sector | |
| Price: | Free (for eligible participants) | Organizers: | EuroCC Austria, Germany, Poland & their supercomputing centers & NVIDIA & OpenACC |
Together with NVIDIA and OpenACC organization, the EuroCC National Competence Centres of Austria, Germany, and Poland will host an Open AI Hackathon starting 14th October and concluding 23rd October 2025.
Open AI Hackathons are multi-day, intensive hands-on events designed to help AI and ML engineers and data scientists accelerate, optimize, and scale their real-world projects leveraging the latest technologies.
The event pairs participating teams with dedicated expert mentors to enhance the performance, efficiency, and scalability of their applications using state-of-the-art programming models, libraries, and tools. Whether you’re working on deep learning, data analytics, or model optimization, this hackathon provides a unique opportunity to push the boundaries of innovation using an advanced AI and ML infrastructure.
This hackathon is open to everyone looking to take their projects to the next level, however, participating teams have to be based in EU and/or EuroCC countries.
This hackathon is co-organized by the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH (Cyfronet), OpenACC organization, and NVIDIA for EuroCC Austria, EuroCC@GCS, and EuroCC Poland, all National Competence Centres for HPC, HPDA & AI.
Please ensure that your team meets all prerequisites / eligibility before you apply.
Important dates
- TBD Apr/May 2025 – Start of Application Period
- 05 August 2025 – Application Deadline
- TBD Aug/Sep 2025 – Notification about Acceptance
- 07 October 2025, 10:00 – 12:00 (CEST) – Day 0
- 14 October 2025, 09:00 – 17:00 (CEST) – Day 1
- 21 October 2025, 09:00 – 17:00 (CEST) – Day 2
- 22 October 2025, 09:00 – 17:00 (CEST) – Day 3
- 23 October 2025, 09:00 – 17:00 (CEST) – Day 4
Agenda
See Agenda in the left menu for a detailed timetable.
Prerequisites
Teams are expected to be fluent with the code or project they bring to the event and motivated to make progress during the hackathon.
A minimum of 3 team members must participate throughout the entire event. Lack of complete participation will result in the entire team being excused.
Projects brought to the event are required to have a licence attached and detailed in the application. Permissive-style Open Source License (e.g., BSD, MIT, or Apache 2.0 license) are preferred as it's much easier for the hackathon organizers to pair your team with mentors. For more information on why licenses are important and how to obtain one, please use the following links: Software Licenses in Plain English and/or Choose an open source license
Target audience
AI hackathon for teams (minimum 3 team members & teams based in EU and/or EuroCC countries) from academia, industry, and public administration looking to take their AI projects to the next level.
Virtual event format
This hackathon will be hosted online (using Zoom).
All communication will be done through Zoom, Slack, and email.
Each team will be assigned a breakout room to work with mentors on their codes and will present reports (SCRUMs) on their progress to all participants in the main room daily.
Compute resources
Attendees will be given access to a GPU cluster for the duration of the hackathon.
Attending the AI hackathon
If your team is accepted for the AI hackathon, registration information will be provided along with mentor introductions and computational resource access. Accepted teams must:
- Register all team members for the event.
- Review the attendee guide.
- Make sure that at least 3 team membrs participate throughout the entire event.
Recommended
No advanced parallel computing or GPU skills are required, but it is helpful for teams to know the basics of GPU programming and profiling. We recommend familiarising yourself with these concepts by accessing any of the no-charge lectures, tutorials, and labs available to all participants. Please contact the organizers for more information to help you prepare for the hackathon.
Mentors
Event Moderator: TBD
Mentors from NVIDIA and the participating HPC centers
Language
English
Date, time, and location
14.–23.10.2025, 09:00 – 17:00 CEST, LIVE ONLINE (using Zoom)
Prices and eligibility
Due to EuroCC2 regulations, generic or private email addresses cannot be accepted. Please use your official university or company email address to prove your affiliation.
This hackathon is partly funded by the EuroCC 2 project. Therefore, the hackathon is open for participants from academia, industry, and public administration from EU and/or EuroCC countries.
Application
Application for this hackathon is handled by openhackathons.org through their EuroCC Open AI Hackathon (not yet available) page.
All further details
Please see the openhackathons.org event page EuroCC Open AI Hackathon (not yet available) for all further details.
Organizers
This hackathon is jointly organized by the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH (Cyfronet), OpenACC organization, and NVIDIA for EuroCC Austria, EuroCC@GCS, and EuroCC Poland, all National Competence Centres for HPC, HPDA & AI.
Acknowledgements
This course is partially funded by the EuroCC 2 project.
The project has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 101101903. The JU receives support from the Digital Europe Programme and Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Türkiye.
Additional funding for the project comes from the Austrian federal ministries BMBWF and BMK.
