🇨🇭 Switzerland · 💻 Hackathons
Build something in a weekend: hackathons, challenges and build days, most of them free. 11 upcoming across 7 cities, 8 in November 2026.
Also known as the Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon, GLAMhack is a yearly event that brings together a broad coalition of cultural heritage institutions, members of the research community, tech-curious creatives, open data advocates and many more. The main goal of the GLAMhack is to build bridges between different actors in the field and encourage collaboration and innovation. Furthermore, as
Welcome to our Friday Hacking Session! Have an AI-related idea you’ve been meaning to build? Join our Friday evening hacking sessions, organized together with VMI. Whether you’re coming solo or as part of a team, you’ll have 2-3 hours to turn your idea into a prototype, followed by demos at the end. It’s also a great opportunity to work on an existing ETH AI Club Project or start building toward a
The NASA International Space Apps Challenge is an annual global hackathon where participants use open data from NASA and its partner space agencies to solve real-world challenges on Earth and in space.
«Hack Apertus» Liebefeld eröffnet die 2. Etappe von «Hack Apertus», einer schweizweiten Hackathon-Serie rund um Apertus, das offene Grosssprachmodell der Schweiz – und die erste Etappe, an der man persönlich teilnehmen kann. Über 2 Tage hinweg nehmen sich Teams Challenges unserer Partner an und verwandeln sie in funktionierende Prototypen auf Basis von Apertus, entwickelt für souveräne Infrastrukt
Du hast eine Idee für ein Spiel und möchtest sie gemeinsam mit anderen in kurzer Zeit zum Leben erwecken? Bist du interessiert in Programmierung, Game Design, 2D- oder 3D-Art, Sound, Storytelling oder hast Begeisterung fürs kreative Tüfteln? Dann komm zu unserem Game Jam! Unter dem offenen Thema "open" sind deiner Kreativität keine Grenzen gesetzt: Entwickle ein Spiel über ein offenes Konfitüreng
LauzHack’s 10th edition is coming to EPFL on Nov 21–22, 2026!🔥 A weekend to prototype ideas, meet friends, and win prizes. Sponsors: sponsoring@lauzhack.com Participants: https://lauzhack.com/interest
The Zurich stop of the Hack Apertus series, 27–28 November 2026 at the AI Startup Center in Technopark. Teams build on Apertus, Switzerland's sovereign open LLM, solving partner challenges and producing open blueprints for sovereign infrastructure. Strong teams advance to the May 2027 Grand Finals.
On 28 November, 6 teams bring their Apertus prototypes to the stage for the Zurich Finals at the AI Startup Center / Technopark. Over the hackathon, the teams built working prototypes on Apertus, Switzerland's open large language model. Now watch the top 6 pitch them live and compete for a spot at the Grand Finals. There's also a Fireside Chat, the Award Ceremony, and time to connect with others o
The Basel stop of the Hack Apertus series, 4–5 December 2026 at uptownBasel, hosted in the Phoeniqs headquarters. Teams build on Apertus, Switzerland's sovereign open LLM, tackling partner challenges to produce open blueprints for sovereign infrastructure, with the best advancing to the 2027 finals.
A two-stage open-source hackathon community series. Teams build on Apertus to develop blueprints for sovereign infrastructure across the public & private sector
A three-stage open-source hackathon series to evaluate, align, and build on Apertus, Switzerland
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