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title: "World AI Collegiate Championship"
date: 2026-11-21T11:00:00+00:00
end_date: 2026-11-22T10:00:00+00:00
location: "Budapest, HU"
format: hybrid
type: competition
level: student
prize: N/A
tags: "ai, data-science, reproducible-research"
url: "https://waicc-official.org/"
canonical: "https://hackathonhub.eu/events/world-ai-collegiate-championship-bucharest-2026"
---

# World AI Collegiate Championship

**Date:** 2026-11-21 — 2026-11-22  
**Location:** Budapest, HU  
**Format:** hybrid  
**Type:** competition  
**Level:** student  
**Tags:** ai, data-science, reproducible-research

In this 23-hour academic AI competition, teams tackle authentic research problems derived from scientific publications. Participants build, train, and optimize machine learning models within constrained compute limits, emphasizing creativity and methodological understanding over raw processing power. All submissions are automatically evaluated against held-out benchmark datasets to ensure fully reproducible scoring.

[Register or learn more](https://waicc-official.org/)

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