Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hackathons in Europe

This page lists 209 upcoming Artificial Intelligence (AI) hackathons, challenges and innovation competitions across Europe. Hackathon Hub continuously tracks Artificial Intelligence (AI) events and shows dates, locations, application deadlines and organizer information for each one. The listed events span 28 countries, with venues in London, Munich and Zurich among others. 205 events run on site or hybrid, while 4 can be joined fully online. 8 events are explicitly beginner-friendly. 45 hackathons offer prize money. The next event to start is "From Dusk Till Dawn Hackathon #01 by Agents 0.0.7. Community" on 8 October 2026. New entries appear as soon as they have been reviewed by the editorial team.

Currently on Hackathon Hub

Upcoming hackathons: 209
Countries: 28
Cities: 113
Next event: From Dusk Till Dawn Hackathon #01 by Agents 0.0.7. Community · 8 October 2026
Last updated: 7 October 2026

Data as of 2026-10-07 · figures on this page come from the listed events.

Upcoming events

From Dusk Till Dawn Hackathon #01 by Agents 0.0.7. Community · 2026-10-08 — 2026-10-09 · Prague, CZ
Light x Lovable x Personio Finance Hackathon · 2026-10-08 · Munich, DE
AI Hackathon. Build an AI Tool in 6 Hours · 2026-10-08 — 2026-10-08 · Taunton, GB
Impulse Hack #1 · 2026-10-09 · Zurich, CH
Build with AI: Lovable Wrocław Buildathon · 2026-10-09 · Wrocław, PL
Notion 🖤’s Dublin × Dublin AI Week: Student Hackathon 2026 · 2026-10-09 · Dublin, IE
Flaming Shield'26: DEFEND THE SKY · 2026-10-09 — 2026-10-11 · Kaunas, LT
AI for Impact Hackathon · 2026-10-09 — 2026-10-10 · Toulouse, Occitanie, FR
404: Pothole Not Found. The LOKI Urban Monitoring Hackathon · 2026-10-09 · Turin, IT
CROSSROADS AI HACKATHON · 2026-10-09 — 2026-10-11 · Sofia, BG
DevFest 2026 Hackathon · 2026-10-09 — 2026-10-11 · Belgrade, RS
Barcelona AI Hackathon · 2026-10-09 — 2026-10-10 · Barcelona, ES
Hackathon Club Hispanidad Futura · 2026-10-10 · Madrid, ES
Prompt2Screen - AI Cinema Hackathon by VIA · 2026-10-10 · Turin, IT
JunctionX Lisbon · 2026-10-10 — 2026-10-11 · Porto Salvo, PT
Secure Horizons · 2026-10-10 — 2026-10-11 · Cergy, FR
London AI Hackathon: AI Transformation of Services · 2026-10-10 — 2026-10-10 · London, GB
{Tech: Europe} Agentic AI Hack · 2026-10-10 — 2026-10-10 · Zurich, CH
Hacktoberfest Hack Day Madrid · 2026-10-10 — 2026-10-10 · Madrid, ES
AI for Particle Accelerators Hackathon · 2026-10-11 — 2026-10-16 · Les Andelys, FR
Hacktoberfest Hack Day Manchester x Open Source Society UoM · 2026-10-11 — 2026-10-11 · Manchester, GB
ODISSEE GPU Hackathon · 2026-10-12 — 2026-10-15 · Bordeaux, FR
COLOURS CoLab & Hackathon: From Thought to Action – Human-Centred Neurotechnologies for Communication, Rehabilitation and Inclusion · 2026-10-12 — 2026-10-16 · Ferrara, IT
Build anything with Codex · 2026-10-12 — 2026-10-12 · Beşiktaş, İstanbul, TR
AMD Developer Hackathon: ACT III · 2026-10-12 — 2026-10-18 · Milan, Lombardia, IT
Light x Lovable x Grant Thornton Finance Hackathon · 2026-10-13 · Stockholm, SE
Hack Night: Content Machine · 2026-10-13 · St. Gallen, CH
Applied AI Data Hackathon: Transform Your Data into Concrete Value · 2026-10-13 — 2026-10-13 · Milan, IT
Hackathon: Learn with the AI Loop · 2026-10-14 — 2026-10-15 · Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, BE
ISM Founders Hub - Hackathon 001 · 2026-10-14 · Vilnius, LT
Buildathon with MongoDB, Vercel & Tavily · 2026-10-14 · London, GB
Open Agent Hackathon 2026 · 2026-10-15 — 2026-10-20 · Online
Payflows × Anthropic Finance Hackathon (Paris) · 2026-10-15 · Paris, FR
App After Dark: Mobile App Hackathon · 2026-10-15 · London, GB
EUDIS Defence Hackathon 2026 · 2026-10-15 — 2026-10-17 · Soave, Veneto, IT
Stripe x Briefcase: AI FinTech London Hackathon · 2026-10-15 · London, GB
Chief of Staff AI Buildathon · 2026-10-15 · Berlin, DE
Accel AI Innovate London · 2026-10-15 — 2026-10-15 · London, England, GB
Reinvent the Wheel: A Tools for Science Hack · 2026-10-16 — 2026-10-18 · London, GB
Tax Tech Hackathon 2026 · 2026-10-16 — 2026-10-18 · Frankfurt, DE
Build Agents That Remember Hackathon · 2026-10-16 — 2026-10-18 · Paris, FR
Ocean Hackathon®: Data, an Event and an International Community · 2026-10-16 — 2026-10-18 · Brest, FR
VibeDays: AI Safety Hackathon · 2026-10-16 — 2026-10-17 · Puteaux, FR
JunctionX Turku 2026 - Hack the Future! · 2026-10-16 — 2026-10-18 · Turku, FI
Green Circles Manchester | AI Hackathon | Supported by Barclays · 2026-10-16 · Manchester, GB
Impulse Hack #2 · 2026-10-16 · Zurich, CH
European Defense Tech Hackathon - Sofia · 2026-10-16 — 2026-10-18 · Sofia, BG
TechWarriors Hackathon – Against Gender-Based Violence · 2026-10-16 — 2026-10-17 · Vicenza, Veneto, IT
Hackathon AI Iași 2026 · 2026-10-16 — 2026-10-18 · Iași, RO
Qhack 2026 · 2026-10-16 — 2026-10-23 · Online
Investing in Thriving Communities at SustainableFinance Live · 2026-10-16 — 2026-10-27 · London, England, GB
Hacktoberfest Hack Day Gibraltar x AI Collective Gibraltar · 2026-10-16 — 2026-10-16 · Gibraltar, GI
SchubKI Hackathon · 2026-10-16 — 2026-10-21 · Online
ERH Physical AI Hackathon · 2026-10-16 — 2026-10-18 · Schlieren, CH
TechEx Amsterdam Hackathon - AI & Big Data Expo Europe · 2026-10-16 — 2026-10-20 · Amsterdam, NL
Real-Time Video Agents Hack - LDN · 2026-10-17 · London, GB
AMD Developer Hackathon: ACT III — Milan · 2026-10-17 — 2026-10-18 · Milan, IT
AMD Developer Hackathon: ACT III — Rome · 2026-10-17 — 2026-10-18 · Rome, IT
Hacktoberfest Hack Day Milan x Coding Bunker · 2026-10-17 — 2026-10-17 · Milan, IT
Physical AI Hack · 2026-10-17 — 2026-10-17 · London, GB
Hacktoberfest Hack Day Portimão x StartAlgarve · 2026-10-17 — 2026-10-17 · Portimão, PT
AMD Developer Hackathon: ACT III — Imperia · 2026-10-17 — 2026-10-18 · Imperia, IT
Hacktoberfest Hack Day Falmouth x Engineered Arts Ltd · 2026-10-17 — 2026-10-17 · Falmouth, GB
Nebius Build Week Hackathon in Partnership with NVIDIA · 2026-10-18 · Berlin, DE
«Hack Apertus» Liebefeld · 2026-10-18 — 2026-10-19 · Köniz, Bern, CH
Dublin. Vibe Coding Club: Building Chrome Extensions · 2026-10-19 · Dublin, IE
Université de Lille Hackathon 2026 · 2026-10-19 — 2026-11-16 · Lille, FR
$ hackathon_ · 2026-10-19 — 2026-10-20 · Prague, CZ
Build Before You Invest: AI Opportunity Hackathon · 2026-10-20 · Oslo, NO
ServiceNow Hackathon Milan – Don't just talk about AI. Create it. · 2026-10-20 — 2026-10-20 · Milan, IT
FinOps Hackathon · 2026-10-20 — 2026-10-20 · London, GB
Local Site CPH: Open Scientific Intelligence Hackathon · 2026-10-21 — 2026-10-22 · Copenhagen, DK
Hack your Campus · 2026-10-21 — 2026-10-23 · Saint-Martin-d'Hères, FR
Open Scientific Intelligence Hackathon · 2026-10-21 — 2026-10-22 · Online
Databricks UK Innovation Hackathon with Colibri Digital · 2026-10-21 · GB
Peekthrough October Hackathon with ElevenLabs · 2026-10-22 · Dublin, IE
Business-Academia Hackathon 2026 · 2026-10-22 — 2026-10-23 · Zurich, CH
FastwebAI Hackathon · 2026-10-22 — 2026-10-23 · Milan, Lombardia, IT
Munich Hackathon 2026 · 2026-10-22 · Munich, DE
HackersGen · 2026-10-22 — 2026-10-22 · Treviglio, IT
Accel AI Innovate Paris · 2026-10-22 — 2026-10-22 · Paris, FR
ServiceNow Hackathon Rome · 2026-10-22 — 2026-10-22 · Rome, IT
AI Lawcraft 2026 - legal hackathon and competition · 2026-10-22 — 2026-10-22 · Oslo, NO
Climate Innovation Challenge · 2026-10-22 — 2026-10-22 · Munich, DE
Moonfire • Build Night Hackathon · 2026-10-22 — 2026-10-22 · London, GB
2026 Data for Good - Glasgow · 2026-10-23 — 2026-10-24 · Glasgow, GB
robo.innovate Hackathon 2026 · 2026-10-23 — 2026-10-28 · Munich, DE
Encode London Hackathon and Conference · 2026-10-23 — 2026-10-25 · London, GB
Agentic Hackathon in Vilnius · 2026-10-23 — 2026-10-24 · Vilnius, LT
HACKATHON, BUILD WHAT'S NEXT. · 2026-10-23 — 2026-10-24 · Puteaux, FR
Graphs Gone Wild - Mini Hack · 2026-10-23 · Berlin, DE
EIT Water Hackathon · 2026-10-23 — 2026-10-25 · Sofia, BG
ZentralHack 2026: 24-Hour Hackathon for the Central Switzerland Innovation Scene · 2026-10-23 — 2026-10-24 · Rotkreuz, CH
Cloudflight Coding Contest · 2026-10-23 — 2026-10-23 · Linz, Oberösterreich, AT
AIncient Hack 2026 · 2026-10-23 — 2026-10-24 · Zurich, CH
IBM Responsible AI Hackathon powered by WU & UNIVIE · 2026-10-24 · Vienna, AT
AI in Healthcare Hackathon / Leeds AI Society · 2026-10-24 — 2026-10-25 · Leeds, GB
Build For Impact: The Pink Hack · 2026-10-24 · Copenhagen, DK
Prompt Operations Hackathon · 2026-10-24 — 2026-10-25 · Espoo, FI
OxHack · 2026-10-24 — 2026-10-25 · Oxford, GB
Riga Vibe Coding Day 2026 · 2026-10-24 · Riga, LV
Industrial Agents Hackathon: MM x UVC x Anthropic · 2026-10-24 — 2026-10-25 · Munich, DE
Hackathon Fulda 2026 · 2026-10-24 — 2026-10-25 · Fulda, DE
Lovable x EF x WWB Hackathon · 2026-10-24 — 2026-10-24 · London, GB
Hacktoberfest Hack Day Lviv · 2026-10-24 — 2026-10-24 · Lviv, UA
Hacktoberfest Hack Day Mannheim x Q-Summit · 2026-10-24 — 2026-10-24 · Mannheim, DE
Hacktoberfest Hack Day Pisa x GDG Pisa · 2026-10-24 — 2026-10-24 · Pisa, IT
Hacktoberfest Hack Day Barcelona · 2026-10-24 — 2026-10-24 · Barcelona, ES
AI Hackathon - Zubr Capital · 2026-10-24 · Limassol, Limassol, CY
HackMeridian 2026 · 2026-10-25 — 2026-10-26 · Lisbon, PT
Student Hackathon: THINK BEYOND THE LAB. · 2026-10-25 · Krakow, PL
SpaceXAI Digital Transformation and AI Lab · 2026-10-26 — 2026-10-27 · Braga, PT
Futury Build Days #3 AI Edition – Tech by Hessian.AI · 2026-10-26 — 2026-10-27 · Frankfurt, Hessen, DE
Hacktelier - HETIC - 3 Days from Idea to Project · 2026-10-27 — 2026-10-29 · Paris, FR
LangChain x Data Reply Hackathon: Building with Agent Harnesses (Munich) · 2026-10-27 · Munich, DE
NEXXT AI Hackathon · 2026-10-28 — 2026-10-29 · Bucharest, RO
Brain 1 Hackathon – Build the Future of Cognitive Performance · 2026-10-28 — 2026-10-30 · Neu-Isenburg, DE
thws Hackathon InclusivAI: Empowering Diversity and Reducing Barriers with AI · 2026-10-29 — 2026-10-29 · Würzburg, DE
Hacking for Good 2026 · 2026-10-29 — 2026-10-29 · Ghent, BE
Hacktoberfest Hack Day Annecy x Looties · 2026-10-29 — 2026-10-29 · Annecy, FR
3ALET Hackathon · 2026-10-30 — 2026-10-31 · Novi Sad, Vojvodina, RS
Clinical AI Hackathon Vienna · 2026-10-30 — 2026-11-01 · Vienna, Vienna, AT
Hacktoberfest Hack Day Linz x Young AI Leaders Linz · 2026-10-30 — 2026-10-30 · Linz, AT
HackTheGap Hackathon by WINZ and the Analytics Club at ETH · 2026-10-31 — 2026-11-01 · Zurich, CH
Halloween Hackathon (supported by Lovable) · 2026-10-31 · Berlin, DE
AI for Good Hackathon · 2026-10-31 — 2026-10-31 · St. Sampson, GB
Breast Cancer Awareness Hackathon · 2026-10-31 — 2026-10-31 · Zurich, CH
Hacktoberfest Hack Day Esbjerg · 2026-10-31 — 2026-10-31 · Esbjerg, DK
Hacktoberfest Hack Day Mikkeli x Hacklab Mikkeli ry · 2026-10-31 — 2026-10-31 · Mikkeli, FI
HABS Neuro-AI Hackathon 2026 · 2026-11-02 — 2026-11-30 · Orsay-Gif, FR
AI & Mobility Hackathon 2026 · 2026-11-04 · Delft, NL
Future Makers with Lloyds Banking Group · 2026-11-04 — 2026-11-05 · Dundee, GB
Grok Hackathon at the Museum · 2026-11-05 · Pavia, IT
Founders Hub x DNB Hackathon · 2026-11-05 — 2026-11-05 · Trondheim, NO
ML6 Hackathon | Build Your Own AI Coworker with Claude · 2026-11-05 — 2026-11-05 · Munich, DE
European Defense Tech Hackathon – Copenhagen · 2026-11-06 — 2026-11-08 · Kongens Lyngby, DK
European Defense Tech Hackathon — UNIBW Munich · 2026-11-06 — 2026-11-08 · Neubiberg, DE
Oslo Sprint Hackathon · 2026-11-06 — 2026-11-08 · Oslo, NO
European Defense Tech Hackathon – Lisbon · 2026-11-06 — 2026-11-08 · Lisbon, PT
Space Engineering Challenge 2026 · 2026-11-06 — 2026-11-08 · Romanesti Cave, Timis County, RO
Hackathon for Good #8 · 2026-11-06 — 2026-11-08 · The Hague, Zuid-Holland, NL
Smart City Hackathon Pforzheim · 2026-11-06 — 2026-11-08 · Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, DE
Since AI Hackathon 2026 · 2026-11-06 — 2026-11-08 · Turku, FI
Garaža | Frontier Hackathon · 2026-11-07 — 2026-11-08 · Belgrade, RS
HackTheBurgh · 2026-11-07 — 2026-11-08 · Edinburgh, GB
GreatUniHack 2026 · 2026-11-07 — 2026-11-07 · Manchester, England, GB
HACK THE MITTELSTAND – Agentic AI in Action · 2026-11-10 — 2026-11-10 · Augsburg, DE
The Hackathon in Turin · 2026-11-10 — 2026-11-10 · Turin, IT
aiGrunn Hackathon · 2026-11-11 — 2026-11-13 · Groningen, NL
Futury Build Days #4 Banking & Finance | Tech by JUPITER AI Factory · 2026-11-11 — 2026-11-12 · Frankfurt, Hessen, DE
Miro Meetup Berlin: AI Buildathon · 2026-11-12 · Berlin, DE
Hack the Gap · 2026-11-12 · Bristol, GB
Vibecoding Hackathon · 2026-11-12 — 2026-11-15 · Vilnius, LT
Junction 2026: European Tech Renaissance · 2026-11-13 — 2026-11-15 · Espoo, Uusimaa, FI
HANSEATIC HACKATHON 2026 · 2026-11-13 — 2026-11-14 · Lübeck, DE
LegalTech in Leeds Hackathon 2026 · 2026-11-13 · Leeds, GB
Hack for Impact: Sheffield · 2026-11-13 — 2026-11-13 · Sheffield, GB
ROBOTICS X AI - HACKLAB · 2026-11-14 — 2026-11-15 · Berlin, DE
Gen AI Hackathon · 2026-11-14 — 2026-11-15 · Athens, GR
NASA Space Apps Challenge Bucharest 2026 · 2026-11-14 — 2026-11-15 · Bucharest, RO
NASA Space Apps Challenge Cluj-Napoca 2026 · 2026-11-14 — 2026-11-15 · Cluj-Napoca, RO
The St Andrews Hackathon · 2026-11-15 · St Andrews, GB
Hackathon: Porting and Optimization for Hunter · 2026-11-16 — 2026-12-04 · Stuttgart, DE
GTM Hackathon by Granola x Gemini · 2026-11-17 · London, GB
The QuantMinds Hackathon: Mitigating Cognitive Biases in AI · 2026-11-17 · London, GB
Hack1Robo · 2026-11-20 — 2026-11-22 · Bordeaux, FR
European Defense Tech Hackathon – Paris · 2026-11-20 — 2026-11-22 · Paris, FR
Hackathon Portugal 2026 · 2026-11-20 · Lisbon, PT
AI Coding Hackathon November 2026 · 2026-11-20 — 2026-11-22 · Cologne, DE
Code & Create · 2026-11-20 — 2026-11-22 · Karlsruhe, DE
Techstars Startup Weekend Bari 2026 · 2026-11-20 — 2026-11-22 · Bari, IT
Buildathon Lovable Toulouse – AI Builders · 2026-11-21 · Toulouse, FR
LauzHack - EPFL Hackathon · 2026-11-21 — 2026-11-22 · Lausanne, CH
InnovationIreland x ElevenLabs Hackathon · 2026-11-21 · Galway, IE
DevDay Exchange Community Hackathon: Barcelona · 2026-11-21 · Barcelona, ES
Ideation Hackathon · 2026-11-21 — 2026-11-22 · London, GB
DevFest Münster 2026 | Agentic AI Hackathon · 2026-11-21 — 2026-11-21 · Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE
ESA Datalabs Euclid Hackathon 2026 · 2026-11-23 — 2026-11-26 · Madrid, ES
hackher_ Rome – Eleventh Edition · 2026-11-23 — 2026-11-23 · Rome, IT
TIGER Service – Hackathon for Elderly Care and Remote Assistance Solutions · 2026-11-23 — 2026-11-24 · Milan, IT
AI FIRST Hackathon · 2026-11-24 — 2026-11-25 · Malaga, ES
4th Hackathon @ PMRExpo in collaboration with COREVAS® · 2026-11-24 — 2026-11-26 · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE
Healthcare Hackathon Bavaria - Hacking until the doctor comes! · 2026-11-26 — 2026-11-28 · Munich, DE
Hack the Mittelstand – Agentic AI in Action · 2026-11-26 — 2026-11-26 · Munich, DE
12th CASSINI Hackathon Prague · 2026-11-27 — 2026-11-29 · Prague, CZ
MERGE Hackathon Madrid · 2026-11-27 — 2026-11-29 · Madrid, ES
AI-Thon 2.0 · 2026-11-27 — 2026-11-28 · Düsseldorf, DE
European Defense Tech Hackathon - Berlin · 2026-11-27 — 2026-11-29 · Berlin, DE
12th CASSINI Hackathon · 2026-11-27 — 2026-11-29 · Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, UA
Host Planet & Boostly AI Buildathon · 2026-11-27 · Leeds, GB
BoC Fintech Hackathon 7.0 · 2026-11-27 — 2026-11-29 · Nicosia, CY
«Hack Apertus» Zurich · 2026-11-27 — 2026-11-28 · Zurich, Zürich, CH
Alpen-Adria-University Hackathon · 2026-11-27 — 2026-11-29 · Klagenfut, AT
Prompt Strategy Hackathon · 2026-11-28 — 2026-11-29 · Espoo, FI
«Hack Apertus» Zurich Finals · 2026-11-28 · Zurich, CH
EPALE Edu Hack 2026 — AnimIAmo il Territorio! Sport, art and well-being for adult education. · 2026-11-30 — 2026-12-02 · Naples, IT
NS27 Arctic Express · 2026-12-03 — 2026-12-06 · Espoo, Uusimaa, FI
NTT DATA IkigAIverse · 2026-12-03 — 2026-12-03 · Milan, IT
1ST TIME MEDTECH HACKATHON · 2026-12-03 — 2026-12-05 · Magdeburg, DE
Engineering Microbial Consortia Challenge · 2026-12-04 — 2030-02-04 · Leipzig, DE

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Frequently asked questions

Where can I find upcoming Artificial Intelligence (AI) hackathons in Europe?

Right on this page: Hackathon Hub lists 209 upcoming Artificial Intelligence (AI) hackathons with dates, locations, deadlines and a link to register.

Which cities host Artificial Intelligence (AI) hackathons?

Currently mostly London, Munich, Zurich and Milan. In total the events are spread across 113 cities in 28 countries.

Are there beginner-friendly Artificial Intelligence (AI) hackathons?

Yes. 8 of the currently listed Artificial Intelligence (AI) events are marked beginner-friendly by their organizers, often with mentoring and on-site team matching.

Can I join Artificial Intelligence (AI) hackathons online?

Yes, 4 of the listed Artificial Intelligence (AI) events run fully remote, so you can take part from anywhere.

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Hackathon Hub reviews and extends the events continuously. The most recent entry on this page was updated on 7 October 2026.

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