♻️ Hack the Waste – Virtual International Innovation Hackathon
Hack the Waste is a 24-hour virtual hackathon focused on developing innovative solutions to real-world waste challenges. The event brings together students from around the world to collaborate in multidisciplinary international teams.
The hackathon takes place entirely online from Friday 8 May 2026(13:00) to Saturday 9 May 2026 (13:00). During this intensive 24-hour session, participants work together to address pressing waste-related problems through creativity, technology, and teamwork.
- Fancy a nice management- or IT or gamification project challenge?
- Care to help save earth from drowning in trash?
- Want to think up innovative solutions in a team of students from around the world?
- Do you want to contribute to the solution of a global waste problem?
Imagine that in a span of just 24 hours, you're tasked to create within an "interdisciplinary" team a new approach to waste management. Who knows your proposal convinces investors and may even open new doors for your career.
What?
Hack the Waste is a high-energy, 24-hour online hackathon where you’ll join forces with students from around the world to solve a real waste management challenge. Working in international, interdisciplinary teams, you’ll have the chance to innovate and create impactful solutions for pressing waste issues. The hackathon kicks off with an introduction to the challenge, setting you up to brainstorm, collaborate, and present your ideas to drive sustainable change.
Who?
Students from all over the world
How?
A 24-hour online meeting with participants from the different partner countries:
- establishing connections with members of an international team with the chosen tools
- intermediate assistance by the tutors
- final pitch presentations for the committee
- announcing the winners and the awards ceremony
Learning Outcomes
Teamwork
- Virtual Collaboration
- Teamwork
- Tolerance
- International Professionalism
- Project Management
- Time Management
Innovation & Environment
- Innovation Management
- Social Responsibility & Sustainability
- Design Thinking
- Risk Manangement
Analytics & Presentations
- Research
- Communication
- Pitching,
- Presentation & Demonstration
- Skills
- Digital Transformation