Civic Innovation & Community Solutions
Empowering participants to create tangible solutions for daily life and Timișoara's community challenges.
Start from your own experience. Pick any problem you’ve personally run into, and turn it into a working solution.
Tackle real challenges straight from Timișoara’s citizens and tourists, gathered through the Vocea Cetățenilor activity. Build solutions that make everyday life in the community better.
Cybersecurity & Digital Defense
The city's digital infrastructure comes under attack. Trace intrusions, expose vulnerabilities, and defend the city.
Step into a real digital crisis. Race against the clock with your team to trace hidden intrusions, expose key weaknesses and stop threats before the damage spreads across the city network.
Art, Heritage & Interactive Culture
Reimagining how cultural heritage is experienced through interactive, multi-sensory installations in public spaces.
Use Timișoara’s heritage and public spaces to design interactive setups blending sound, visuals and physical elements. Turn any street, gallery or hidden corner into a walk-through environment where people actively participate and keep local culture evolving.
Connected Communities, Mobility & Healthcare
Connecting people and places, greener urban mobility, and modern accessible healthcare for citizens.
Rethink how people, businesses and communities interact with the places around them. Build innovative digital solutions that connect people, services, infrastructure and data to make cities and communities smarter, safer, more efficient and more sustainable.
Use real city data on bike lanes and transit to design cleaner, seamless urban transport.
Build next-gen health tech to improve patient care, prevention and healthcare access for all.
48 hours of building, collaboration, and innovation in the heart of Timișoara.
Registrations for UniHack 8 are officially closed. If you already registered, please log in to the portal to manage your squad and prepare for the hackathon.
Everything you need to turn bold ideas into working prototypes in 48 hours—surrounded by ambitious peers, expert mentors, and the civic spirit of Timișoara.
UniHack is entirely free. We take care of meals, midnight snacks, coffee, energy drinks, and exclusive event swag so you can focus on building.
Experienced software engineers, cloud architects, and product designers are on-site throughout the event to guide architectures and resolve technical roadblocks.
Come with a complete squad of 2 to 4 or register as a solo hacker. Dedicated pre-event matchmaking sessions help you connect with complementary skillsets.
Projects address tangible challenges in community infrastructure, digital culture, and urban life, with opportunities to pitch directly to public institutions.
Access developer APIs, cloud compute, testing environments, and hardware resources to turn concept wireframes into deployed applications.
Collaborate with student builders and researchers from universities across Romania and Europe, forming long-term friendships and future startup partnerships.
Collaborating with leading institutions, tech visionaries, and community drivers to empower the next generation of builders.
Empowering students and civic innovation
Key dates and schedule starting from 1st November.
1-on-1 sessions with technical mentors to refine project scope and architecture.
Keynote talks, quartier deep dives, mentor introductions, and team networking.
48 hours of uninterrupted hacking, checkpoint reviews, sponsor challenges & pitching.
Post-hackathon community presentations, project demos, awards ceremony & follow-ups.
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