Join our locations for the 10th CASSINI Hackathon: EU Space for Consumer Experience
Are you ready to take on real-world challenges using EU Space technologies? The 10th CASSINI Hackathon is approaching. Happening across 10 different European locations from November 7-9, 2025, this hackathon will give innovators a chance to leverage EU space assets like Copernicus, Galileo, EGNOS, and Secure SATCOM to solve challenges close to customers from different domains.
#cassiniEU invites EU's brightest minds to take part in this exciting event!
Meet the 10 Local Organisers Hosting the Hackathon
For the 10th edition, 10 local organisers will host events in their regions. Each organiser brings unique expertise and a strong local ecosystem, helping to transform participants' ideas into impactful solutions.
Here are the selected local organisers:
1. BeCentral, Belgium
Housed directly inside Brussels Central Station, BeCentral is a community-driven digital campus where learning, startup building and public-interest tech live side by side. The campus spans 10,500 m², giving founders and learners room to prototype, host events and meet partners without leaving the city’s main transport hub. Its mission - “to help everyone become an actor of the digital revolution” - maps naturally onto CASSINI’s goal of moving space-enabled ideas from concept to impact.
2. Sofia Tech Park, Bulgaria
Bulgaria’s first science and technology park brings a full innovation district together: Startup services, event forums and an applied R&D complex. The park’s 11 laboratories and the on-site Discoverer petascale supercomputer provide uncommon depth for rapid testing, modelling, and data-heavy experiments. Sofia Tech Park therefore provides a suiting spot for teams building innovative solutions using high-tech data from space.
3. Helsinki Think Company, Finland
The University of Helsinki’s entrepreneurship society turns academic insight into action through free coworking, challenges and hands-on programmes. With community spaces on all four university campuses (City Centre, Meilahti, Viikki and Kumpula), teams can iterate in a low-barrier setting and plug into researchers, students, and public-sector partners—the perfect environment for creating space-driven solutions for real users.
4. N3XTCODER, Germany
Berlin-based N3XTCODER designs and delivers impact-focused hackathons and product sprints, helping civic, corporate and NGO partners move fast from challenge to prototype. Since 2016 they’ve convened 10,000+ participants, pairing agile product craft with social-impact missions - a strong match for CASSINI teams turning EU Space assets into practical tools for communities and industries.
5. Impact Hub Athens – Greece
As part of the global Impact Hub network, Impact Hub Athens nurtures purpose-driven ventures through incubation, capacity-building and an active coworking and events community. Its day-to-day work connects founders, NGOs, and public bodies, which provides exactly the cross-sector mix that helps space-enabled ideas find early adopters, pilots and long-term partners during and beyond the hackathon weekend.
6. H-FARM, Italy
H-FARM blends education, entrepreneurship, and corporate innovation on a single open campus near Venice. Set across 51 hectares overlooking the lagoon, it brings students, founders, and established companies into daily proximity through events, applied-learning programmes and venture activities - an ideal launchpad for accelerating prototypes into real-world pilots powered by EU Space data.
7. Prishtina REA – Kosovo Hub, Kosovo
Prishtina REA is a long-standing innovation and economic-development organisation with experience across ICT, entrepreneurship, and public-sector modernisation. Founded in 2001, it reports 350+ projects delivered in Kosovo and the Western Balkans and leads Kosovo’s Enterprise Europe Network consortium. This expertise provides the hackathon teams with both, seasoned guidance, and routes to scale promising space-enabled products into regional markets.
8. University of New Caledonia (UNC) & PIURN, New Caledonia
UNC anchors New Caledonia’s public research and higher-education ecosystem from its Nouville campus in Nouméa, connecting academic expertise with local needs such as climate, coasts, and logistics. Its partnership with the Pacific Islands Universities Regional Network (PIURN) - a consortium of 15 universities in 8 Pacific Island countries and territories - brings a uniquely Pacific lens and a ready pathway for testing and transferring space-enabled solutions across island communities.
9. Krakow Technology Park /
Krakowski Park Technologiczny, Poland
The Krakow Technology Park operates as a comprehensive “one-stop-shop” for innovation in Małopolska, combining incubation, acceleration, advisory services, and the Polish Investment Zone under one roof. It also supports space-sector companies through events, brokerage and programmes which enables the teams to move from hackathon momentum to sustained development inside a mature regional ecosystem.
10. Slovak Space Office, Slovakia
The Slovak Space Office is a joint effort between the Ministry of Education (policy and international coordination) and SARIO Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency). As the national contact point for international cooperation, it helps Slovak entrepreneurs and researchers engage with European programmes and partners - an essential bridge helping successful hackathon team to integrate their solutions with the wider EU space economy.
Shape the Future of European Consumer Experience with EU Space Technology:
The 10th CASSINI Hackathon offers the opportunity to develop impactful solutions that can shape how we experience everyday topic in Europe. Participants will tackle three major challenges during the event, all designed to make use of EU Space technologies.
- Challenge 1: Immersive Gameplay with Space Technology & Data —Leverage Earth observation data to revolutionise gaming.
- Challenge 2: Space-Powered Performance - Transforming Sports—Develop space-based solution for athlete performance and fan engagement.
- Challenge 3: Beyond Horizons – Redefining Travel with Space Innovation —Rethink the way we travel by using EU space data.
Key Dates to Remember
- Big Ideas Campaign: October 13-24, 2025 (recordings available)
- Hackathon Weekend: November 7-9, 2025
- Demo-Day: November 12, 2025
Join the Innovation Movement
Don't miss your chance to be part of the 10th CASSINI Hackathon. Whether you're an entrepreneur, a student, or simply excited about space, this event offers the perfect platform to contribute to Consumer Experience, using EU space data.
Register now: cassini.eu/hackathons
Registration Deadline: November 6, 2025
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