about hackathon österreich

what this is

Hackathon Österreich is a listings directory. It tracks hackathons taking place in Austria and puts them on one page, sorted by date, with the dates, location, ticket price and prize information attached to each one, and it browses by 6 city hubs.

Right now there are 14 upcoming events listed. That number moves every week — the collection run adds what it finds, and an event drops out of the main list into the archive once it has happened. The directory is new, so expect it to be on the thin side for a while; what is here is real.

We do not run hackathons. Every listing links out to the organiser's own page, which is where registration, rules, schedules and any questions about the event itself belong. Think of this as an index, not an intermediary.

where the listings come from

Listings are gathered automatically. Once a week, on a Sunday, a collection run checks the public event platforms that Austrian hackathon organisers actually use — Luma first of all, then Eventbrite, Meetup and Devpost — and collects anything that looks like a hackathon happening in Austria, whether the listing calls it a Hackathon (the same word in German). Organisers can also add an event directly through the submit form.

Automated collection is the only way to keep a directory of this kind current, but it is also the part most likely to be wrong, so candidates are filtered before they are published:

• Austria only. German is also the language of Germany and Switzerland, and Salzburg, Linz and Graz have namesakes across borders. An event is only accepted when something other than the city name and the language confirms it is Austrian: a .at link, the Europe/Vienna timezone, an Austrian university or organisation, a four-digit PLZ, or Austria-only eligibility rules. A German-language online listing from Germany or Switzerland is not an Austrian event and is deliberately kept out. One trap is specific to Austria: Eventbrite has tagged a genuine Vienna hackathon with the country code AU — Australia — so the collection run checks the venue address before trusting the country field.
• Actually a hackathon. Build weekends, game jams, buildathons, datathons and hack days and similar hands-on competitions. Conferences, webinars and meetups that merely mention the word do not qualify.
• Online events need a Austrian signal. An online listing is only kept if something ties it here — a local link, a local timezone, or Austria-only eligibility rules.
• Still upcoming. Past events move to an archive section rather than the main listings.
• Not a duplicate. The same event cross-posted to two platforms is matched on its link or its title and merged into one listing.

how the listings are written

Once an event is accepted, its page is read and the details are pulled out — dates normalised to the local format (26. Sep. 2026), prices to euro, written € 2.500 as de-AT does, with the symbol first, the venue and address separated out, the banner image copied onto our own servers rather than hotlinked from the organiser. Titles stay exactly as the organiser wrote them. Wien is kept as the organiser wrote it, with the English exonym in the URL only.

how the city hubs work

Six hub cities — Wien, Graz, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck and Klagenfurt — plus the districts and towns around them. Each hub covers the area around it rather than the city limits alone, so events in Klosterneuburg, Wels, Hall in Tirol or Villach all show up under their nearest hub. Dornbirn, Bregenz, Feldkirch, Eisenstadt and Krems keep their own name and show under all events. The kinds of event you will find — university and FH hackathons (TU Wien, TU Graz, JKU, FH JOANNEUM), corporate and bank challenges, civic open-data events at data.gv.at, the AEC and Lakeside programmes and game jams — are listed on the guide page.

money

The directory is funded by featured listings: an organiser can show their event as a banner on every page for seven days for a one-time fee. The order of ordinary listings is unaffected — it stays chronological.