{"id":574,"date":"2025-04-28T12:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbss.org\/youth\/?page_id=574"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:05:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:05:46","slug":"baltic-sea-region-hackathon-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cbss.org\/youth\/join-us\/baltic-sea-region-hackathon-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltic Sea Region Hackathon 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This year\u2019s edition of [#b_hack] invites young people from across the Baltic Sea Region to explore the theme \u201cFree and Secure Societies. Working together in challenging times.\u201d<\/strong> Through innovation and teamwork, participants will tackle real-world challenges and develop ideas that strengthen both individual freedoms and collective security. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dive into the exciting worlds of AI, storytelling, prototyping<\/strong>, and more. Collaborate with like-minded young tech innovators from across the Baltic Sea Region and enjoy an all-expenses-paid adventure filled with creativity, networking, and unforgettable experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\u2019re looking for passionate changemakers aged 18\u201329<\/strong>, living in or from a CBSS Member State<\/strong> (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, or Sweden). Whether you\u2019re into IT, social media, or simply want to help shape the future of our region \u2014 this is your moment!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Got skills in programming, IT, audiovisual tools<\/strong>, or graphic design<\/strong>? Amazing! Not a tech wizard? No problem \u2014 we\u2019ve got specially designed non-tech sessions too, so there is a place for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You will team up with around five participants and tackle one of eight exciting hackathon topics<\/strong> tailored to your interests and skills. With expert guidance from TH L\u00fcbeck coordinators and access to top-notch datasets and tools provided by the TH L\u00fcbeck, you will co-create innovative solutions and showcase them to VIP officials from Land Schleswig-Holstein<\/strong> and the CBSS<\/strong> on the final day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get ready for an inspiring blend of learning, networking, and fun. Let\u2019s bridge borders and shape the future \u2014 together!<\/p>\n\n\n

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In this track we will explore how misinformation spreads online and how technology can help stop it. We will look at examples from social media and news platforms, learn how to recognize typical patterns of misleading content, and discuss why fake news can be so persuasive. We will explore different methods of fake news detection, from technical ideas to educational or design-based approaches.<\/p>\n

Our goal is to design and prototype ideas for tools that can help users question what they read, check sources more easily, and make more informed decisions in their everyday digital lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Technical requirements and skills:<\/b><\/p>\n

A good mixture of participants with an interest in programming \/ software development, design, analysis and investigation would be ideal. B<\/span><\/span>ring your laptop.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Jack Sparrow is alive! But he is undercover. He has traded his legendary Black Pearl for the less seafaring romanticism of today\u2019s internationally sanctioned merchant ships. Some of these monohull-tankers threaten the Baltic Sea region by posing severe environmental risks. In this track, we examine how independent, open-access information databases and real-time information streams could be used to understand how internationally sanctioned shipping operates in the Baltic Sea\u2014and all of this in full public view, if you solve the problem of fusing and visualizing these data.<\/p>\n

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to track today\u2019s \u201cBlack Pearls\u201d in the Baltic: following their traces across the globe via open, independent data sources to surface suspicious routes, cover maneuvers, and patterns\u2014so sea tales become checkable evidence, and the Baltic is better protected.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A good mixture of participants with an interest in programming \/ software development, data science, data analysis, and an \u201ccriminal investigator’s instinct\u201d would be ideal. <\/span>Bring your laptop, programmers: have an IDE and, preferably, Python installed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is around us, but invisible, yet – mostly existing in chat windows still. AI is missing physicality, including sensor-organs to perceive us and actuation capabilities to manipulate our world. In future, we would like to include AI as a part of our family and therefore, we introduce RoboDog, RoboTurtle, and RoboLoomo. We would like to embody AI agents with their own personalities, such as a mother, father, and child. RoboFamily is to be built on a large language model (LLM) with tool access, allowing agents to control robotic platforms through Python interfaces. The architecture consists of three cooperating agents: a planner for high-level decisions, a hardware controller for embodied actions, and a programmer that generates code and extends system capabilities. The agents communicate, model one another, and coordinate toward shared goals. In our experiment, the agents are granted full-autonomous control of their robotic embodiments and allowed to act freely in real-world interactions. This granted autonomy represents a leap of faith from humans towards AI. In return, this experiment investigates how multiple embodied AI agents cooperate and behave in our beloved real-world.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Liberty and democracy work hand in hand. Freedom of speech, the right to assemble and civic participation are what makes us be heard. But what are people across the baltic region really talking about, even marching for? Sustainability? Safety? Individual rights? In this challenge, you\u2019ll explore the public pulse of democracy through data. From demonstrations and media narratives to trending hashtags and search behavior, you and your team will decide what angle excites you most and how you want to approach it. Your goal is to create a data-driven exploration that uncovers patterns, contrasts, and connections that reveals what moves societies today.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll move through four dynamic phases:<\/p>\n