2026 EaP Civic Tech Hackathon

1.5 Residential address:

1.7 Gender:

1.8 Age:

1.9 Language skills:

2.1 Title / name of the proposed digital solution

2.2 Targeted town(s)/province(s) and country(ies):

2.3 What societal challenge does your digital solution address? (not more than 2 option)

2.4 Describe your digital solution in brief (not more than 1200 characters)

2.5 The problem to be addressed and how your digital tool will help to solve it (not more than 1800 characters)

2.6 Describe the technical implementation of your digital solution (not more than 1800 characters)

2.7 Describe how your solution be maintained and updated in future (not more than 600 characters)

2.8 Are there any other digital tools that tackle the same challenge in your home country, other EaP countries, in Europe or in the world? (not more than 600 characters)

3.1 Do you have experience of working or volunteering in civil society organisation, community or civil movement, in any form?

3.2 Are you currently working or volunteering in CSO, community or civil movement?

3.3 Provide the name and links (website or social media pages) of the organisation(s) you are associated with (if any) (not more than 600 characters)

3.4 Describe your position and how long you have been working with the organisation(s) (not more than 600 characters):

3.5 Are you a Founder of the organisation?

3.6 Is the Board or management of your organisation/community aware of your interest in this Hackathon programme?

3.7 Do you have technical skills to develop the prototype of the proposed civic tech solution?

3.8 Have you ever participated in or led a project on design and development of other IT products, except for the one proposed for this Hackathon? If yes, can you describe the project and results achieved? (not more than 1200 characters)

Please note that applications for the 2026 EaP Civic Tech Hackathon are accepted only from teams with a minimum set of technical skills to prototype the proposed civic tech solution. Next to the author of the proposed civic tech solution (you as the main applicant), each team shall include two or more IT professionals (developers, designers, data experts, etc.), including at least one developer (depending on the technical aspects of the proposed solution).

There is no top ceiling on the number of members of a hackathon team. However, the organisers will be able to cover the travel and accommodation for a maximum of 3 persons per team to participate in the 2026 Hackathon; the rest of the team members can work on the ideas remotely.

In exceptional cases, if the author of the proposed civic tech solution (you as the main applicant) has the technical skills needed to work on the prototype, the team may have only 2 team member.

4.1 Please provide information on your team members:

5.1 Any further personal information pertinent to this Hackathon (not more than 1200 characters)

The applicant in the context of the present call for Hackathon applications hereby declares that:

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