48 Hours, 80 Talents, 20 Prototypes – A Sprint Toward a Circular Future How do you turn ambitious visions for a circular economy into tangible prototypes—within just 48 hours?From 13–14 November 2025, more than 80 students from the University of Innsbruck and TH Rosenheim came together...
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IncluNet – An Inclusive Social Network for Everyone At InnoDays #SocialInnovation 2024, the team tackled the powerful #SocialInclusion challenge posed by Caritas:"How might we design interaction spaces to enable person-centered assistance for people with impairments and promote inclusion?" From this question, the idea for IncluNet was born...
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How to frame hackathon challenges right? This is the third article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #3: "Frame challenges right" Success in innovation often hinges on accurately identifying and framing challenges. How we define the problem sets the stage for the...
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What Makes a Great Challenge Brief for Hackathons? This is the fourth article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #4: "Craft a compelling challenge brief" In the dynamic world of hackathons, the challenge brief is the cornerstone that shapes the journey from...
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How to Find Committed Champions for Hackathon Success? This is the fifth article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #5: "Find Committed Champions to Play Dual Role" Over a decade of organizing InnoDays, we’ve learned that the success of hackathons often hinges...
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How to Engage Employees in Hackathons? This is the sixth article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #6: Engage Employees Across the Organization Employee engagement is crucial to hackathons' success. Without the active involvement and enthusiasm of your team, even the most...
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Whom to Involve in a Hackathon? This is the seventh article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #7: Involve Motivated and Diverse Participants Over the past decade, InnoDays has brought together innovators, entrepreneurs, and changemakers to tackle real-world challenges. One of the...
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What Does an Effective Hackathon Process Look Like? This is the eighth article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #8: Structure iterative process to validate idea Innovation is rarely a linear journey. Great ideas don’t emerge fully formed; they need to be...
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How Can the Right Space Unlock Innovation during Hackathons? This is the ninth article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #9: Provide an Exploration Space Innovation doesn’t happen in isolation. It thrives in environments that foster creativity, collaboration, and unexpected encounters. Over...
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How to Keep Momentum After a Hackathon Ends? This is the tenth article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #10: Ensure a Path for Continuation Hackathons are excellent at sparking innovative ideas—but what happens after the event ends? After running InnoDays for a...
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How to select impactful challenges for hackathons? This is the second article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #2: "Select an impactful challenge" At InnoDays, we believe in the power of framing challenges with precision and clarity, sparking creativity and driving participants...
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When and why should you run a corporate hackathon? This is the first article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #1: "Clarify purpose." In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, corporate hackathons have become a cornerstone for driving innovation, fostering a dynamic culture,...
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4 Challenges, 170+ talents, 48 hours: At the "InnoDays #SeamlessExperience 2025", the focus was on bold ideas to shape the future of the tourism. Vienna, May 14th-May 16th, 2025. “From idea to prototype in 48 hours” – Under this motto, more than 170 creative minds from various...
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2 Challenges, 50+ talents, 48 hours time: At the "InnoDays #SocialInnovation 2024", the focus was on new ideas to shape the future of the social sector. Full recap coming soon! InnoDays Factbox - October 16th-October 18th, 2024 - InnoDays brings together innovative minds to develop new solutions to key...
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4 Challenges, 130+ talents, 48 hours time: At the "InnoDays #AI Powered Tourism 2024", the focus was on new ideas to shape the future of tourism. Vienna, June 5th-June 7th, 2024. "From idea to prototype in 48 hours" - Under this motto, more than 130 creative...
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3 Challenges, 17 teams, 48 hours; the "InnoDays Fall 2023" brought companies and young talents together to develop innovative solutions with a positive impact. Dornbirn, October 18th-20th, 2023. "From idea to prototype in 48 hours" - Under this motto, more than 70 creative minds from different...
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1 Challenge, 35 talents, 24 hours time: At the "InnoDays #AI 2023", the focus was on using AI to capture the stock level of people’s household goods and predict when they need replenishment. Berlin, June 8th-June 9th, 2023. "From idea to prototype in 48 hours" -...
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5 Challenges, 140+ talents, 48 hours time: At the "InnoDays Spring 2023", the focus was on new ideas to foster sustainable tourism using data. Vienna, May 31st-June 2nd, 2023. "From idea to prototype in 48 hours" - Under this motto, more than 140 creative minds from...
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1 Challenge, 217 talents, 48 hours time: At the "InnoDays Spring", the focus was on new ideas for the Smart Circular Kitchen Vienna, June 1, 2020. "From idea to prototype in 48 hours" - Under this motto, more than 200 creative minds from different universities worked...
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4 challenges, 95 participants, 55+ mentors, and 22 prototypes! The hybrid InnoDays Fall was a success. On-site and remote participants worked for 48 hours to prototype solutions to four exciting innovation challenges. Liebherr asked: "How might we rethink the Human-Machine Interface to make operating cranes...
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