Tallinn Hosts City Resilience Hackathon with €75,000 Prize Fund
An international hackathon bringing together talents, teams and startups to develop practical solutions for city resilience, service continuity and community strengthening. The event carries a €75,000 prize fund, and the best-performing teams will move forward into pilot projects run in cooperation with partner cities — meaning solutions built during the two days have a real path to deployment, not just a demo and a certificate.
City Resilience Hack is built around future-oriented collaboration: the actual, stated needs of five European cities — Tallinn, Helsinki, Valencia, Dnipro and Lviv — are matched against expertise in technology, data, design, business and defense. Participants spend two days developing solutions with the explicit goal of testing them in a real urban environment afterward.
Challenge areas
- Smart and connected digital platforms — tools that let cities share and act on data across departments and partners
- Resilient critical systems and operational response — keeping infrastructure and services running under stress
- Crisis preparedness and communication — reliable information exchange when it matters most
- Health and social security — better coordination of health and social support systems
Specific problem areas include data-driven decision-making, situational awareness, citizen engagement, infrastructure and service continuity, and health/social support coordination.
Who should apply
Individuals, teams and startups from IT, defense, entrepreneurship, data, cybersecurity, logistics, urban planning, health, or UX/UI design. Cities and organisers are explicitly looking for cross-disciplinary teams — a single-discipline group is less likely to produce something pilotable. If you work in Romania on smart-city solutions, civic tech, or crisis-response systems, this is a direct route to European city partners and a meaningful prize pool.
Format & practical details
- Location: Energy Discovery Center, Tallinn (Estonia) — on-site, no remote option
- Language: English
- Dates: September 24–25, 2026
- Application deadline: September 10, 2026
- Organisers: City of Tallinn and Tehnopol, with partner cities Valencia, Helsinki, Dnipro and Lviv
More information and application: https://www.tehnopol.ee/en/project/city-resilience-hack/
For Romanian companies and professionals interested in this opportunity, contact us at evenimente@arhipelago.com, contact@afaceri.ro or contact@arhipelago.com.
