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AI for everyone.

A 48-hour hackathon at TUM in Munich. Students and young professionals build AI for real problems set by companies, hospitals and research labs. Free to take part.

The Makeathon 2027 is in the making

Dates, challenges and applications appear here first.

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In 2026, 500+ builders formed 101 teams and took on four challenges in 48 hours.

Scroll through that weekend hour by hour, under the real sky over the TUM Main Campus from 17 to 19 April 2026.

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Schedule times are approximate; sunrise and sunset are exact.

  1. : Kick-off. The opening ceremony at TUM. The challenges are presented and the hacking starts.
  2. : Sunset. The first evening.
  3. : Midnight. The first night.
  4. : Sunrise. Day two over Munich.
  5. : Workshops and talks. Sessions with speakers and partners run alongside the hacking.
  6. : Sunset. The second evening.
  7. : Midnight. The second night, and the last.
  8. : Sunrise. The final day.
  9. : Submissions close. Every team hands in its prototype.
  10. : Pitches. Teams present to the challenge partners and the jury.
  11. : Results. The top five of each challenge take the first points of the league.

Four challenges. Five places each.

The 2026 results opened the European Hackathon League: the top five in each challenge earned the league's first points.

Challenge byHappyRobot

  1. Place 1: Multiply8 league points
  2. Place 2: Yantra7 league points
  3. Place 3: AskOnce6 league points
  4. Place 4: Clerque4 league points
  5. Place 5: undeterministic tornado4 league points

Challenge bySpherecast

  1. Place 1: bussies8 league points
  2. Place 2: Harissa7 league points
  3. Place 3: Default Name6 league points
  4. Place 4: ASM4 league points
  5. Place 5: Optily4 league points

Challenge byosapiens

  1. Place 1: Non Deterministic8 league points
  2. Place 2: Aguacates7 league points
  3. Place 3: OMEGA-EARTH6 league points
  4. Place 4: error404.ai4 league points
  5. Place 5: GeoPixels4 league points

Challenge byReply

  1. Place 1: TakeTheMoneyAndRun8 league points
  2. Place 2: AgenTUM7 league points
  3. Place 3: y/agent6 league points
  4. Place 4: StudiClaw4 league points
  5. Place 5: 5 heads4 league points

Tech partners

  • Google
  • AMD
  • ElevenLabs
  • Cognee
  • Dify
See the match on the league's site (opens in a new tab)

Eight editions since 2021.

From a weekend with GPT-3 to the first match of a European league.

  1. 2026: Makeathon 2026

    17 to 19 April 2026, Munich

    101 teams on challenges from HappyRobot, Spherecast, osapiens and Reply. The first match of the European Hackathon League.

    The Makeathon wordmark with a rising sun over amber halftone waves: 500+ builders, 17 to 19 April

  2. 2025: Makeathon 2025

    25 to 27 April 2025, Munich

    Challenges from CHECK24 and Reply and an open track by OpenAI, with QuantCo, Jane Street and Entrepreneur First.

    Join the next Makeathon, in gold on navy, with the sun wordmark and the dates 25 to 27 April 2025

  3. 2024: Makeathon 2024

    26 to 28 April 2024, Munich

    Sixteen partners, from Mercedes-Benz and Salesforce to Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, whose challenge became a paper.

    Read the paper (opens in a new tab)
    Makeathon is back, Spring 2024, over a lilac wave

  4. 2023: AI for everyone

    27 to 30 April 2023, Munich

    On the Garching campus, with ESA, Microsoft, the BMW Group, G-Research, Cohere and Daiki.

    AI is for everyone. Makeathon is back. Over a violet wave, dated 28 to 30 April

  5. 2022: AI for Global Impact

    30 September to 2 October 2022, Munich

    A hybrid edition with Microsoft, Roche, IBM and TNG Technology Consulting.

    Makeathon is back, a hybrid 48-hour team challenge on the theme AI4GlobalImpact

  6. 2022: AI4SocialGood

    22 to 24 April 2022, Munich

    Challenges in education, environment and medtech from Infineon, Deloitte, NetApp and MI4People.

    Makeathon is back, in violet and white on dark blue, dated April 2022

  7. 2021: Virtual Makeathon

    15 to 17 October 2021, Online

    A virtual 48-hour edition with Microsoft and appliedAI. Team Cabalytics won with CabMate, which predicts where taxis will be needed across the city.

    A white card titled Why join?, listing awards, cross-functional teams, networking and expert support

  8. 2021: GPT-3 Makeathon

    16 to 18 April 2021, Munich

    The first Makeathon, built on GPT-3 with OpenAI, appliedAI and TUM Venture Labs, and judged by a jury from Cherry Ventures, Microsoft and IBM.

    Four track cards on black: Legal Tech, Healthcare, Marketing and Knowledge Management

Bring a challenge.

Partners set the problems the Makeathon is built around. A challenge comes with:

  • Your own challenge trackTeams build for a problem you set.
  • Access to talentThe CVs of participants who opt in to share them.
  • Your brand on siteYour logo at the venue and a booth of your own.
  • A company pitchIntroduce your company on stage to every participant.

Add a workshop slot, or sponsor the catering.

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Participants with laptops and yellow lanyards fill the rows of a lecture hall, smiling toward the stage
Participants in a TUM lecture hall at the Makeathon.
One hackathon. 40 competing teams. 20+ applications straight into the hiring pipeline.
osapiens, challenge partner

Partners of past editions

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