Hackathons – Reaching the Finish Line Faster Together

Together in the best sense of the word: organized by the administrative units Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Career Center (EICC) and Strategic Cooperation as well as the Department Engineering, the Bosch Mobility Hackathon took place at the end of April 2023.

Bosch Mobility Hackathon

Students from FH Campus Wien, FH Technikum Wien and TU Wien spent two days working in six dedicated teams on solutions to a specific problem in the field of autonomous and connected driving. The participants not only got to know the Bosch Eco-System Demonstrator, but also created simulations in CARLA and then implemented these in real-life solutions. Most of the team that secured first place were students from FH Campus Wien: Thomas Winter, Maximilian Nowak and Simon Nenning (all from the degree program Computer Science and Digital Communications). Congratulations!

Legal Tech Hackathon

At the beginning of May, students from FH Campus Wien (degree program Computer Science and Digital Communications) and the Juridicum of the University of Vienna worked on IT solutions to make legal content digitally faster and easier to access at the sixth Legal Tech Hackathon. A jury of legal tech experts evaluated the students' presentations. The hackathon was won by the "Scanderstand" team, which included two students from FH Campus Wien, Florian Bodner and Marlene Zoe Ruf. The winners impressed with an app that automatically recognizes legal references in scanned texts and downloads and displays the corresponding legal texts from the Federal Legal Information System (RIS).

Special thanks to the partners who supported the hackathon: NetzBeweis, digital ilab of the University of Vienna, ris+, MANZ Verlag, LexisNexis Verlag, LeReTo, D.A.S. Rechtsschutz, Future-Law and Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP. The Legal Tech Hackathon is a cooperation between FH Campus Wien and the Institute for Innovation and Digitalization in Law at the University of Vienna under the direction of Nikolaus Forgó.

At the end of September, the Legal Tech Hackathon was awarded the Ars Docendi State Prize of the Ministry of Education in the category "Cooperative forms of teaching and working". Congratulations to the FH team with Igor Miladinovic, Sigrid Schefer-Wenzl, Heimo Hirner, Bernhard Taufner, Leon Freudenthaler (all FH Campus Wien) and Nikolaus Forgó from the University of Vienna.

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