Deadline:
April 12, 2025
Program Starts: May 14, 2025
Program Ends: May 23, 2025
Location(s)
Finland
Minerva Plaza, Siltavuorenpenger 5 A, room K226
Overview
Join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the award-winning Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2025—an exciting chance to collaborate, innovate and push your own boundaries. Apply and be part of this milestone event!
Details
As a CLARIN and DARIAH summer school, Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH25 is truly international, welcoming applications from all over Europe and beyond! This year we are prepared to sponsor a dozen or more participants from outside Finland with flights and accommodation (see Practicalities for details). Participation in #DHH25 is free to all accepted participants.
The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is a chance to experience an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. For researchers and students from computer science and data science, the hackathon gives the opportunity to test their abstract knowledge against complex real-life problems. For people from the humanities and social sciences, it shows what is possible to achieve with such collaboration.
For both, the hackathon gives the experience of intensely working with people from different backgrounds as part of an interdisciplinary team, as, during the hackathon, each group develops a digital humanities research project from start to finish. Working together, they formulate research questions with respect to particular data sets, develop and apply methods and tools to answer them, and present the work at the end of the hackathon.
Themes
This year, the hackathon groups are organised around the following four themes:
- Parliaments and legislation
- Holocaust oral history
- Social media
- Early modern newspapers
Application schedule for #DHH25
- 13.3.–12.4.2025 Application period
- 16.4.2025 Applicants informed of acceptance
- 16.–23.4.2025 Registration to #DHH25 for accepted participants
- 29.4. & 6.5.2025 Two #DHH25 pre-hackathon online preparatory sessions
- 14.–23.5.2025 #DHH25 hackathon in Helsinki
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
All MA level students and beyond, from anywhere can register their interest in #DHH20 during the application period by filling the application form. We might ask you for further information that is needed in the selection procedure.
Dates
Deadline: April 12, 2025
Program starts:
May 14, 2025
Program ends:
May 23, 2025
Program Starts: May 14, 2025
Program Ends: May 23, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
Participation to #DHH25 is free to all accepted participants with the possibility to apply for a bursary for travel and accommodation. We are prepared to fund up to 20 participants.
5 ECTS credits may be gained from participating in the hackathon for students in University of Helsinki and other universities.
Sponsorship of travel and accommodation
We are prepared to sponsor approximately 20 participants outside Helsinki, Finland with travel (inside Europe) and accommodation. The travel costs will be reimbursed based on the cheapest alternative. You can apply for the sponsorship by filling out the Hackathon registration form – please provide an estimate of the travel costs in the form. Please do not make any bookings before you have been informed whether your sponsorship application is approved. Note also that we anticipate that there will be more applications than what we can grant sponsorships for.
The sponsored accommodation will be located in the prize-winning and much appreciated Eurohostel near city centre by the sea. Accommodation will be in 2 person standard rooms (shared toilet and bathroom).
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