EduDataHack: Innovating Learning Through Data
In an era defined by rapid technological advancement, data has emerged as a powerful catalyst for innovation across all sectors — including education. The ability to collect, analyse, and apply data in meaningful ways offers unprecedented opportunities to enhance how we teach and learn. The EduDataHack: Innovating Learning Through Data challenge invites participants to explore the transformative potential of data in educational environments.
By leveraging data-driven approaches, we can reimagine personalised learning experiences, empower educators with actionable insights, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. This hackathon aims to bring together creative minds — from educators and developers to data scientists and university students — to co-create impactful tools and solutions. Whether it’s designing adaptive learning platforms, building predictive models, or developing Interactive platforms to effectively integrate digital technologies into teaching practices, this challenge offers a collaborative space for rethinking education through the lens of innovation and evidence.
The onsite location to attend this blended event in person is: University of Cyprus, 1 University Avenue 2109, Aglantzia
Questions?
koukounidou.v@ucy.ac.cyPrizes
1st Prize €1500
2nd Prize €1000
3rd Prize €500
Sponsored by HFM
- Certificates to all participants and plaquetes for first 3 winners of the event by the Cyprus Computer Society (CCS).
- Technical mentorship services to the winning team by Artemis Industries
- Discount vouchers from the Jinius platform to the participants.
- DigiEduHack2025 certificates to all participants
- Global Awards 2025 candidates (Winning team-1st)
Who can join?
11 - 13 NOV 2025
Register by 09 NOVLanguage(s) of the hackathon
Greek, English
Online
from CyprusData-Driven Education
Challenge and goals
This hackathon aims to spark a data-driven shift in education — empowering learners and educators alike through innovation.
The challenge plans to foster innovation in digital education by inspiring participants to create data-driven tools and platforms that address pressing challenges of academia. Additionally, it aims to promote the use of data analytics to enable smarter, data-informed decisions for educational institutions and policymakers, improving digital strategy, access, and equity. Through cross-disciplinary collaboration between educators, data scientists, and university students, this hackathon aims to co-create innovative digital education solutions that are scalable, impactful, and future-ready.
Apps or platforms that recommend resources, adjust learning paths, identify learning gaps or students in need of additional support or offer feedback based on data.
Learning tools for enhancing the digital skills of educators that would support professional development and empower educators to effectively integrate digital technologies into their teaching practices and stay current with evolving educational trends.
Systems that forecast student performance or dropout risk, enabling early interventions.
Data visualisation or decision-support tools for educational institutions to improve curriculum design or resource allocation.
Any other innovative solution or tool the mind can imagine — because the future of education is only limited by the boundaries of our creativity.
Expectations and requirements for the solutions and participants
Participants will collaborate in teams to co-create innovative, data-driven solutions for real-world educational challenges. Ideas should focus on teaching efficiency, or institutional improvement, while respecting data privacy. Solutions should be based on effective use of data—collection, analysis, visualisation, or prediction—and be feasible, scalable, and ethical. Innovation and measurable impact on learning, engagement, or decision-making are key.
Evaluation: Participants should expect to be evaluated based on the criteria of quality, relevance, originality, feasibility, sustainability and transferability of the solutions
Pitch Readiness: By the end of the hackathon, teams should be prepared to present their ideas, concept, or demo in a clear and compelling way to a panel of judges.
Available Support
Platfform Watsonx AI (provided by IBM)
Through Watsonx AI, teams will gain access to a comprehensive platform for building and training custom AI models through both intuitive UI-based tools and flexible coding environments, supporting popular frameworks like Python, PyTorch, and TensorFlow. Teams can leverage pre-trained foundation models for tasks such as text generation, summarization, and classification, either through the visual interface or programmatically via APIs and SDKs. The platform enables fine-tuning of foundation models with enterprise data, prompt engineering capabilities, and seamless model deployment workflows for both technical and non-technical users
Schedule
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DAY 1 - Tuesday 11/11/2025 (8:00-18:00)
DAY 1
8:00-8:30 Registrations - Coffee & Networking 8:30-9:00 DigiEduHack Introduction - Goals and practical information Sylvia Koukounidou – DigiEduHack2025 National Ambassador 9:00 – 9:30 Kick off meeting -Welcome address Prof.Tatiani-Eleni Synodinou Vice Rector of Academic Affairs, University of Cyprus Stavros Tsiakkouris Senior Officer, Directorate of Digital Policy and Communications, Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Dr Anixi Antonakoudi General Manager of DiGiNN Cyprus |Technical Services and Support Unit 09:30-10.00 Team creation / Icebreaker 10:00-10:30 Coffee break 10:30 – 11:30 Mandatory Mentoring Session (for all teams) Introduction and inspiration 11:30 – 13:00 EduDataHack: Innovating Learning Through Data Start coding! 13:00 – 13:30 Lunch break 13:30-14:00 Touch point with your mentor 14:00-16:00 Keep coding 16:00-17:00 Touch point with your mentor 18:00 Break for the day -
DAY 2 – Wednesday 12/11/2025 (8:00-18:00)
DAY 2
8:00 Check in - Keep coding! 9:30 – 10:00 Coffee break 10:00-11:00 Touch point with your mentor 13:30 Lunch Break 15:00-16:00 Touch point with your mentor 17:30-18:00 Workshop – How to present my idea Evi Sereti, Certified Trainer - PwC 18:00 Break for the day -
DAY 3 – Thursday 13/11/2025 (9:00-14:00)
DAY 3
9:00 – 9:30 Final Proposal Submission Welcome – Housekeeping 9:30 - 12:00 Pitch your Idea to the Evaluation Committee! 13:00 Awards Ceremony
Mentors
Judges
Georgios Artopoulos
