EIT Water Hackathon
23 – 25 October 2026
JA Startup Hambar, Sofia
Agenda (all times in EET)
FRIDAY 23 | 10 | 2026
17:00 – 17:30 Registration
17:30 – 18:00 Opening
Mariana Damova | Mozaika, Stavri Nikolov | Digital Spaces Living Lab
Greetings from:
18:00 – 18:10 Presentation: EIT Community Hub
18:10 – 18:20 Presentation: Marine Cluster Bulgaria
18:20 – 18:30 Presentation: BWA – Ivan Ivanov, President
18:30 – 18:40 Presentation: Meratch and Floodar – Tomas Zvolensky, Business Development
18:45 – 19:00 Break
19:00 – 19:30 Introduction of the hackathon jury and mentors
19:30 – 21:30 Team formation, idea discussion, working with mentors (onsite and online)
Cocktail
SATURDAY 24 | 10 | 2026
8:30 – 9:30 Mentor introductions and final team formation
9:30 – Breakfast
9:30 – 10:30 Team project work with mentors
10:30 – 11:30 Checkpoint: progress so far
11:30 – 13:30 Team project work
13:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:30 Checkpoint: career opportunities in the water sector
14:30 – 16:20 Team project work
16:20 – 17:00 Checkpoint: how to understand the real needs of stakeholders in the water industry
17:00 – 18:00 Team project work
18:00 – 19:00 Checkpoint: how to prepare a good pitch for your project
19:00 – 20:00 Dinner
20:00 – 21:30 Team project work
SUNDAY 25 | 10 | 2026
8:30 – 11:00 Team project work
9:30 – Breakfast
11:00 – 11:30 Checkpoint – progress so far
11:30 – 13:30 Team project work
13:30 – 14:00 Lunch
13:30 – 15:30 Team project work and final solution submission
15:30 – 16:00 Short break and group photo
16:00 – 18:30 Project pitching by teams to the jury and all
18:30 – 19:30 Winner selection by jury
19:30 – 20:00 Closing and awarding of prizes to winners
Get ready for the hackathon | PAST
Join our online hackathon preparation event
13th of October 2026 (Tuesday) from 18:00-19:30 CET
Link to join in: https://meet.google.com/phr-xaup-kgw
Agenda
18:00 – 18:15 Introduction to EIT Water Hackathon Sofia: Concept, Goals, Logistics, Exemplary Topics | Mariana Damova, CEO Mozaika
18:15 – 18:30 Adapt to a Climate of Extremes in Real Time | Tomáš Zvolenský, Senior Business Development Manager at GOSPACE LABS
18:30 – 18:45 Building and Validating Multi-Scale Multi-Sensor Solutions to Water Challenges from LLcloud | Stavri Nikolov, Director of Digital Spaces Living Lab and LLcloud Platform Lead
18:45 – 19:00 Flood forecasting and Simulation with ISME-HYDRO and Closing | Mariana Damova, CEO Mozaika
19:00 – 19:30 Match making session
Stay tuned and register for the event!
