AI-based tools for metrics in educations, STEM and social sciences. Registrations are open for the 1st Across Hackaton

📌 Location: INCESA, Craiova, Romania and on-line (hybrid event)
🕖 Time: June 4, 2025, 8:00 – 19:00 CET
🗓️ Registration period: May 16 – May 25, 2025
🔗 Registration link

Aim of the hackathlon:

In this hackathon, you will leverage the power of AI and Recommender Systems to develop smart, efficient and user-friendly tools for identify and classify relevant academic papers.

Who can participate?

Master’s and PhD students (R1) and postdoctoral researchers (R2), all from ACROSS member universities.

Maximum 15 teams:

To determine the final number of participating teams, a selection will be made to ensure that each university registering teams has at least one team in the competition, after that the principle of “first come, first served” will apply.

Each team of a maximum of 5 people: a minimum of 3 students per team, and one leader. Maximum 5 teams per ACROSS partner institution.

The rules

A team can only include members from a single ACROSS partner institution.
Programming Language: Python

AI frameworks: Tensorflow / Keras or PyTorch

Libraries: Scikit-Learn, Pandas, NumPy

Tools: Jupyter Notebook, Google Colab

No restriction regarding the libraries used for UI.

Prizes

1 st prize: One-week internship / research visit for the winning team at the University of Girona, Spain + 100 Euro Amazon voucher for each team member If the winner is from the University of Girona (Spain), then the University of Craiova (Romania) will host the winning team.

2 nd prize: 100 Euro Amazon voucher for each team member

3 rd prize: 50 Euro Amazon voucher for each team member
20 Euro Amazon voucher for the rest of the participants