List of hackathons in Eindhoven, Netherlands in 2017

Original thinkers, concept developers, creative coders and designers from the Netherlands! Are you interested in innovative narrative forms for poetry and literature? VPRO Medialab invites you to sign up to participate in the Open Demos VPRO Hackathon - Literature & Poetry. You'll be challenged to come up with novel and creative ideas -- maybe 360 degree VR books, or poetry based literature games, or novel new digital forms for storytelling -- and present your prototype to each other and the jury.

Students and business people in and around Hasselt and the greater Brussels region! Are you interested in the use and application of open data? The Hogeschool PXL invites you to sign up to participate in an event to develop best practices for open data and a parallel hackathon. Datasets from a number of external parties, including City of Hasselt, City of Genk and Tourism Flanders will be available for the hackathon. You'll collaborate in teams to work with these datasets to develop new innovative services that will help cities, institutions and businesses serve their constituents.

Professional game designers, or interested gamers who would like to develop your own game! Kartfabrique invites you to participate in Hack the Game - Prison Island Hackathon. You'll be challenged to brainstorm to create an awesome 'grand finale' for the Prison Island game. Compete for terrific prizes. The winning team's concept will become part of the escape game from Prison Island and you'll be immortalized in a mural in Prison Island.