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CAT-Tech Collab · hackathon for social enterprises
A hackathon pairing developers and students with social enterprises carrying real, unglamorous technical problems — and shipping prototypes against them.
Co-organizer Nov 2025 Linz
3
completed solutions
1
advisory output
4 weeks
sprint length
How selection worked
- Step 150applications
- Step 223selected students
- Step 39 · 7challenges · mentors
- Step 43completed solutions
How briefs were sourced
Every challenge came from an operating social enterprise with a problem they had not been able to resource internally. No invented scenarios.
What came out
Working prototypes handed back to the organisations that posed the brief, with the teams available for handover.
50 applications · 23 students · 3 completed solutions
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