As a CLARIN and DARIAH summer school, Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH25 is truly international, welcoming applications from all over Europe and beyond! This year they are prepared to sponsor a dozen or more participants from outside Finland with flights and accommodation (see Practicalities for details). Participation in #DHH25 is free to all accepted participants.

The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is a chance to experience an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. For researchers and students from computer science and data science, the hackathon gives the opportunity to test their abstract knowledge against complex real-life problems. For people from the humanities and social sciences, it shows what is possible to achieve with such collaboration.
 
For both, the hackathon gives the experience of intensely working with people from different backgrounds as part of an interdisciplinary team, as, during the hackathon, each group develops a digital humanities research project from start to finish. Working together, they formulate research questions with respect to particular data sets, develop and apply methods and tools to answer them, and present the work at the end of the hackathon.

This year, the hackathon groups are organised around the following four themes:

• Parliaments beyond borders: Exploring the Role of Foreign Nations in National Policy Debates
• Digital Presence in Physical Absence: Survivors' Testimonies and Holocaust Oral History
• Rare Earth & Web Discourses: Parallel Mining Approaches
• Economic bubbles, consumerism, and the colonies: Early modern newspapers as indicators of economic change in 18th century society

The application period has started (until 12.4.2025) – apply now and be part of this milestone event! 

5 ECTS credits may be gained from participating in the hackathon for students at the University of Helsinki and other universities.