Hacking Cognition 2026

PARIS

This year Hackathon will take place in Paris!

From June 22 to 26

A project-based school

Over the course of a week, you will develop a project in Cognitive Science together with a group of students from interdisciplinary backgrounds! Students come from Paris, Toulouse and Bordeaux, from Masters program in Cognitive Science centered around different specialties including neuroscience, psychology, ergonomics, engineering, AI, and more.

The hackathon can cover a large variety of themes (ethics, digital tools, legal, career prospects, research fellowships and grants, tech transfer, etc.). But no edition of HC has been the same. We strive to adapt to your needs and questions and our goal is to provide the knowledge and tools to allow you to explore project & career ideas (or at least give you some hints/first steps).

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Brainstorming

On the first day, students engage in different participative activities to come up with new project ideas and debate about them with their peers. At the end of the day, they will have decided the project they will work on during the week. You can come with your ideas but also generate new ones as a group! At the end of the brainstorming session, groups will be generated as a function of students’ preferences regarding the projects that emerge.

Project Management

Over the course of your respective programs, you learn how to manage your studies, your research, your project in general. We help you consolidate this with the concrete case of your project, and help you navigate project management inside and outside academia with project management experts.

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Open Science

Open-source, open-access, open-science in general. Today we hear these words all the time. Do you know what it means for research in Cognitive Science, and the consequences for its non-academic application? Why spend the extra time and resources? We will discuss open-science, its goal, ambition and ethical considerations.

Communication

You have practiced presenting articles or even your research with a presentation software to your teachers. But do you know how to pitch a project, or how to talk science to a non-scientific audience? We will talk about what communicating science actually means.

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Job prospects

You are doing a Master in Cognitive Science. Do you know what you will do next? What are the possibilities? We will talk about options and help you navigate the system.