Junction 2026

Who it is for

• Working on curious

Our take

Europe's biggest hackathon and the best place to meet builders who could join a health startup. Applications for 2026 closed on 6 September, so come to the demo expo or watch for health-related challenges next year.

In numbers

1,500+

participants, 2025 Source

111

nationalities, 2025 Source

291

projects built in 48 hours, 2025 Source

The story

First held in 2015

Junction started in 2015 as a student-run, non-profit hackathon in Helsinki and now runs its flagship 48-hour event in Espoo every November.

Who you'll meet

• Developers
• Designers
• Students
• Corporates
• Investors

Price

Free for accepted participants.

Tips

• Teams build for challenges set by partner companies, so look for health and medtech challenges.
• The demo expo at the end is the best moment to meet teams.

Prepare

• Get involved without founding a company

  You don't need your own startup to be part of health innovation: you can join events, volunteer, work at a startup or study the field, and each of these builds the knowledge and network you'd need later.

• What is health innovation?

  Health innovation means finding a better way to keep people healthy or to care for them, and it can be a product, a service, a new way of working, or a company built around one of these.

Same week

• 10 Nov 2026Women TechEU applicant info day, Workshop