From Idea to IT Project in Two Weeks: Highlights from the First GoIT Hackathon 2025

An administrative panel to support frontline communities, an app for sustainable housing, and startup concepts — GoIT Hackathon 2025 brought together 93 participants from various fields — from development to cybersecurity — into nine teams that, over two weeks, created practical IT solutions for the charitable organization InHarmony and their own startup projects.

The format gave students and graduates a chance to experience real-world conditions — with deadlines, team roles, and jury pitches — while partners got to see a new generation of IT professionals in action.

At the final Demo Day, teams presented nine solutions evaluated by experts in UI/UX, AI, product management, career consulting, and the non-profit sector. Among the jury were representatives from Grandia Solutions, AI HOUSE, Avrora Multimarket, and Neoversity. Their feedback confirmed that participants demonstrated a high level of technical and soft skills and showed readiness to tackle real challenges.

Four teams were recognized by the jury in the following categories:

• “Best Solution for InHarmony” — for developing a user-friendly administrative panel with autonomous website management.
• “Best Open-Topic Project” — for creating the charitable project ECO HOUSE, which helps build affordable and eco-friendly housing for those who lost their homes, and the TailsFinder online platform for quickly finding lost pets.
  
• “People’s Choice Award” — for deep engagement in the InHarmony challenge and a sincere, passionate project presentation.

The hackathon’s partners included IT University Neoversity, Avrora Multimarket, AI community AI HOUSE, IT company Grandia Solutions, and the InHarmony charity organization.

“We wanted to give participants not just a task, but an experience that mirrors real IT work. It’s a chance to see yourself not as a student, but as a specialist — someone responsible for a product and its value. The hackathon became a space to experiment, make mistakes, and find solutions together — that’s how real learning happens,” — the organizers noted.

Participants had diverse backgrounds — from those just starting their studies to professionals with over two years of commercial experience. Teams were formed to combine different skill levels and disciplines, creating an atmosphere close to real work conditions.

Each participant received a certificate, special learning offers from GoIT and Neoversity, and gifts from partner companies. The most active and initiative participants will have the opportunity to intern at Grandia Solutions.

GoIT Hackathon 2025 became the first event of this format for the GoIT student and alumni community. It was a space where education met business and social impact. GoIT plans to make the hackathon a regular initiative, allowing talented specialists to create real-world solutions during their studies and strengthen Ukraine’s IT ecosystem.