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Help beat Corona by Folding At Home
Coronavirus – What FoldingAtHome are doing and how you can help in simple termsBy Folding At Home (F@h) Visit their website to join this great initiative! Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics, including the...
Movies That Matter Ideation 2020 Cancelled due to Corona
MTM Ideation Session 2020 - Cancelled due to Corona. Conform to the Dutch government’s regulations regarding the Covid-19 outbreak, the Movies that Matter Festival 2020 has been cancelled. Therefore, our event has also been cancelled. We kindly direct you to the...
The Hague Hacks Festival 2019 Blog
The Hague Hacks Festival 2019: Rethinking Tech as a Medium for Peace What comes after Instagram, Microsoft, and Facebook? And what does The Hague have to do with it? Technology has gotten us far, very far. Further than the wildest dreams of the most visionary men and...
‘Set Free’ – The Hague Hague Festival 2019
Set Free: The Hague Hacks Festival 2019 Save the date! On Friday December 6th we will hold our third annual Hague Hacks Festival! Do you have your tickets yet? This year, we will focus on how tech can empower human rights and freedoms. We will look at rights and...
The Hague Innovators Challenge 2020
Apply Now for the Innovators Challenge 2020! DO YOU HAVE AN INNOVATIVE IDEA THAT SOLVES A GLOBAL CHALLENGE? JOIN THE HAGUE INNOVATORS CHALLENGE FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN A PRIZE BETWEEN € 2.500 AND € 25.000. The world is becoming more complex and societal issues are...
Movies That Matter 2019
Movies that Move you! The Hague Hacks, in partnership with Movies that Matter and Border Sessions, is excited to invite you to our Ideation Session on March 25th, at 15.30, at The Filmhuis in The Hague. Film is a powerful tool against social indiference. In the...
Annual Events

The Hague Hacks Festival
Our main ideation event of the year, where human rights meets the technology and other sectors to generate ideas and solution-concepts to human rights challenges.

Border Sessions
Dive into a specific topic or theme together with a diverse group of designers, hackers, students, entrepreneurs, artists, innovation managers, activists, citizens, and scientists, and build together towards a clear mission and goal.

Movies that Matter
Movies That Matter screen films that open eyes! Important activist films are viewed and discussed with the directors and actors to brainstorm new insights and projects that address the issues put forth in the movies.

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