Creative Weekend

The Creative Weekend is a one-of-a-kind creative marathon seeking for innovative proposals to novel challenges and topics in the field of entertainment. The event is similar to creative jams, game jams and hackathons, where the people collaborate during 48h to develop innovative projects. However, what makes the Creative Weekend special is our unique very broad “Entertainment” topics and the combination of participant profiles including diverse art and media disciplines, technology, education and health sectors, in an experience to coexist.

We invite all to create in the event, to form teams with other students, professionals or enthusiasts, enjoy free meals, and to run for a chance to win magnificent prizes

Such an event and collaboration aims to construct three strong pilars: “Innovate“, scouting the future, “All-for-One”, combining as many disciplines as possible, and “Fun and Serious” so it’s not only entertainment but has social impact.

Participants

Everyone is welcomed to participate! Professionals, students and enthusiasts from the Trøndelag area are invited to participate, including all students from Levanger Campus, including FSV, FSH and FLU.

Registration (single and team) is done through or main registration form. Team sizes are not restricted but “solo runs” are discouraged as the event seeks for collaboration. Online pre-inscriptions open from Jan 5th to Feb 5th and will be used to plan and prioritize space and supplies.

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Awards & Tracks: One Project, Multiple Ways to Win

At Creative Weekend 2026, we want to maximize your opportunities. Every single team participating in the event is automatically part of the Main Creative Weekend Competition.

The main topic of the event this year is Artificial Intelligence, having an oportunity to envision new frontiers!

All ideas and projects are allowed as long as they align with the challenge and pillars of the event. Best ideas will be awarded and creativity as well. Some suggestions for the project’s format can be artistic pieces, interactive experiences, short films and animations, educational content, games and board games, simulation, VR/AR/XR Experiences, or computer and mobile applications.

However, you can double your chances of winning by tailoring your project to one of our Partner Challenges (Nordic Bridge or NEON).

How it works:

The General Participant: Creates a project for the Main Track. Eligible for Main Awards.
The Research Participant: Creates a project for a Partner Challenge. Eligible for Partner Awards AND Main Awards.

🎁 Expect Nice Surpirses! The exact pool of prizes will be revealed during the Opening Ceremony. No cash prizes will be awarded, only gifts and gift cards, but the value of the rewards (and the career opportunities) will be substantial!

🏆 The Main Creative Weekend Awards

Open to EVERYONE (General entries + Partner Challenge entries)

All teams, regardless of their topic, are competing for our core prizes. The jury will be looking for the best use of Artificial Intelligence and Entertainment.

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1st Place:

Grand Prize Package

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2nd Place:

Runner Up Prize

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3rd Place:

Third Place Prize

⭐ Special Category Awards

In addition to the podium spots, we are awarding three special titles. All specialized track participants are highly encouraged to aim for these!

🎨“Best Artistic Design”🎨

Visuals & Ethical AI

Awarded to the most stunning visual experience.

We are looking for the Ethical Use of AI in art—using AI as a tool to enhance human creativity, rather than just generating random assets.

🎓“Fun-and-Serious”🎓

Impact

Awarded to the Best “Serious” Project.

This prize goes to the team that best demonstrates how entertainment can drive social impact (education, health, society).

🤝“All-for-One”🤝

Collaboration

Awarded to the most successful diverse team.

This prize is for the most diverse team that successfully combines different disciplines—mixing coders with artists, teachers with health professionals, or musicians with data scientists.

🏆 Research Track Awards

For EACH partner track (Nordic Bridge & NEON), the jury will award a dedicated podium of prizes. These are in addition to any Main Track awards you might win.

The first place on both tracks will be an “Incubation” Package including Mentorship, Funding Guidance and/or Career Opportunities (more details to be announced).

The Nordic Bridge Challenge

What is Nordic Bridge: Nordic Bridge is a EU project about creating platforms to increase collaboration between universities and society and industry across borders and disciplines, makint it more easily be able to share their problems and challenges with the universities. Especially collaboration where students in bachelor and master programs collaborate with companies, municipalities and NGOs for their thesis or other forms of collaboration. In Nordic bridge we are working with an idea where society and industry.

The hackathon challenge (Click to see more):

We are asking for creative ideas on how to make more collaboration in education and research!

How can society and industry see valuable potential in student collaborations?
How can a digital concept create more collaboration in research and education?

Deliverable: a demo/prototype/mvp – either a clickable, wireframe or video. Formats: can be code, user stories, or even just video and images. Some areas of interest to us:

- How can AI be used to make universities and society collaborate more?
- How can you make the concept user centric/user friendly?
- How can you make something students, society and industry users will love to use?
- We highly value Gamification. Projects that use game mechanics (quests, progression, rewards) to make the portal engaging will be favored.

This challenge is suitable for everyone that is creative and digitally competent. It is good if you are familiar with prototyping, Figma, webdesign, UI/UX and coding. But it is not a must. The most important thing is the concept and that you are able to present it in a clear and engaging way!

🥇 1st Place: “Incubation” Package + Gifts
🥈 2nd Place: High-Value Gifts.
🥉 3rd Place: Gifts.

The NEON Mental Health Challenge

Create Serious Games, Short Films, or Interactive Narratives regarding youth mental health.

- We want you to explore the value and impact of AI on our minds.
  - Positive: AI helping us communicate, fostering empathy or visualizing internal emotions.
  - Negative: Narratives exploring how AI cause anxiety and isolation. Ex: job issues, dead internet, deepfakes…
- Ideal for: Game Designers, Filmmakers, Scriptwriters, Psychology Students.

🥇 1st Place: “Incubation” Package + Gifts
🥈 2nd Place: High-Value Gifts.
🥉 3rd Place: Gifts.

📝 Important Notice for Bonus Tracks Participants

Because these tracks involve real-world innovation, participants must sign a specific IP & Collaboration agreement to be eligible for the Incubation/Research prizes.

Full terms and the scope of the mentorships will be explained at the Opening Ceremony.

Schedule

The event will greet all participants at the opening ceremony on February 6th at 17:30 providing a space for the participants to meet, share ideas and form teams during our announcements and games.

The Creative Weekend’s marathon starts on Feb 6th at 20:00 and finishes on Feb 8th at 20:00 . The inscriptions will be open until Feb 7th at 18:00.

The event will culminate announcing our winners at the peak of the Nord Open Week, featuring multiple prizes and categories that will soon be announced.

▶️Opening Ceremony		Friday Feb 6th at 17:30	Big Auditorium (Storsalen)
🎨 Creative Marathon	🏃 Start 🚀 Submissions	Friday Feb 6th at 20:00 Sunday Feb 8th at 20:00	Nordlåna Main Hall – Nord Students can stay 24/7! – Meals Included (According to availability)
🗣️Project pitching		Wednesday Feb 11th at 15:15	Blue Auditorium (Blåsalen)
🏆Awards Ceremony		Wednesday Feb 11th at 20:00	Stage at Rostadcenter

Jury

We are pleasured to introduce you to this year’s honorable jury:

Iván José Pérez Colado
Charlotte Simone Elverum Hunt
Adam Palmquist

The Nordic bridge will have a separate jury:

Umair Najeeb Mughal
Lars Andreas Myrvoll
Noel Mulkeen
Matias Hiltunen

The Neon project will have also a separate jury:

Helga Dis Isfold Sigurdardottir
Malle Vogelsang
Jone Trovåg

Accomodation

For accomodation, StudentiNord offers prices from 500 NOK per night for students and 600 NOK for non-students. More information at [Link], and at the direct booking [Link]