UNIGE Faculty of MedicineFacMed Hack #1Digital Phenotyping of Mental Health
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Campus Biotech, Geneva · 6–7 November 2026

Digital Phenotyping of Mental Health

Clinicians, researchers and engineers build together for 32 hours — and leave with projects worth funding.

  • Dates6–7 November 2026
  • Format32 hours
  • Participants50 participants
  • Challenges6 challenges
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A clinician, an engineer and a researcher meeting around the same problem, their separate worlds visibly colliding into one.
UNIGE Faculty of MedicineNeuro @ Campus BiotechSynapsy — Centre for Neuroscience and Mental Health ResearchSwiss Center for Affective SciencesWyss Center for Bio and NeuroengineeringHôpitaux Universitaires de GenèveEPFLUNIGE Research & Grants OfficeSparkboard

From real needs to outstanding translational research

The hackathon is not an end in itself. It sits inside a path that starts with needs from the field and ends with funded projects. Here is where we are.

  1. 1Hack planningMay–August
  2. 2Needs libraryuntil end of Septemberwe are here
  3. 3Challenge shapingOctober
  4. 4Hackathon6–7 November
  5. 5Grant development3–9 months
  6. 6Submission
  7. 7Funding
  8. 8Research take-off

More about the hackathon →

Researchers and clinicians contributing short written needs to a shared board.

Help shape challenges by submitting needs

Have a mental-health research need? Submit it in two minutes and help shape the challenges for the hackathon.

A way to do X for population Y with outcome Z.

🏆 Submit a need

At least CHF 500 in vouchers for the strongest submissions — travel to the November hackathon, or AI and compute credits for a local winner.

Most original so farSee the standings →
  1. 1thibaut.chataing824
  2. 2wazaahhh364

11 needs submitted so far · target 100

How this hackathon will change how we shape research

The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva is launching its first interdisciplinary research hackathon on digital phenotyping of mental health at Campus Biotech. In a focused 32-hour format, clinicians, researchers, engineers and around 50 Master’s and PhD students form mixed teams, build early prototypes, and shape project outlines designed to become fundable research projects.

The bet is twofold: get more out of the research platforms the Faculty has already built, starting with the digital phenotyping infrastructure at Campus Biotech, and put people who rarely share a room — clinic, lab and code — on the same team.