Credit: STATEC
Luxembourg's national statistical institute STATEC has reported on the inaugural “STATEC Hackathon”, which took place from Monday 27 to Wednesday 29 October 2025, at the premises of STATEC in Belval and the GovTech Lab in Luxembourg City.
According to STATEC, the three-day event welcomed 53 participants divided into thirteen teams who took on an ambitious challenge: to turn data into action, going beyond raw numbers to visualise them through interactive dashboards that are accessible and useful to both citizens and decision-makers.
The economists, data scientists, developers, students and innovation enthusiasts in attendance explored, analysed and visualised data from STATEC’s LUSTAT database, Eurostat and the Open Data Portal. Their mission: to transform data into tangible solutions through innovative ideas and creative energy, pushing the boundaries of what is possible when creativity meets technology.
STATEC described the Hackathon as “not merely a technological competition; it was a genuine ideas laboratory”, with participants collaborating and innovating to convert figures into “meaningful narratives and tools that benefit society”.
“This hackathon demonstrates the power of data as a lever for innovation,” said Claude Lamboray, Head of the “Methods and Quality” unit within STATEC’s new Data Lab. “We have witnessed projects that bring statistics closer to citizens and inspire a new data culture in Luxembourg. This creative energy fully reflects STATEC’s new ambition: to let data speak in order to better understand and illuminate the country’s economic, social and environmental challenges.”
Four teams – Outliers (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology), the GNUs (STATEC / STATEC Research), LNDS (Luxembourg National Data Service) and Artemis – were recognised at the event for their relevance, use of data sources, innovation, reproducibility, robustness and ability to turn numbers into genuine economic stories.
