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BWKI in a nutshell

BWKI stands for "Bundeswettbewerb für Künstliche Intelligenz" which is a national artificial intelligence competition for students. Teams of up to five students firstly submit an AI-idea with which they try to solve a current problem. Secondly the students work out the project and create a functional program, maybe a prototype and a video pitch. The most promising teams are invited to the award ceremony and present their idea online. A jury determines and awards prizes to the best projects.

More information on the student competition can be found here.

Students can connect with each other via our discord server.

Furthermore you can follow us on instagram or write us an email, if you have any questions: bwki@asai.ac.at

To further enhance the general understanding of artificial intelligence, a course was designed with the topic "Learn the fundamentals of AI". It is the perfect course to prepare the students for the BWKI and includes the origins of AI, how to develop the first AI project and to understand how AI can be used ethically in our society. The course can be found here.

The concept of BWKI was founded in Tübingen, Germany and you can visit their website here. In Austria BWKI is sponsered by the Bundesministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie (BMK).

BWKI 2024

The award ceremony of the third BWKI Austria, a state-wide Artificial Intelligence contest for high school students, was held on November 7th, 2024. The competition is supported by BMK (Bundesministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie). The top class jury was composed of experts in science, entrepreneurship, arts and culture, law, and sustainability.

 

Members of the jury at BWKI 2024:

Katja Bühler, Scientific Director at VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung Forschungs-GmbH,

Jeannette Gorzala, CEO & founder of from Act.AI.Now,

Stefanie Lindstaedt, Founding President of IT:U- Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria

Martina Mara, Professor at Johannes Kepler Universität Linz,

Daniel Klotz, Assistant Professor of Machine Learning in Earth Science at IT:U- Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria,

Gerfried Stocker, Director at Ars Electronica,

Bernhard Nessler,Research Manager Deep Learning & Certification at Software Competence Center Hagenberg,

and Bernhard Moser, Research Director at Software Competence Center Hagenberg

 

1st Place + Special Award AI for Green: Team NavigAI-tors from HTL Spengergasse

Congratulations to Mojmír Horváth, Hannah Fluch, Paul Wenth, Michael Steinmötzger, Richard Senger. They’ve won 1st place and the special award for AI for Green with their project to reduce CO₂ emissions in the shipping industry. Their AI optimizes routes to lower emissions, making logistics more sustainable and contributing to climate protection. This is an impressive step forward for the future of transportation. We’re celebrating this well-deserved win with you all.

2nd Place (tied): Team ProcessAeye from HTL-Perg and SicBert from HTL Hollabrunn

Congratulations to ProcessAeye and SicBert for securing shared 2nd place.

Team ProcessAeye, with Cedric Bauer and Stefan Czepl, impressed with an AI that restores damaged image areas in real-time, creating a new standard for camera and image applications.

Team SicBert featuring Florian Artlieb, Christoph Handschuh, and Leon Binder, developed a smart chatbot that searches through thousand-page manuals and helps resolving customer requests, while displaying the aggregated information and the reference pages in the manuals.

Both teams have showcased how AI can positively impact our world in so many ways. Congratulations on your inspiring projects and achievements in the finals.

 

3rd Place: Team Synth-UI from htl donaustadt

Congratulations to Julian Schmidt on taking 3rd place. Their project is changing the future of UI development by enabling users to create interfaces through voice input with no coding required. This is an incredible advancement for design enthusiasts. A well-deserved spot on the podium. We’re proud of you, Team Synth-UI.

BWKI 2023

The award ceremony of the second BWKI Austria 2023, a state-wide Artificial Intelligence contest for students, was held on November 10th, 2023. The top class jury was composed of experts in science, entrepreneurship, media and sustainability. Members of the jury: Dr. Bernhard Nessler, Dr. Robert Legenstein, Klemens Himpele, Dr. Isabel Claus and Dr. Daniel Klotz. The jury had a very hard time deciding on which of the finalist teams will get awarded.
At this point, we want to congratulate again to every single team that made it into the final!

The 4 winning teams of BWKI 2023 are:

1st Place

  • First place: Team GestIQus from HTL Spengergasse with Eren Erdem, Lukas Leeb, Maximilian Wolf
  • The winning team was rewarded with a prize money of 2.500€.
  • Project Description: Smart home devices - such as Alexa or Google Home - have become increasingly popular in recent popularity in recent years. Nevertheless, people who are mute or deaf-mute are often ignored by this development. The project aims to help this group into the world of homelabbing, as well as to bring AI models for finger speech recognition closer to the progress of speech recognition.
  • Watch the video pitch here

2nd Place

  • Second place: Team Sherlock from HTL Rennweg with Martin Bierbaumer, Maximilian Kniely, Nik Sauer, Luca Sautter
  • The team was rewarded with a prize money of 2.000€.
  • Project Description: IT security is currently becoming increasingly important and conventional firewalls can only detect attacks based on rules. However, this approach fails in the face of new, as yet unknown attacks, so-called "low radar attacks".  The AI protects against network attacks and recognizes anomalies that a firewall cannot detect.
  • Watch the video pitch here



3rd Place

  • Third place: Team Quantastic from HTL Spengergasse with Somya Rathee
  • Somya was awarded with a prize money of 1.500€.
  • Project Description: The project aims to optimize the supply chain using quantum machine learning and quantum computing. Through innovative applications of quantum computing, the predictions of back orders are improved and route planning is optimized. The practical significance of this project lies in cost reduction, increased customer satisfaction and the sustainability of the supply chain.
  • Watch the video pitch here

3rd Place

  • Third place: Team SIKE from HTL Spengergasse with Gabriel Gander, David Hirner, Florian Flatscher, Moritz Mitterdorfer
  • The team was awarded with a prize money of 1.500€.
  • Project Description: AI-supported, text-based business processes are described graphically using BPMN2 notation and can be deployed in seconds. Input (data queues, e-mail, form, API), processing (AI predictor and classifier, OCR, PDF, e-mail, interfaces to third-party systems) and output components are connected to form flows. These flows are monitored live and are expandable through our software development kit.
  • Watch the video pitch here

 

Furthermore, the school that collected the most points in the AI-course was awarded the title: "AI-School of the year". The award went to the HTL Rennweg in Vienna for the third year in a row!

We thank all students for participating and investing so much time into their AI projects.

BWKI 2022

The award ceremony of the second BWKI Austria 2022, a state-wide Artificial Intelligence contest for students, was held on November 11th, 2022. The top class jury was composed of experts in science, entrepreneurship, media and sustainability. Members of the jury: Dr. Bernhard Nessler, Clemens Wasner, Dr. Robert Legenstein, Dr. Jeanette Gorzala, Klemens Himpele, Dr. Isabel Claus and Dr. Daniel Klotz.

We congratulate the winning teams:

  • First place: Team OCR from HTL Spengergasse Wien with Alwin Schuster, Sascha Leber, Matthias Holzer and Constantin Winkler

  • Second place: Team Babyelefant from HTL Spengergasse Wien with Lukas Gäbler, Tobias Pressler and Moritz Patek

  • Third place: Team Vinitor from HTL Leonding with Anna Hartl and Sheila Hautzmayer

  • AI 4 Green Award: Team Deepknow - Trendoro with Lilia Gerber, Luis Kalckstein and Maximilian Busch

The winning team OCR was rewarded with a prize money of 2.500€. "We developed an OCR system that beats competing products from Apple, Google, and Amazon. For this we trained a CRNN architecture and wrote a dataset generator. For integration, we implemented our own API middleware," said Alwin J. Schuster, team leader of the OCR team. Furthermore, the school which collected the most points in the AI-course was awarded: HTL Rennweg in Vienna.

Thank you to all students for taking part and investing lots of time into their AI projects.

BWKI 2021

In 2021 ASAI organized the first state-wide Artificial Intelligence contest, called BWKI, for students. BWKI stands for "Bundeswettbewerb für Künstliche Intelligenz". The goal of this contest is to encourage young pupils to deepen their knowledge in the field of artificial intelligence.

The award ceremony of the BWKI 2021 was held on January 28th, 2022. The top class jury was composed of experts in science, entrepreneurship, media and sustainability.

We congratulate the winning teams:

  • First place: Team Rusted from Wiedner Gymnasium Wien - click here for their project video

  • Second place: Team WatchMan from HTL Wien West - click here for their project video

  • Third place: Team Private Voice Assistant from HTL Braunau - click here for their project video

The winning team “ Rusted”, with Jonas Kriegl, Ferdinand Pamberger and Elias Mutzl, was rewarded with a prize money of 2.500€. The three team members from Vienna worked on the optimization of transportation networks in regards to different ecological and efficiency goals. Furthermore, the school which collected the most points in the AI-course was awarded: HTL Rennweg in Vienna. Thank you to all students for taking part and investing quite some time in their AI projects.