We Haecksen will be at the 40th Chaos Communication Congress between 27th and 30th December 2026! Our assembly will once again feature our very own workshop room, which now needs you to fill our schedule!

Which kind of Model Citizen are you and what amazing ideas do you have for workshops? Send in your workshop proposals - we want to share knowledge, network together and have lots of fun.

The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, November 25th 2026 at 11:42 p.m. (Europe/Berlin).

We're looking forward to every topic you burn for!

Please note: We focus on workshops and interactive formats, not lectures. What you present with us will not be streamed or recorded. Furthermore, you need to already have a ticket for 40C3 in order to offer a workshop. Unfortunately, we cannot provide one for you.

What we want in our programme
Bring along what inspires you! We're especially looking forward to submissions regarding tech, hacking, making, science, arts, activism, inclusion and queerfeminism. For more participation and to lessen barriers we encourage workshops by and for newcomers.

This year we're featuring four different tracks. Following, you'll find a few inspirations what your workshop could be about:

Track 1: Diversity and Inclusion
All creatures are magical

• Diversity and variety of living beings and ways of being
• Strategies against discrimination
• Inclusion strategies
• Queerfeminism
• etc.

Track 2: Skill Sharing
Wizarding school (without transphobia)

• Technical and applied skills
• Software fiddling and hardware tinkering
• Upcycling
• Crafts and DIY
• etc.

Track 3: Community & Activism
Hex patriarchy!

• Engagement and Community Building
• Voluntary work vs. everyday stress
• Recruiting supporters for projects and activist campaigns
• Ways to fend off the right
• Climate justice
• etc.

Track 4: After Hours
Sipping potions 'round the cauldron

• Game jam
• Quiz
• Karaoke
• Open theme night
• Film night
• Improv theater
• etc.

What and whom we're looking for
We want to give beings, groups and topics a stage who get less room elsewhere. Thus, we prioritise submissions of FLINTA people and marginalised beings or groups (also in a group with other people).

The key is that the proposed topics are a good fit for us. Please mind the Haecksen principle: To the Haecksen homepage

Important points for the workshop submissions

• Should your workshop be limited to a specific group of people (e.g. FLINTA-only, queer-only or Haecksen-only), please note this in your submission. Consider carefully which groups you invite and why, and which groups you indirectly exclude. There's no need to justify anything, however we'd like to encourage you to think about it.
• Consider if any content warnings or age limits are necessary for your workshop, and enter these in the description.
• Should your workshop have any special requirements (e.g. required material, time slot, min./max. number of attendees), then please note these in the comment section as well.
• Workshops may be held in German or English. Please pick the language you as a workshop moderator feel the most comfortable with.

Contact info and what happens next
If you have any questions regarding the CfP or want to support us at the congress, just send us a mail. We love to hear from you at 40c3-workshops@haecksen.org

After the CfP deadline we will promptly revision all the submissions, clarify things where needed and get back to you by the start of December. If you're in, we'll need yet again your confirmation roughly in the middle of December. We're planning to release the workshop schedule about a week ahead of the beginning of the Congress.

Stay enchanting,
yours, Haecksen.

Submissions close on 2026-11-25 23:42 (CET), 2 weeks, 2 days from now.