Join the Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest (NCPC) and test your skills in competitive programming! Whether you’re looking to become the Nordic Champion or just want to have fun solving engaging problems, NCPC is the perfect platform for you.
NCPC is held on Saturday October 4th 2025 11:00-16:00 CEST (UTC+2) at the local sites listed below.
The contest uses the Kattis automatic judging system. If you’re new to Kattis, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with the system by trying it out before the contest. We suggest that you check out the problems from last year’s NCPC. For even more practice, visit https://open.kattis.com/ featuring thousands of problems of various difficulty.
Form a three-member team and get ready to take on the challenge!
Registration will open during the summer of 2025.
In short: Teams of up to three persons try to solve as many problems as possible, without external help.
The rules for this contest is given by the ICPC regional contest rules, with the following clarifications and additions:
The teams competing consist of up to three persons. The competition is open to everybody, as long as they are either a citizen of the NCPC countries or related to an entity (company or university) in the NCPC countries. Every team must compete for some NCPC country.
Teams consisting of university students, who are ICPC eligible, are encouraged to participate in the ICPC division. These may qualify for the regional finals (NWERC), and further to the ICPC World Finals. Basically, any student born in 2002 or later, or who started their university/college studies in 2021 or later is eligible to compete. For exceptions such as retaken years, military service and so on, please refer to the ICPC rules. Persons who have competed in five regional finals already, or two world finals, may not compete in the ICPC division, however there are some exceptions for the covid years.
The problem set consists of a number of problems (usually 8-12). The problem set will be in English, and given to the participating teams when the contest begins. For each of these problems, you are to write a program in any of the programming languages supported by the Kattis system (see here for a list). The jury guarantees that each problem is solvable in C++ and Java. No guarantees for other languages are given due to the large number of allowed languages, however the jury guarantees that for every language there is at least one problem solvable in that language (it has always been the case that several of the problems were solvable in all available languages, but there is no guarantee of this).
The submitted programs must read from standard input (stdin) and write to standard output (stdout), unless otherwise stated. After you have written a solution, you may submit it using the specified submission system.
The team that solves the most problems correctly wins. If two teams solve the same number of problems, the one with the lowest total time wins. If two top teams end up with the same number of problems solved and the same total time, then the team with the lowest time on a single problem is ranked higher. If two teams solve the same number of problems, with the same total time, and the same time on all problems, it is a draw. The time for a given problem is the time from the beginning of the contest to the time when the first correct solution was submitted, plus 20 minutes for each incorrect submission of that problem. The total time is the sum of the times for all solved problems, meaning you will not get extra time for a problem you never submit a correct solution to.
If you feel that a problem definition is ambiguous, you may submit a clarification request via the submission system. If the judges think there is no ambiguity, you will get a short answer stating this. Otherwise, the judges will write a clarification, that will be sent to all teams at all sites in the contest.
University | Site Director(s) | Status | |
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University of Copenhagen
Danish Technical University
ITU Copenhagen
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Monica Borup Duch
<mbd netcompany.com>
Klaus Skelbæk Madsen
<ksm jobindex.dk>
Sophia Saxil Engel
<sope netcompany.com>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇩🇰 |
Aarhus University
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Gerth Stølting Brodal
<gerth cs.au.dk>
Sheila Lærkegaard Johannesen
<sljo netcompany.com>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇩🇰 |
University of Southern Denmark - Sønderborg
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Krzysztof Sierszecki
<krzys mmmi.sdu.dk>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇪🇪 |
Tallinn University of Technology
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Ago Luberg
<ago.luberg taltech.ee>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇪🇪 |
University of Tartu
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Meelis Kull
<meelis.kull ut.ee>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇫🇮 |
Aalto University
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Jukka Suomela
<jukka.suomela aalto.fi>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇫🇮 |
University of Helsinki
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Antti Laaksonen
<ahslaaks cs.helsinki.fi>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇮🇸 |
University of Iceland
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Arnar Bjarni Arnarson
<keppnisforritun gmail.com>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇮🇸 |
University of Akureyri
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Arnar Bjarni Arnarson
<keppnisforritun gmail.com>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇱🇹 |
Vilnius University
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Vladas Tumasonis
<vladas.tumasonis mif.vu.lt>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇱🇹 |
VILNIUS TECH
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Artūras Mackūnas
<arturas.mackunas vilniustech.lt>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇱🇹 |
Kaunas University of Technology
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Mindaugas Vasiljevas
<mindaugas.vasiljevas ktu.lt>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇳🇴 |
NTNU Trondheim
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Theodor Beck
<karl.t.l.beck ntnu.no>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇳🇴 |
University of Bergen
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Brigt Håvardstun
<Brigt.Havardstun student.uib.no>
Torstein Strømme
<Torstein.Stromme uib.no>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇳🇴 |
University of Oslo
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Jonas Berger Nyvold
<jonasbny ifi.uio.no>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇳🇴 |
UiT - Narvik
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Ronny Stirling
<rst112 post.uit.no>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇳🇴 |
UiT - Tromsø
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Eindride Kjersheim
<eindride.kjersheim gmail.com>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇸🇪 |
Chalmers
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Victor Song
<songv chalmers.se>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇸🇪 |
Karlstad University
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Jonathan Vestin
<jonathan.vestin kau.se>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇸🇪 |
Jönköping University
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Rudy Matela
<rudy.matela ju.se>
|
✅ Confirmed |
🇸🇪 |
Linköpings universitet
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Morgan Nordberg
<ordf lithekod.se>
Astrid Lauenstein
<vordf lithekod.se>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇸🇪 |
Luleå Institute of Technology
|
Anton Johansson
<anton.johansson ludd.ltu.se>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇸🇪 |
Lund University
|
Måns Magnusson
<exoji2e gmail.com>
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✅ Confirmed |
🇸🇪 |
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Björn Martinsson
<bmart kth.se>
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Pending Confirmation |
🇸🇪 |
Umeå University
|
Tomas Forsman
<stric cs.umu.se>
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Pending Confirmation |
If your university is not listed - contact your computer science department or programming society, and ask if they would like to host a local site. It’s also usually possible to compete at a nearby university’s site. Interested in hosting a site? Have a look at the site page.
Last updated: 2025-03-08
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