🇩🇰 Danish, 19 October 2026, cybersecurity-competition
Denmark Seventh in European Cybersecurity Championship 2026
The Danish team finished seventh in the European Cybersecurity Championship 2026, held in Bochum, Germany.
The championship was won by the Swedish team, with Finland taking silver and Austria bronze. The Danish team was eliminated by Norway in the competition. The team has consistently been among the top teams in the championship in recent years, having won the title in 2022 and finishing second in 2025.
The competition involves 400 young IT talents from across Europe working together to solve challenges over a period of 12 hours. The Danish team was selected through an online qualification among 1,000 cyber talents. The team’s coach, Jens Myrup Pedersen, is a professor of cybersecurity at Aarhus University and expressed satisfaction with the team’s performance.