Northwestern Europe Regional Contest 2025

NWERC 2025

Welcome to the website for the Northwestern Europe Regional Contest 2025. NWERC 2025 is organized by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and will take place from Friday, November 28 to Sunday, November 30, 2025.

The Northwestern Europe Regional Contest is a programming contest in which teams from universities all over the Northwestern part of Europe tackle a series of algorithmic problems. The goal of each team is to solve as many problems as possible within the five hour time limit. Teams submit their potential solutions to a judging system where they are then automatically evaluated. The teams that have solved the most problems by the end of the contest qualify for the ICPC World Finals and the ICPC Europe Championship.

Registration

The registration for NWERC 2025 is open and will close on Thursday, October 30. Registration is done through the ICPC system. We will select the accepted teams on Friday, October 31.

Team Admission Rules

The following rules will be adhered to when acceping teams:

• The maximum number of teams (140) will not be exceeded.
• An educational institution can only receive a (k+1)th team if every other institution that requested k teams has received them.
• If there are at least as many free slots as educational institutions requesting a (k+1)th team, then all those institutions get another team.
• The remaining slots are distributed round-robin between each subregional. In each round, a slot is assigned to the eligible (according to the rules above) institution from the subregional with the best performance:
  • For BAPC, NCPC, and UKIEPC, the performance of an institution is determined by the performance of their (k+1)th best performing team in the respective subregional.
  • For GCPC, the performance of an institution is determined by the performance of their best performing team in NWERC 2024.