Welcome!

Welcome to the website of the Southwestern European Regional Programming Contest (SWERC) 2009, to be held on October 31st and November 1st. SWERC 2009 will be hosted by the Computer Science School of the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).

SWERC is integrated in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. It draws students from colleges and universities throughout France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and western Austria. The winning team will advance to the ACM Programming Contest World Finals, where it will compete with students selected in other regional contests, from all the continents.

For the first time, the regions of Germany that traditionally were integrated in SWERC have unified with the rest of Germany in NWERC.

Past SWERC Editions

1997 1998	Ulm (Germany)
1999 2000	Valladolid (Spain)
2001 2002	Porto (Portugal)
2003 2004 2005	Paris (France)
2006 2007	Lisbon (Portugal)
2008	Nüremberg (Germany)

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

The contest is a two-tiered competition among teams of students representing institutions of higher education. Teams first compete in regional contests held around the world from September to November each year. The winning team from each regional contest qualifies to advance to the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, typically held the following February to mid-April. Additional high-ranking teams may be invited to the World Finals as wild card teams.