EIT Digital Entrepreneurial Academy 2025

Submit your proposal to the EIT Digital Entrepreneurial Academy 2025 to develop and deploy with us education programmes and courses in deep-tech technologies with business development-oriented components.

EIT Digital is seeking to expand the current portfolio of two-week summer school programmes between July and mid-August 2025. The key ingredients for a strong and impactful summer school are:

• Topic: The proposal should align with one of the five strategic focus areas in the EIT Digital Strategic Innovation Agenda: Digital Tech, Digital Industry, Digital Cities, Digital Wellbeing, or Digital Finance.
• Location: An easily accessible European location to facilitate travel logistics.
• Focus on Entrepreneurship: Proposals should clearly define how they will emphasize entrepreneurship. This can be achieved in one or more of the following ways:  

1. (Preferred) Students engage with local TTOs, researchers and scientists to develop business concepts around patented innovations.
2. Students are encouraged to submit preliminary business ideas before the programme begins. The best ideas are selected, and students are then grouped to collaboratively develop these concepts into viable ventures throughout the Summer School.
3. Students engage with companies that can provide them with business concepts for development of innovative products and services.

• Experience: Proposals should demonstrate a solid track record in the venture creation process and provide evidence of the ability to effectively mentor and guide participants. 

The work programme is guided by the EIT Digital Strategic Innovation Agenda 2022-2024, which identifies the five focus areas of our strategy: Digital Tech, Digital Industry, Digital Cities, Digital Wellbeing and Digital Finance.

Selected education programmes will ​be included in EIT Digital’s portfolio of Summer School programmes delivered in partnership with training providers from EIT Digital’s pan-European ecosystem of over 350 partners from research and academia, business and industry, investment, and the public sector. 

More information here

Deadline: 20 February 2025 (17:00 CET)