For universities in Asia-Pacific
Lisbon · Rome · London · Summer 2027
Three weeks in Europe your university can approve.
Students build a startup in Lisbon, Rome or London with peers from 65+ countries. EIA brings the business case, the credit paperwork, the travel file and a recruitment plan.
- Same price in all three cities
- University-funded, subsidised or student-paid
- Mapped to your credit system
- Students from 65+ countries
- Itemised budget for every student
- $10,000 grant when you bring 20 students
Locations
Three cities, one course
Same course, credit and price. Pick the dates and format that suit your students.
PortugalLisbon
July 19 – August 6, 2027
3 weeks on site
- On site
- On site: July 19 – August 6, 2027
- Online pre-week July 12–16, 2027
- 300 students · Co-organized with University of Lisbon
- Italy
Rome
July 19 – August 6, 2027
2 weeks on site, 1 online
- On site
- On site: July 19–30, 2027
- Online
- Online: August 2–6, 2027
- Online pre-week July 12–16, 2027
- 200 students · Co-organized with Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
- United Kingdom
London
July 12–30, 2027
1 week on site, 2 online
- On site
- On site: July 12–16, 2027
- Online
- Online: July 19–30, 2027
- Online pre-week July 5–9, 2027
- 200 students · Co-organized with Bayes Business School
The partnership
Six things your university needs before it signs
EIA prepares each one with you. Three are gates: if one is still open, nothing gets signed.
- 1
Institutional value
EIA provides
A business case, peer references and an approval plan.
Agreed with you
Champion, budget owner, objective and decision date.
- 2Gate
Academic fit
EIA provides
Syllabus, outcomes and assessment, mapped to your credit rules.
Agreed with you
Credit or a non-credit pathway, and dates that clear exams.
- 3Gate
Affordable participation
EIA provides
Itemised budget, cohort pricing, scholarships and terms.
Agreed with you
Net cost per student, who pays, and cohort size.
- 4Gate
Trusted delivery
EIA provides
A travel file: housing, emergency plan, insurance and visas.
Agreed with you
Provider and travel approvals signed off.
- 5
Student outcomes
EIA provides
Assessed venture work, learning evidence and a final report.
Agreed with you
Outcomes, assessment criteria and reporting.
- 6
A recruitment plan
EIA provides
Info sessions in your time zone, a campaign kit and tracking.
Agreed with you
Target cohort, owners, dates and minimum enrolment.
Success means paid student places, and a cohort that comes back the next year.
Who your students meet
A cohort inside a global one
Each city's course is co-organized with a local university. Students from 65+ countries take part, including US cohorts led by their own faculty.
- PortugalUniversity of LisbonCo-organizes the Lisbon course
- ItalyUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di RomaCo-organizes the Rome course
- United KingdomBayes Business SchoolCo-organizes the London course
- ChinaTsinghua UniversityPartner university
- United StatesUC BerkeleyOfficial summer programme since 2013
- United StatesCarnegie Mellon UniversityFaculty-led cohorts
- SwitzerlandEPFL LausanneResearch partner
- Your universitySummer 2027
Faculty-led cohorts
Faculty who come back every year
US professors have brought cohorts to EIA for more than ten years. Ask them how they got approval and how they recruit.
It mimics the exact process an actual entrepreneur would go through.
Ken SingerUC BerkeleyMy students came home able to defend every decision they made. You can't manufacture that in a classroom.
Dr. Harold WrightUniversity of AlabamaReal customers and a real deadline taught them judgment no case study can reach.
Dr. Maher HakimCarnegie Mellon University
$10K
AI Entrepreneurship Grant
Bring 20 students. Use it for research time, AI tools or student support.
ROI calculator
What a cohort returns
Move the slider to your cohort size. Each extra student raises the return per dollar.
Current fee. Change it if you have a quote.
12.7x
5-year return
20 students
Includes the $10,000 grant
20 students at $2,159 cost $43,180 and return $549,750 over five years.
- Revenue and partner value
- $431,800
- over 5 years
- International applications
- +20%
- over 5 years
- Ranking lift
- +10 positions
- employability factor
- Media & brand value
- $107,950
- over 5 years
- AI Entrepreneurship Grant
- $10,000 to your programme
- Paid to you as faculty lead.
EIA replies within one business day.
How this is calculated
Every coefficient, for your finance office.
- Investment is tuition times the number of students, whoever pays it.
- All figures are set at a 20-student cohort, then scaled by (ln n / ln 20) to the power 1.5 for dollar values and 1.2 for applications and ranking.
- At 20 students, revenue and partner value is 10 times the investment and media value is 2.5 times.
- At 20 students, international applications rise 20% and ranking 10 positions.
- The $10,000 grant counts from 20 students.
- The default $2,159 is the current fee. Get a written quote before budgeting.
- Based on EIA alumni and partner outcomes since 2012. Results vary.
Modeled projections, not a guarantee.
Partnership models
First, who pays?
The answer decides who approves and what counts as a finished deal. We agree it on the first call.
- Most support
University-funded cohort
- Who pays
- The university, for a whole cohort
- Who approves
- Budget owner, academic committee and travel office
- Done when
- Agreement signed and places paid by the university
The $10,000 grant applies from 20 students.
- Shared cost
Subsidised places
- Who pays
- The university covers part, students pay the rest
- Who approves
- Budget owner, academic committee and travel office
- Done when
- Subsidy confirmed and student deposits paid
Students know their net cost before they apply.
- Lightest approval
Student-funded referral
- Who pays
- Students, directly to EIA
- Who approves
- International office, for promotion and credit
- Done when
- Promotion agreed and students paid
A good first year before a funded cohort.
Academic fit
Credit, calendar and eligibility
These have to clear before anything else matters.
Credit
- Mapped to your credit system, often 3 to 6 credits. Your registrar decides.
- Syllabus, outcomes, workload and assessment in one pack.
- No credit possible? A certificate with a transcript note.
Calendar
- Three cities, dates between July 12 – August 6, 2027.
- London is one week on site, two online.
- We check your exam timetable first.
Learning outcomes
- 1Test a venture idea with real customer interviews.
- 2Evaluate a business model and its assumptions.
- 3Design an experiment and act on the result.
- 4Pitch a venture clearly.
Each outcome has a rubric. Your faculty signs off on grades.
What we ask first, by country
Japan
Spring exams can run into late July.
Travel: No Schengen visa. UK ETA.
South Korea
Summer session rules and credit transfer limits.
Travel: No Schengen visa. UK ETA.
Hong Kong
Summer timing, and whether it meets an overseas requirement.
Travel: No Schengen visa for HKSAR passports. UK ETA.
Mainland China
Group travel approval and visa lead times.
Travel: Schengen and UK visas. EIA sends invitation letters.
Australia
Mid-year break. Elective credit and OS-HELP.
Travel: No Schengen visa. UK ETA.
Malaysia
Credit transfer rules, and scholarship or sponsor funding.
Travel: No Schengen visa. UK ETA.
United Arab Emirates
Summer timing, sponsors and passport mix.
Travel: Emirati passports: no Schengen visa.
Israel
Semester B exams can run into July or August.
Travel: No Schengen visa. UK ETA.
Country notes shape our first questions. Your goals and budget decide the offer.
Trusted delivery
The file your travel office needs
Everything a provider review and travel approval asks for, sent before you sign.
Accommodation
Where students stay and who checks the rooms.
Emergency response
A plan per city, with contacts on call day and night.
Insurance
Who buys cover, what it includes, what EIA carries.
Accessibility
Support for disabilities or health needs, agreed early.
Visas
Invitation letters for students who need a visa.
Named contacts
A coordinator on each side, plus one per city.
Student outcomes
Students learn by building a startup
Each team takes one idea to a tested product and pitches it to investors. The work is assessed, and you get the evidence.
- Build
One venture per team
Mixed teams from several countries. No idea is needed to start.
- Learn
Daily mentoring
From people who have shipped at NVIDIA, Google, Amazon and Visa.
- Assess
Graded, with evidence
Rubrics, individual reflections and the team's venture work.
Students from 65+ countries, working in one room.
Every table is a founding team. 
Students question speakers from the floor. 
The whole cohort celebrates milestones together.
What alumni do next
- 40%
- of alumni become founders
- 64%
- of ventures started at EIA survive
- 44%
- credit EIA with a job or promotion
- $2.2B
- raised by alumni ventures
EIA alumni outcomes since 2012.
After the course, you receive
- Each team's assessed venture work and pitch
- Individual learning evidence for every student
- Mentor sessions and team make-up, per student
- A cohort report you can take to your committee
Europe's startup scene, from the inside
Students meet founders, investors and companies in Lisbon, Rome or London, and work every day in teams with students from 65+ countries.
Who teaches alongside you
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Operators, founders and investors mentor the teams every day. You keep the grading.
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Want mentors matched to your syllabus?
Tell us your course focus and we'll introduce the right mentors on the first call.
Current EIA mentor pool. Each city's 2027 line-up is confirmed on a rolling basis.
Startups from EIA
The network your students join.
WiseEIA 2013 · 2015 · 2016$12B valuation
BoltEIA 2012$7.6B valuation
The Farmer's Dog$3B valuation
GrabCADEIA 2014 · NiceAcquired
Scoro$30M raised
HydroSolidEIA 2025
HighstokeEIA 2020
BS-AIEIA 2018- Your students' startupSummer 2027
Ready to talk?
A 30-minute call on your objectives, who pays, and your approval steps.
Early bird pricing holds until December 31, 2026.
Recruitment
We recruit the cohort with you
A cohort only exists once students have paid. Both sides know who does what, and both see the numbers.
EIA does
- Online information sessions in your time zone
- Campaign material, alumni stories and a landing page
- The application form and student questions
- Weekly tracking from application to payment
Your university does
- Names a coordinator
- Promotes through your channels and classes
- Sets eligibility and runs nominations
- Confirms credit for the students who go
- Qualified applications60
- Nominations30
- Deposits22
- Paid places20
An example. We set your targets together and track cost and effort per enrolled student.
Example timeline for summer 2027
Nov 2026 to Jan 2027
Information sessions and campaign
Feb 2027
Applications close, nominations made
Mar 2027
Deposits paid
By Apr 30, 2027
Places paid at the regular price
Facts and fees
Course facts
Summer 2027, all three cities
- Cities
- Lisbon, Rome or London
- Dates
- July 12 – August 6, 2027, by city
- Length
- 3 weeks, plus an online pre-week
- Hours
- 8 to 10 a day on site
- Credit
- Mapped to your credit system, or a recognised non-credit pathway
- Cohort
- 300 in Lisbon, 200 in Rome, 200 in London
- Open to
- Students of any degree, no startup idea needed
- Visas
- Invitation letters and visa documents from EIA
- Billing
- USD or EUR invoice to the university or to students
- Faculty grant
- $10,000 at 20 students
- Support
- Named contacts and a written support plan per cohort
Conditions applyPaid as an investment once your team graduates from EIA Ventures, incorporates and an outside investor matches it 1:1. Terms
Tuition per studentSeats limited
First seats
Closed$1,835
Until September 30, 2026
Early bird
Open now$2,159
Until December 31, 2026
Regular
$2,483
Until April 30, 2027
Final call
$2,699
Until June 15, 2027
Same price in Lisbon, Rome and London. Includes the full course, credit documentation and daily mentoring. Invoiced in USD or EUR.
Next steps
From first call to paid places
- 1
Objective and champion
Your goal, champion, budget owner and decision date.
- 2
Academic approval
Credit or a non-credit pathway, and dates that fit.
- 3
Budget and funding
Net cost per student and who pays.
- 4
Travel approval
Provider review and travel sign-off.
- 5
Recruitment
Campaign, nominations, deposits, paid places.
Plan ahead
Dates that matter
- Prices rise on December 31, 2026 and April 30, 2027.
- Students who need a visa should apply at least three months before travel.
Asia-Pacific and Middle East inquiries
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- No obligation.
- Calls in your time zone.
- We start by agreeing who pays.
Questions from universities
Does the university have to pay?
No. Universities fund a cohort, subsidise part of each place, or refer students who pay themselves. We agree the model first, because it decides who approves and what counts as done.
Can students earn credit?
Yes, if your university approves it. We send the syllabus, learning outcomes, workload, assessment and transcript arrangements, and map them to your credit rules. Where credit is not possible, we agree a recognised non-credit pathway.
Our exams run into July. Can students still join?
Often, yes. London is one week on site and two online, and the three cities start on different dates. We check your exam timetable before anything is signed.
What does the whole trip cost a student?
Tuition is $2,159 to $2,699 depending on when you book. Flights, stay, meals and insurance are extra. You get an itemised budget per student, with confirmed and possible funding shown separately.
Do students need a visa?
Most passports from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Australia, Malaysia, the UAE and Israel need no Schengen visa, and the UK asks for an ETA. Students from mainland China need visas, and EIA sends invitation letters and supporting documents.
What does our travel office receive?
A provider and travel file: accommodation, emergency response, insurance responsibilities, accessibility, visa documents and named contacts in each city.
Who recruits the students?
We do it together. EIA runs online information sessions in your time zone and supplies the campaign material. Your coordinator handles nominations. Both sides track applications through to paid places.
How does the $10,000 grant work?
Bring 20 students and it is paid to the faculty lead, for research time, AI tools or student support. You get the terms in writing first.
I'm a student. Can I attend?
Yes. Ask your professor or international office to contact us, or email info@inacademy.eu.