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For European entrepreneurship faculty

Lisbon · Rome · London · Summer 2027

Your students build a startup. You keep your summer.

Three weeks in Lisbon, Rome or London, worth 6 ECTS. EIA runs the days. You lead the academics from wherever you are.

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Preview the ECTS pack

  • Same price in all three cities
  • Lead from home or on site
  • 6 ECTS, the usual mapping
  • Students from 65+ countries
  • Erasmus+ covers about €700 per student
  • €10,000 grant when you bring 20 students

Locations

Three cities, one course

Same course, ECTS and price. Pick the dates, format and travel time that suit your students.

  • Colourful rooftops of Lisbon's old townPortugal

    Lisbon

    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

    Discuss a Lisbon cohort

  • The Colosseum in Rome on a summer afternoonItaly

    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

    Discuss a Rome cohort

  • Tower Bridge in London at duskUnited 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

    Discuss a London cohort

On siteOnlineEvery location runs three weeks, starts with an online pre-week, and costs the same.

Already in Europe

European universities already work with EIA.

Each city's course is co-organized with a local university, and partner schools send students every summer.

  • University of LisbonCo-organizes the Lisbon course
  • Università Campus Bio-Medico di RomaCo-organizes the Rome course
  • Bayes Business SchoolCo-organizes the London course
  • Sapienza University of RomeStudents join EIA teams
  • City St George's, University of LondonStudents join EIA teams
  • Nova School of Business and EconomicsPartner school
  • EPFL LausanneResearch partner
  • Your universitySummer 2027

Your students work in mixed teams with students from 65+ countries, many of them from the US, where faculty have brought cohorts since 2013.

Add your universityOr ask to talk to a European faculty lead.

Transatlantic network

Meet US faculty at EIA

Professors from Berkeley, Alabama and Carnegie Mellon bring their students every summer. Your cohort works next to theirs, and you can meet them for joint research, co-teaching or a student exchange.

  • It mimics the exact process an actual entrepreneur would go through.
    Ken SingerUC Berkeley
  • My students came home able to defend every decision they made. You can't manufacture that in a classroom.
    Dr. Harold WrightUniversity of Alabama
  • Real customers and a real deadline taught them judgment no case study can reach.
    Dr. Maher HakimCarnegie Mellon University

Ask for an introduction

€10K

AI Entrepreneurship Grant

Bring 20 students. Spend it on research time, a research assistant or AI tools.

See it in the calculator

Your summer

Choose how much of your summer you give

EIA staff run every day on site. You decide where you are while it happens.

  • No travel

    Lead from home

    0 days abroad

    Join a weekly online check-in, see your students' work in the shared workspace and grade at the end. Your holiday stays yours.

  • Short trip

    Fly in for pitch night

    2 to 3 days

    Watch your teams pitch to investors, meet the mentors and fly home.

  • Full summer

    Teach on site

    Up to 3 weeks

    Run a workshop, mentor teams and take a teaching slot in front of the whole cohort.

Plan your roleLondon needs only one week on site, so it is the easiest city to visit.

Research

Publish on your cohort

EIA runs a research programme on how students learn to found companies. Your cohort can be part of it, and the papers count at your home university.

The science of AI entrepreneurship, 2026–2030

5
studies under way
350
randomised teams a year
4
cities in the sample

Five studies with 350 randomised teams a year across Lisbon, London, Rome and Lausanne. Verified revenue is the outcome measure.

Research partners

  • EPFL Lausanne
  • UC Berkeley
  • University of Lisbon
  • Bayes Business School
  • Carnegie Mellon University

What you get

  • Add your own questions to the pre and post surveys
  • Anonymised cohort data, handled under GDPR
  • Co-authorship with the EIA research team
  • Help with your ethics application

Propose a research question

Published so far

  • Founding intent rose from 0% to 58% among students with no prior startup experience.

    Taggar, Domurath & Coviello, Academy of Management, 2019

  • Peer-driven learning raised entrepreneurial passion by 1.3 points on a 5-point scale.

    Taggar, Domurath & Coviello, 2024

  • Self-efficacy rose by 1.8 and resilience by 1.6 on a −3…+3 scale.

    Brandt, 2023

The course

Students learn by building a startup

Each team takes one idea to a tested product and pitches it to investors. No idea or business background is needed.

  • Build

    One venture per team

    Teams form in the online pre-week, so nobody needs to arrive with an idea.

  • Learn

    Daily mentoring

    From people who have shipped at NVIDIA, Google, Amazon and Visa.

  • Assess

    Graded, with ECTS

    Dated syllabus, workload hours and rubrics. You grade your students.

Students from 65+ countries, working in one room.

  • Students working in teams around tables with laptops
    Every table is a founding team.
  • A participant with a microphone asks a question from a packed audience
    Students question speakers from the floor.
  • Hundreds of students cheering as green balloons drop over the hall
    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
€2B
raised by alumni ventures

EIA alumni outcomes since 2012.

A speaker on stage in front of a large European Innovation Academy screen

Students who never planned to found anything

Most EIA students have never started a company. Among students with no startup experience, founding intent went from 0% to 58% (Taggar, Domurath and Coviello, 2019).

Talk through cohort design

Who teaches alongside you

EIA Faculty

Operators, founders and investors mentor the teams every day. You keep the grading.

Showing 8 of 51 mentors

Want mentors matched to your syllabus?

Tell us your course focus and we'll introduce the right mentors on the first call.

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Current EIA mentor pool. Each city's 2027 line-up is confirmed on a rolling basis.

Startups from EIA

Several of them European, all of them started by students.

  • 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 about your students, your funding and your approval timeline.

Early bird pricing holds until December 31, 2026.

Discuss a cohort

Funding

How students pay for it

Most European students have never paid tuition, and few will pay for a summer course themselves. Cohorts that work combine two or three of these.

  • Erasmus+ mobility

    about €700

    Short-term mobility support per student, toward travel and stay. Your international office applies.

  • Faculty and university budgets

    you decide

    Internationalisation, innovation and employability budgets often cover tuition for a credit-bearing course.

  • Company sponsors

    per seat or per team

    Local companies sponsor seats in exchange for a first look at the ventures. EIA gives you a sponsor pack to send.

  • EEA and Norway Grants, foundations

    from 20 students

    For cohorts of 20 or more, EIA's grants team helps you find the call and write the application.

One student, three sources

An example. Every cohort's mix is different, and EIA plans it with you on the first call.

Students who don't see themselves as founders

  • No startup idea needed. Teams form online before the course.
  • London is one week on site, which keeps travel and stay costs low.
  • Employers read it as teamwork, sales and product experience, not only as a startup.

Plan the funding with EIA

Europe

Built for European approval

What your faculty board and international office will ask about.

  • 6 ECTS

    Syllabus, rubrics and 8 to 10 contact hours a day, with outcomes mapped to the EU's EntreComp framework. Your faculty confirms the credit.

  • Fits Erasmus+ mobility

    An online pre-week, then on-site weeks. Your international office can fund travel and stay.

  • No visa inside the EU

    Portugal and Italy need nothing for EU citizens. The UK asks for an ETA, which we confirm per cohort.

  • Invoiced in euros

    One EUR invoice to the university, GDPR-compliant data handling, contract in English.

You lead. We run the course.

EIA brings

  • Curriculum, venue and daily delivery in each city
  • 50+ mentors and investors
  • Pitch night: $100K investment prizes across 3 programs
  • A funding plan and a sponsor pack for your cohort

Conditions applyPaid as an investment once your team graduates from EIA Ventures, incorporates and an outside investor matches it 1:1. Terms

You keep

  • Academic authority and grading
  • How the ECTS appear on transcripts
  • Your summer, at home or with us
  • The research you publish

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
6 ECTS (usual mapping)
Cohort
300 in Lisbon, 200 in Rome, 200 in London
Open to
Students of any degree, no startup idea needed
Travel
No visa inside the EU. UK needs an ETA
Your travel
Optional. Lead from home if you like
Prizes
$100K investment prizes across 3 programs
Billing
EUR invoice to the university
Faculty grant
€10,000 at 20 students

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

  1. First seats

    Closed

    €1,699

    Until September 30, 2026

  2. Early bird

    Open now

    €1,999

    Until December 31, 2026

  3. Regular

    €2,299

    Until April 30, 2027

  4. Final call

    €2,499

    Until June 15, 2027

Same price in Lisbon, Rome and London. Includes the full course, ECTS documentation and daily mentoring. Travel and stay are separate, and Erasmus+ usually helps with them.

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ROI calculator

What a cohort returns

Move the slider to your cohort size. Each extra student raises the return per euro.

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5-year return

20 students

Includes the €10,000 grant

20 students at €1,999 cost €39,980 and return €429,790 over five years.

Funding and partner value
€319,840
over 5 years
International applications
+18%
over 5 years
Ranking lift
+10 positions
employability factor
Media & brand value
€99,950
over 5 years
AI Entrepreneurship Grant
€10,000 to your programme
Paid to you as faculty lead.
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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 euro values and 1.2 for applications and ranking.
  • At 20 students, funding and partner value is 8 times the investment and media value is 2.5 times. Funding covers Erasmus+, sponsors, grants and company ties the cohort brings in.
  • At 20 students, international applications rise 18% and ranking 10 positions.
  • The €10,000 grant counts from 20 students.
  • The default €1,999 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.

Next steps

From first call to confirmed cohort

  1. 1

    You get in touch

    A partnerships lead replies within one business day.

  2. 2

    First call

    30 minutes on your students, budget and summer.

  3. 3

    Plan and quote

    Syllabus, funding plan, grant terms and a written quote.

  4. 4

    Internal review

    We answer your faculty board and international office directly.

  5. 5

    Agreement

    Contract signed, seats held.

European academic calendar

Plan around the deadlines

  • Prices rise on December 31, 2026 and April 30, 2027.
  • Erasmus+ mobility budgets are usually set in spring, so start in autumn 2026 for summer 2027.
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European faculty inquiries

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  • Calls in European business hours.
  • Funding plan included from the first call.
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Faculty questions

How many ECTS do students earn?

Usually 6 ECTS. Your faculty decides, and we send the syllabus, workload hours and rubrics it needs.

Do I have to spend my summer abroad?

No. EIA staff run the days on site. You can lead and grade from home, fly in for pitch night only, or teach on site. London needs only one week on site.

Our students have never paid tuition. Who pays?

Most cohorts mix sources. Erasmus+ short-term mobility usually gives about €700 per student toward travel and stay. The rest comes from faculty or internationalisation budgets, a company sponsor or a grant. From 20 students EIA helps you apply for EEA and Norway Grants and foundation funding.

How does the €10,000 grant work?

Bring 20 students and it is paid to you in euros, for research time, AI tools or a research assistant. You get the terms in writing first.

Can I publish research on my cohort?

Yes. You can add questions to EIA's pre and post surveys, use anonymised data under GDPR and co-author with the EIA research team.

My students are not very entrepreneurial. Is that a problem?

No. Most EIA students have never started anything. No idea is needed, teams form in the online pre-week, and in one study founding intent went from 0% to 58% among students with no startup experience.

Which city should we choose?

Lisbon is fully on site. Rome is two weeks on site, then one online. London is one week on site, then two online, so it costs students the least in travel and stay. Credit and price are the same.

What does it cost?

€1,999 to €2,499 per student, depending on when you book. Invoiced in euros to the university.

I'm a student. Can I attend?

Yes. Ask your professor to contact us, or email info@inacademy.eu.

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What your faculty board will approve

What your board and international office will review, in one place.

Course
Entrepreneurship summer course
Cities
Lisbon, Rome or London
Dates
July 12 – August 6, 2027
Credit
6 ECTS

Credit

  • 6 ECTS is the usual mapping. Your faculty decides.
  • 8 to 10 contact hours a day on site, plus an online pre-week.
  • Learning outcomes mapped to EntreComp.

Week by week

  • Pre-week: form teams online.
  • Week 1: customer interviews and an MVP.
  • Week 2: go to market.
  • Week 3: business model and investor pitch night.
  • Lisbon is fully on site. Rome is two weeks on site, then one online. London is one week on site, then two online.

Your role

  • You set standards and grade your students.
  • Lead from home, fly in for pitch night, or teach on site.
  • Add your research questions to the cohort surveys.

Funding

  • Erasmus+ short-term mobility, about €700 per student.
  • Faculty budgets and company sponsors, with a sponsor pack from EIA.
  • From 20 students, help with EEA and Norway Grants and foundations.

Timeline

  • Start in autumn 2026 for summer 2027.
  • Prices rise on December 31, 2026 and April 30, 2027.
  • €10,000 grant at 20 students, terms in writing.
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