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Lausanne · July 17 – August 4, 2028

Host: EPFL

Take the green pill.

The HealthTech edition. One week at EPFL, two online, with 200 students from medicine, engineering, life sciences, data and business. You take a health product to market with the EIA World HealthTech Model.

Wake up in Lausanne

Is it worth it? Do the math

Photos: EIA. Lausanne: Christian Mehlführer; EPFL: Mikado1201; both CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. CMS detector: CERN.
  • 200students
  • 3weeks, 1 at EPFL
  • BSc–PhDevery study stage
  • 100%health tech startups
No. 1Switzerland is the world's most innovative economyWIPO Global Innovation Index 2025, first every year since 2011 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

The experience

Plant an idea. Wake up with a health tech startup.

Three levels, 15 days, one team. One week at EPFL, then two online.

A student in a green EIA t-shirt tries a VR headset at the startup expoLevel 1

Jul 17–21 · EPFL

Find the clinical need

  • Start from a real problem in care
  • Map patients, clinicians and payers
  • Prototype the first version

Unlocked: 1 / 3

Demo day

I want in

HealthTech only

Built for people who want to fix health care

Every team mixes clinical, technical and business people. You need a field below and a reason to care, not a startup idea. You build it in Switzerland, home to some of the world's largest pharma and medtech companies.

Who it's for

  • Medicine, dentistry and nursing
  • Biomedical and other engineering
  • Life sciences, pharma and biotech
  • Computer and data science
  • Public health and health economics
  • Business, law and design

Every study stage

  • BScBachelor's students
  • MScMaster's students, incl. MD programmes
  • PhDDoctoral students and postdocs

What you cover

  1. 1Clinical need finding
  2. 2Design and user research with clinicians
  3. 3Regulatory strategy: Swissmedic, EU MDR, FDA
  4. 4Reimbursement and market access
  5. 5IP check
  6. 6AI and health data
  7. 7Pitch training

EIA World HealthTech Model

Test the market before you build it

The model simulates how a health product meets demand, regulation, buyers and cash. Teams use it to cut months of guessing down to days.

How the model works

  1. 1DemandWhich patients and clinicians need it, and how many
  2. 2ProductWhat is feasible to build and certify
  3. 3Go-to-marketHospitals, insurers or patients: who buys first
  4. 4BusinessCash, reimbursement timing and runway

Field trip · CERN, Geneva

From Lake Geneva to the Large Hadron Collider

One day of the EPFL week takes you to CERN, 40 minutes away by train. Physics built for the smallest particles now scans, treats and diagnoses patients. You find out how, then build on it.

Planned for week 1, to be confirmed with CERN

  • 27 kmLarge Hadron Collider ring
  • 40 minby train from Lausanne
  • 1 dayin week 1
  • 4medical technologies with CERN roots
CMSALICEATLASLHCb
EPFL, LausanneCERN, Geneva

40 min by train

Where particle physics became medicine

  • MedipixPixel detector chips from CERN, now used for colour X-ray and CT imaging.
  • Hadron therapyA CERN design study led to the CNAO and MedAustron cancer treatment centres.
  • CERN-MEDICISProduces rare radioisotopes for medical research.
  • PET scannersCERN detector work fed the early development of PET imaging.

The CERN challenge

  1. 1MorningTrain to Geneva and a visit to the CERN Science Gateway
  2. 2MiddayYour team picks one CERN-born technology
  3. 3AfternoonDesign a health product around it, test it in the World HealthTech Model
  4. 4EveningPitch it to your cohort, back in Lausanne by the lake

I want to go to CERN

Photo: the CMS detector at CERN

Your faculty

Swiss health tech faculty, plus the EIA mentor pool.

People from Swiss universities, hospitals and medtech companies teach the health tech side. EIA mentors from NVIDIA, Google and Amazon coach the startup side, on a tech stack from partners like NVIDIA.

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Swiss health tech faculty

Line-up announced in 2027. These are the seats we fill.

  • Regulatory affairsSwissmedic, EU MDR and FDA pathwaysTo be announced
  • Clinical validationClinicians from Swiss university hospitalsTo be announced
  • ReimbursementMarket access and Swiss health insurersTo be announced
  • MedTech engineeringEPFL labs and medtech companiesTo be announced
  • AI and health dataHealth data, privacy and AI in careTo be announced
  • Health tech investorsSwiss and European life-science fundsTo be announced

Showing 8 of 51 mentors

Current EIA mentor pool. The Swiss faculty line-up for 2028 is announced when applications open in 2027.

Next stop: Lausanne.

Strangers in. Co-founders out.

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Summer in Lausanne

Lausanne in July. 200 new friends.

  • Lake Geneva next to campus
  • Alps across the water
  • Sunset around 9:20 pm
  • One week at EPFL
  • A crowd of students cheering and clappingPitch night crowd
  • Map of Lausanne on the shore of Lake GenevaLausanne on Lake Geneva
  • A student leaps in the air on the stairsDay 1 energy
  • Hundreds of EIA students posing together in front of a green stageCohort 2025
  • “I received several job offers from Silicon Valley and German companies.”
    Bemi AdeosunDublin Institute of Technology
  • “EIA helped me approach people and build friendships.”
    Julia BeyerLund University
  • “A once in a lifetime experience that unleashes the entrepreneur within.”
    Laura LinakerMacEwan University

Your ROI

One ticket. Two futures.

Pick where you study. See what three weeks can be worth.

Where you study
Your stage

60%start a startup during the course

If you go corporate

+€228,000

salary lift over 5 years

114x return

If you chase the startup dream

€4,500,000

potential equity value over 5 years

2,251x return

Projections from 15,000+ EIA alumni since 2012. Alumni ventures have raised $2.2B and created 32,000+ jobs. Your results will vary.

Your ticketSeats limited

Health tech startup course, World HealthTech Model access, mentors, speakers and investors. Travel and stay not included.

  1. Early birdNow

    €1,999

    until December 31, 2027

  2. Regular

    €2,299

    until April 30, 2028

  3. Final call

    €2,499

    until June 15, 2028

Lock the early bird price

Early access

Your spot in Lausanne

Three details. You hear first when applications open in 2027, before anyone else.

446 days left at €1,999

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Where you'll be

EIA Campus at EPFL

One week on the EPFL campus in Lausanne, a few minutes' walk from Lake Geneva.

EPFL, LausanneEPFL, Rolex Learning CenterPlace Maurice-Cosandey1015 Lausanne, SwitzerlandGH99+82 Lausanne
Host
EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) (opens in a new tab)
Metro
M1, EPFL stop
Online
Weeks 2 and 3, July 24 to August 4
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