EUROPEAN INNOVATION ACADEMY
International Startup & Innovation Bootcamp
JULY 20 - AUGUST 8, 2025 | Porto, Portugal
The most adventurous way to transform your idea into business in just 15 days.
- From idea to business in 15 days with real-world entrepreneurial skills
- Travel and learn simultaneously
- Test your business idea in a risk-free environment
- Face-to-face mentoring from a diverse array of industry leaders
- Global network for a lifetime
- Fast 3-step application
SPEAKERS & MENTORS
The list of mentors is constantly being updated. See the full list here.
Gideon Marks
Anchor Mentor | Google for Startups, Co-Founder |
Abigail Tavares
Performance Marketing Specialist | Adomatiq | ex-Meta Marketing Pro
Tanel Erm
Head of Microsoft Development Center Estonia
Zahra Tashakorinia
Senior Product Manager | Amazon Lab126
Gilles de Clerck
Founder & Growth Strategist | Ablaze
Eugenia Duaneva
Angel Investor | Ex-Meta
EVENT TIMELINE
Our accelerated mode of learning has proven to turn ideas into startups in just fifteen days
ONLINE PRE-WEEK
GETTING READY
Showcase Your Startup Idea to Become the New Unicorn
Say “Hi” To Your Co-participants by Using Online Tools
Check Other Ideas and Search for the Team Members
Set and Achieve Product Goals Using Objectives and Key Results
Multicultural Team Management
How To Succeed in EIA
WEEK 1 (JULY 20–25, 2025)
PRODUCT FEATURES, CUSTOMER VALIDATION & PROTOTYPING
Product Profiling & Objectives
Customer Persona Design
Feature Validation with Customers
UX/UI Design
Prototyping
WEEK 2 (JULY 28-AUGUST 1, 2025)
MARKET VALIDATION, MARKETING CAMPAIGN DESIGN & LAUNCH
Go-To-Market Plan
Marketing Funnels & ROI
User Acquisition & Lead Collection
Launching a Marketing Campaign
How To Demo Like A Boss
Startup Expo
WEEK 3 (AUGUST 4-8, 2025)
PITCING, IP & INVESTORS
Business Models for Global Scalability
Revenue Models for Profitability
IP: Protecting your Invention and Brand
Finance & Funding Strategies
Pitch Like a Rockstar
Early-Stage Investors from Silicon Valley and the EU
HOW TO APPLY?
1. Provide your background information by filling out this form.
2. Explain your motivation in a short video.
3. Get notified within 7 days of sending us your video.
4. If accepted to the program, you will receive the payment link to pay your tuition fee.
The program is open for:
- Anyone who is at least 18 years old
- Students of any major
- Early-stage entrepreneurs
- Young professionals
TUITION FEE FOR 2025 PROGRAM
We offer multiple payment options, such as credit or debit cards, bank transfers, and installments.
Super Early Bird
€1799
/ per participant includes:
Intensive training (8-10h per day)
Entitled to 6 ECTS
Daily mentoring sessions by Silicon Valley and other global experts
Access to the pool of mentors, speakers, VCs
Until 31 October 2024
Early Bird
€2149
/ per participant includes:
Intensive training (8-10h per day)
Entitled to 6 ECTS
Daily mentoring sessions by Silicon Valley and other global experts
Access to the pool of mentors, speakers, VCs
Until 28 February 2025
Regular
€2399
/ per participant includes:
Intensive training (8-10h per day)
Entitled to 6 ECTS
Daily mentoring sessions by Silicon Valley and other global experts
Access to the pool of mentors, speakers, VCs
Until 31 May 2025
Late Registration
€2499
/ per participant includes:
Intensive training (8-10h per day)
Entitled to 6 ECTS
Daily mentoring sessions by Silicon Valley and other global experts
Access to the pool of mentors, speakers, VCs
Until 30 June 2025
500
Participants
50
Nationalities
100
New Startups
75
Speakers and mentors
TESTIMONIALS
Ken Singer
UC Berkeley
A fantastic summer program for people who are exploring the possibility of starting their own company. The summer school mimics the exact process that an actual entrepreneur would go through. You learn really quickly what you are really good at and what are the things you need to work on. You cant read it in a book. Experiential learning in EIA summer classes allows you to make these decisions on your own so you start realizing it is not that easy.
Bemi Adeosun
Dublin Institute of Technology
Because of EIA summer program, I received several job offers from companies in Silicon Valley and Germany. So I’ve definitely come back home a lot more determined and driven as well as focus and clear minded on what I want to achieve in my career — but most of all I can say I met a lot of amazing people who I’m sure I’ll be friends with for the rest of my life.
Martin Omander
Google
In EIA the development of technology is a social thing. Magic happens when you put a diverse group into a room together to work on a common idea. In EIA the students are doing the same as accelerators try to do in 3-6 months and I am amazed of how much comes out and how many projects are actually working after such a short time. Impressive!
Ravi Belani
Alchemist Accelerator
EIA is destinctive on a couple of dimensions: first - it is truly experiential. The best way to learn entrepreneurship is to get out of the classroom and jump into immersive experience. And secondly the cultural experience during these tree weeks is also incredible. You are working with cross-cultural teams from different backgrounds that brng a diverse set of experiences - it can be really important from the business perspective, but more importantly its just a lot of fun!
Jesse Leimgruber
NeoReach
EIA mixes a elements like building a product, getting mentorship and hands-on advice that I have never seen done before. Hackathons end with langindpages, accelerators meet once a week and they can lose focus, but EIA packs everything from idea all the wat to customer aquisition into a 3 week intensive program and there are mentors walking you and guiding you through to ensure that you get it done in a right way, with industry standard tactics and really get your product off the ground.
Rick Rasmussen
UC Berkeley
The program provides an entrepreneurship school in a setting that doesnt depend on the lectures and text books. We build companies here and learn by doing. Everybody rolls up their sleeves and builds companies from scratch.
Julia Beyer
Lund University
EIA helped me improve my social skills, approach people, build friendships, find out quickly how the other person can help you move forward with your business idea.
Tomás Alexandre de Menezes Pereira
Instituto Superior Técnico
The program was easily one of the best experiences I've had. Being around so many focused and driven people got me excited right from the start and the opportunity to get feedback and to learn from people with incredible success stories has made me rethink my work method completely. I've made friends for life in only 3 weeks and I now know that I definitely want to start my own business.
Luke Kim
UC Berkeley
To me EIA represents a community of entrepreneurs that span across the globe. Entrepreneurs, investors, university partners, corporate partners - the full spectrum of what it takes to really push forward the ecosystem of the global startup community.
Laura Linaker
McEwan University
MacEwan University has enjoyed a partnership with the European Innovation Academy (EIA) since 2016. The EIA is an educational platform that provides students with a once in a life time educational experience. Our students have said that the experience is more than the amazing speakers, access to the best mentors and the focused entrepreneurial methodology taught. It is also what they learn about themselves through the immersion into a new culture, the intercultural team development and learning about failure and resilience. The experience for our students has unleashed the entrepreneur within for many and for others it provided a new lens to create value in the work they do.