STUDY ABROAD IN PORTUGAL

JULY 20 - AUGUST 8, 2025 | Porto, Portugal

Entrepreneurship and Start-up Summer Course

✅ Intensive 15-Day Summer Course:
Designed for university students seeking a transformative study abroad experience

✅ Hands-On Entrepreneurial Training:
50+ Mentors from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and more

✅ Cultural Immersion in Porto:
Discover Portugal’s stunning architecture, and rich traditions

✅ Earn Academic Credits:
Receive 6 ECTS credits upon completion

✅ Create Real Startups with Co-Students:
80+ new startups will be launched

✅ Global Network for Life:
400 Participants from 65+ nationalities

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SPEAKERS & MENTORS

The list of mentors is constantly being updated. See the full list here.

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Not your average study abroad program

EIA isn’t just a summer school—it’s an intensive, high-energy startup incubator where top university students from around the world come together to build real businesses. Over a few weeks, you’ll collaborate with international peers from 65+ nationalities, receive mentorship from industry leaders, and pitch your startup to a global network of investors.

With a track record of 40% of alumni becoming founders, a 64% startup survival rate, and 44% of alumni crediting EIA with helping them secure a job, earn a promotion, or ascend to leadership roles, this is your chance to turn ideas into reality.

Are you ready to launch?

EVENT TIMELINE

Our accelerated mode of learning has proven to turn ideas into startups in just fifteen days

ONLINE PRE-WEEK: GET READY TO BUILD & LAUNCH!

Show Off Your Idea – Start your journey to unicorn status.

Meet Your Team – Connect with future co-founders.

Find Your Match – Explore ideas & build your dream team.

July 14-19, 2025

ONLINE PRE-WEEK: GET READY TO BUILD & LAUNCH!

Show Off Your Idea – Start your journey to unicorn status.

Meet Your Team – Connect with future co-founders.

Find Your Match – Explore ideas & build your dream team.

July 14-19, 2025

WEEK 1: BUILD & VALIDATE YOUR PRODUCT

Know Your Customers – Design & validate personas.

Shape Your Product – Turn your idea into reality.

Master UX/UI – Create sleek, user-friendly designs.

Prototype Fast – Build and test your MVP.

JULY 20–25, 2025

WEEK 1: BUILD & VALIDATE YOUR PRODUCT

Know Your Customers – Design & validate personas.

Shape Your Product – Turn your idea into reality.

Master UX/UI – Create sleek, user-friendly designs.

Prototype Fast – Build and test your MVP.

JULY 20–25, 2025

WEEK 2: MARKET, LAUNCH & GROW

Go-To-Market Strategy – Plan your startup’s success.

Marketing That Works – Learn funnels, growth & ROI.

Real-Time Campaigns – Launch and test real campaigns.

Demo Like a Boss – Demo at our startup expo.

JULY 28-AUGUST 1, 2025

WEEK 2: MARKET, LAUNCH & GROW

Go-To-Market Strategy – Plan your startup’s success.

Marketing That Works – Learn funnels, growth & ROI.

Real-Time Campaigns – Launch and test real campaigns.

Demo Like a Boss – Demo at our startup expo.

JULY 28-AUGUST 1, 2025

WEEK 3: MASTER PITCHING & ATTRACT INVESTORS

Scale Fast – Build a winning business model.

Monetize Smart – Revenue strategies that work.

Protect Your Idea – IP essentials for startups.

Pitch Like a Pro – Master storytelling & persuasion.

Meet Investors – Get feedback & potential funding.

AUGUST 4-8, 2025

WEEK 3: MASTER PITCHING & ATTRACT INVESTORS

Scale Fast – Build a winning business model.

Monetize Smart – Revenue strategies that work.

Protect Your Idea – IP essentials for startups.

Pitch Like a Pro – Master storytelling & persuasion.

Meet Investors – Get feedback & potential funding.

AUGUST 4-8, 2025

HOW TO APPLY?

  • Fill Out the Form – Share your background details and motivation to join.
  • Get a Response – Receive admission results within 3 days.
  • Confirm Your Spot – Pay the participation fee upon acceptance.

WHO CAN APPLY?

  • University Students From All Majors! Gain global experience & entrepreneurial skills.
  • Aspiring Entrepreneurs – Turn your ideas into real startups.
  • Young Professionals & Founders – Build, grow, and scale your business with expert guidance.
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TUITION FEE

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
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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
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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.

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