Yes. European Innovation Academy is a non-profit educational institution founded in 2013 with Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University and Google. Surplus goes back into scholarships, research and the programme, not to shareholders. Registered provider details are available on request for your due-diligence file.

How does 6 ECTS convert?

The course carries 6 ECTS with a dated syllabus, published contact hours, four assessable learning outcomes and grading rubrics. Most US registrars treat that as roughly three semester credit hours, but the conversion is always their decision. The Faculty Pack contains everything a registrar or curriculum committee asks for.

How does the $10K grant work?

Bring a cohort of 20 or more students and your institution receives a $10,000 AI Entrepreneurship Grant, paid in USD with the terms set out in writing before you sign. Many faculty use it to lower the per-student price or fund travel scholarships. Scope by intake is confirmed on your fit call.

No. EIA faculty and 50+ mentors deliver the curriculum. You accompany your students, observe, and grade them against the rubrics with our assessment data. Many faculty run a pre-departure seminar or a reflection module afterwards, and some join sessions as guest experts — that is your choice.

What does it cost and what's included?

One per-student fee covers tuition, mentoring, workspace, materials, pitch night and the credit-bearing assessment. Accommodation and travel are quoted separately or arranged by your office. Fees are quoted and invoiced in USD, purchase orders are accepted, and the current tier deadline is shown above. Ask for a written quote on the fit call.

Can we speak to a US university that has done this?

Yes. We keep a reference list of US faculty and study-abroad offices who have brought cohorts, including public universities that went through full committee and procurement review. Tick 'reference' on the form or mention it on the fit call and we will introduce you to a peer institution.

Non-profit · since 2013

Learn entrepreneurship by building a company.

Fifteen days in Lisbon, Rome or London. A team you meet on day one. A pitch night with real money on the table.

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25,000+
alumni: 85+
countries: 215
universities in the alliance: $2.2B
raised by alumni ventures

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Why we exist

The goal

Entrepreneurs for Humanity. Building for the Planet.

Big companies often start with a student or a scientist. EIA gives them the room, the team and the push.

1,000,000+

Entrepreneurs nurtured to date

EIA Impact Report 2024

Three things we do

Education

No lectures. You build a company.

Mentors from NVIDIA, Google and Amazon coach you. Customers decide if it works.

Pre-weekFind co-foundersPitch ideas online and form a team.
Week 1BuildCustomer interviews, then a prototype in users' hands.
Week 2SellLive campaigns with a real budget.
Week 3PitchInvestors, a full hall and €100,000 in awards.

World record80+ ventures from a single cohort. EIA Lisbon, 2026.

Summer 2027

Same course, three cities. Pick one.

See Summer 2027

Research

Measured by research.

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

What changes in fifteen days

0% → 58%
founding intent among students with no prior startup experience: Taggar, Domurath & Coviello, Academy of Management, 2019; +1.8 / +1.6
self-efficacy and resilience on a −3…+3 scale: Brandt, 2023; +1.3
entrepreneurial passion on a 5-point scale through peer learning: Taggar, Domurath & Coviello, 2024

Teaching founders where AI fits changes the numbers.

With EPFL Lausanne, UC Berkeley, University of Lisbon, Bayes Business School, Carnegie Mellon University.

Join a study

Startups taught where AI fits, indexed to 100

With the training

Revenue
Capital needed

Without the training
With the training

Kim, working paper. 515 startups.

Startups taught where AI fits, indexed to 100
Measure	Without the training	With the training
Revenue	100	190
Capital needed	100	60.5

Innovation

The course ends. The companies keep going.

25,000 alumni in 85+ countries. Their companies include Wise, Bolt, The Farmer's Dog and GrabCAD.

$12B valuation

$7.6B valuation

$3B valuation

Acquired

$30M raised

40%
of alumni become founders: EIA Alumni Survey 2024; $2.2B
raised by alumni ventures: EIA Alumni Survey 2024; 32,000+
jobs created: EIA Alumni Survey 2024

EIA Ventures

EIA invests $10,000 to $20,000 in up to six teams per cohort.

€100,000 in awards at every pitch night.

How EIA Ventures works

Your way in

Who are you?

Pick your door, or write to us. You hear back within one business day.

I teach entrepreneurship
Bring a faculty-led cohort and keep the grade.
For universities or write to us
I do research
Run your study on 350 randomised teams a year.
Join a study or write to us
I want to study at EIA
Three weeks in Lisbon, Rome or London. Nothing to pay yet.
Summer 2027 or write to us
I'm a founder
EIA Ventures backs the teams that sell.
EIA Ventures or write to us

Two fields. One business day.

Then we looked up

There is no planet B.

From orbit, Europe's Sentinel satellites watch the heat, the air, the water and the soil change. None of it stops at a border.

So the job is bigger: do good for people and for the planet.

Where EIA founders work

ClimateCut emissions
AirBreathe cleaner
WaterSafe supply
FoodFeed everyone
HealthLonger lives
EnergyClean power

Since 2013

The torch has passed through thirteen cities.

The mission passes from cohort to cohort, like a torch. 25,000 carriers so far.

Photo credits

City photos: Wikimedia Commons contributors (CC BY / CC BY-SA), listed on the About page. The rest are EIA's own.

Founded with

Partners

Professors who bring their students

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