Join us to boost entrepreneurship and digital education in Europe!
Would you like to boost entrepreneurship and deep-tech education in Europe?
Submit your proposal to the EIT Digital Entrepreneurial Academy 2025 to develop and deploy with us education programmes and courses in deep-tech technologies with business development-oriented components.
EIT Digital is seeking to expand the current portfolio of two-week summer school programmes between July and mid-August 2025. The key ingredients for a strong and impactful summer school are:
- Topic: The proposal should align with one of the five strategic focus areas in the EIT Digital Strategic Innovation Agenda: Digital Tech, Digital Industry, Digital Cities, Digital Wellbeing, or Digital Finance.
- Location: An easily accessible European location to facilitate travel logistics.
- Focus on Entrepreneurship: Proposals should clearly define how they will emphasize entrepreneurship. This can be achieved in one or more of the following ways:
- (Preferred) Students engage with local TTOs, researchers and scientists to develop business concepts around patented innovations.
- Students are encouraged to submit preliminary business ideas before the programme begins. The best ideas are selected, and students are then grouped to collaboratively develop these concepts into viable ventures throughout the Summer School.
- Students engage with companies that can provide them with business concepts for development of innovative products and services.
- Experience: Proposals should demonstrate a solid track record in the venture creation process and provide evidence of the ability to effectively mentor and guide participants.
The work programme is guided by the EIT Digital Strategic Innovation Agenda 2022-2024, which identifies the five focus areas of our strategy: Digital Tech, Digital Industry, Digital Cities, Digital Wellbeing and Digital Finance.
Selected education programmes will be included in EIT Digital’s portfolio of Summer School programmes delivered in partnership with training providers from EIT Digital’s pan-European ecosystem of over 350 partners from research and academia, business and industry, investment, and the public sector.
Timeline
- Call for proposals opening date: 20 December 2024.
- Submission deadline: 20 February 2025 at 17:00 CET (hard deadline, no extension will be granted).
Submit your proposal
The Summer Schools encourages the submission of the education proposals by European training providers such as universities, business, education and research organisations. The proposals should present a two-week training programme for Master students and others who want to deep dive into emerging technologies, learn how to create new businesses using these technologies or upskill their careers. The programmes should be designed for a minimum capacity of 45 participants.
If your proposal is selected, EIT Digital will co-invest in your plan to jointly develop and deploy education programmes and courses focused on deep-tech technologies and including business development-oriented components. Accepted proposals should be ready to start in April 2025.
How to participate?
Please read the Entrepreneurial Academy 2025 document carefully.
Download the Entrepreneurial Academy 2025 Document
There will be an information session in January 2025. Stay tuned for information session announcements on our communication channels.
EIT Digital is a partnership organisation. This implies that organisations owning the selected proposals are expected to be or become Partners of EIT Digital.
- If your organisation is already a Partner of EIT Digital, please go directly to the EIT Digital Intranet page and its proposal submission system.
- Organisations that are not yet Partners are expected to submit their applications for partnership latest at the moment of proposal submission. Please see partnership models for more information about becoming an EIT Digital Partner and provide initial information via the questionnaire for new organisations. This will initiate the Partner application process and put you in contact with the relevant EIT Digital Node. You will receive a Partner ID required to register for access to the EIT Digital Intranet page and its proposal submission system.
Please contact the relevant Node if you need assistance or have further questions about EIT Digital in general and Entrepreneurial Academy 2025 in particular.
