European Innovation Academy

European Innovation Academy Developed by the top Silicon Valley institutions the EIAs entrepreneurship program is the world's most advanced education program.

Discover your business idea, design a business model and develop a prototype to start up your company - all this within 15 days! Target group: students and young professionals, entrepreneurs

Porto, Rome and London programs are over. Nevertheless, lessons and experiences will stay with students forever, even wh...
30/08/2026

Porto, Rome and London programs are over. Nevertheless, lessons and experiences will stay with students forever, even when they start a job position in a company or in the moment they decide to invest in some new product or startup. Swap to know some data about this year editions of EIA and what students think about us, based on a 2026 participant feedback survey, with a total of 215 responses.

23/08/2026

Some moments deserve a replay. ▶️💚

The energy. The people. The ideas. The laughs. The chaos. The “wait… are we actually building this?”🚀

EIA London was more than what happened in the room, it was the people you met, the conversations in between, the unexpected moments, and the memories you took home with you.

So here’s your little rewind of week 1 🇬🇧✨

London founders, what moment instantly takes you back? 👇

At EIA, we truly believe that right partnerships make the difference. Thanks to Unicorn Factory Lisboa and Fundação Sant...
18/08/2026

At EIA, we truly believe that right partnerships make the difference. Thanks to Unicorn Factory Lisboa and Fundação Santander Portugal , a total of 3 teams from EIA Porto 2026 were awardaded with prizes that includes a final pitch and mentoring sessions, among other type of support. EIA also assigned 3 Conditional Investments, and we cannot forget the partnership with Turku Startup Hub. All of these prizes will help, for sure, the students in their startup projects, so they can build an entrepreneurship career and re-shape the future!

At EIA, we truly believe that right partnerships make the difference. Thanks to Unicorn Factory Lisboa and Fundação Sant...
14/08/2026

At EIA, we truly believe that right partnerships make the difference. Thanks to Unicorn Factory Lisboa and Fundação Santander Portugal , total of 3 teams from EIA Porto 2026 were awardaded with prizes that includes a final pitch and mentoring sessions, among other type of support. That will help, for sure, the students in their startup projects, so they can build an entrepreneurship career and re-shape the future!

EIA Porto 2026, that’s a wrap! 🇵🇹🚀Three weeks. Countless ideas. One incredible community. 💚From meeting as strangers to ...
09/08/2026

EIA Porto 2026, that’s a wrap! 🇵🇹🚀

Three weeks. Countless ideas. One incredible community. 💚

From meeting as strangers to building startups together, EIA Porto has been filled with big ideas, late nights, pivots, pitches, new friendships and plenty of moments we won’t be forgetting anytime soon.

On Friday, we brought it all together for the EIA Porto 2026 Grand Pitch, celebrating everything our participants have built and the journey it took to get there.

A huge congratulations to our Top 10 teams: Getbak, Ziva, Lusa, Solvo, Vizion, Innergrowthstudio, Suncheck, GRUZaiT, Seiva and Unicorporated! 👏🚀

And the celebrations didn’t stop with the Top 10! 🏆 We were incredibly grateful to see our partners recognise teams across EIA Porto with a range of additional awards and opportunities - from access to international finals and startup programmes to further funding opportunities. A huge thank you to all of our partners for continuing to support our founders beyond EIA and helping turn three weeks of innovation into opportunities that can take these startups even further. 🌍✨

To every participant, mentor, speaker, faculty member, partner and member of the EIA team who made these three weeks possible- thank you. The programme might be over, but for these startups, this is only the beginning.

Already missing EIA Porto? Because we are. 🥹

👇 What was your favourite memory from EIA Porto 2026? Tell us in the comments!

A morning to remember! Here are some photos from a morning full of meaning for EIA and its partners: the fifth edition o...
07/08/2026

A morning to remember! Here are some photos from a morning full of meaning for EIA and its partners: the fifth edition of our program in Porto is coming to an end, and there’s no doubt that all participants, partners, mentors, and university representatives are taking home many memories and lessons learned. beta-i Porto Digital Câmara Municipal do Porto Universidade do Porto Fundação Santander Portugal

Join us to witness the energy of the TOP 10 teams as they present their ventures, share their progress, and compete for ...
07/08/2026

Join us to witness the energy of the TOP 10 teams as they present their ventures, share their progress, and compete for the next step in their startup journey.

Before the pitches, we’ll also hear from innovation leaders shaping the future of corporate entrepreneurship:

🎤 Cláudia Machado, Group Innovation Director Grupo Brisa
🎤 Rui Coutinho, Chief Innovation Officer Mota-Engil Next
🎤 Manuel Andrade, Head of Open Innovation Galp
🎤 Nuno Schaller Gonçalves, Partner Deloitte Portugal
🎤 Moderated by Ricardo Marvão beta-i

And closing the program, Diogo Forte, CEO of European Innovation Academy, will lead the final thank you moment before the founders take the stage.

🗓 Friday, August 7
🕝 1:30 PM Portugal time
🎤 Pitch time: From 2:30-6:00 pm
📍 Live on YouTube

Come see what the next generation of founders has built.

Watch live and support the teams. Link 🔗 in our bio.

The EIA is in its final stretch, and we couldn’t help but highlight another important institutional partner: Unicorn Fac...
06/08/2026

The EIA is in its final stretch, and we couldn’t help but highlight another important institutional partner: Unicorn Factory Lisboa .
Mariana Mendes Ribeiro is the Strategic Growth Manager at Unicorn Factory Lisboa and shared some important insights with us about our academy, its contributions to the Portuguese entrepreneurship ecosystem, and the key takeaways our students should keep in mind.

Mariana highlights three major contributions of the EIA: “international talent,” “the strongest connection between universities, startups, corporations, and investors,” and our program as “a meeting point where these different stakeholders collaborate from the very beginning, accelerating the transfer of knowledge to the market.” Furthermore, EIA also helps “strengthen Lisbon’s and Portugal’s international standing as a hub for innovation.”

Our mentor believes that “the goal should not be merely to train entrepreneurs for a few weeks, but to create the conditions so that some of these projects choose Portugal to continue growing.”

For Mariana Mendes Ribeiro, “these initiatives show participants that entrepreneurship is a collaborative journey,” because “no one builds a startup alone: it is built through networks, mentors, partners, and communities.”

We want to officially congratulate the Top 5 Award Team Winners of EIA London 2026. 🚀Fanniceuticals, Mindofruba, Able, A...
06/08/2026

We want to officially congratulate the Top 5 Award Team Winners of EIA London 2026. 🚀

Fanniceuticals, Mindofruba, Able, Atlas, and Eddy, thank you for showing what can happen when bold ideas meet courage, collaboration, and action.

These teams spent 15 intense days building, launching, testing, and refining their ideas, turning early concepts into something real. They are not just creating startups; they are taking the first steps toward shaping the future.

A special congratulations to Atlas and Fanniceuticals, who were awarded $20K USD in conditional investment to continue developing their ventures. 👏

We invite our community to follow, support, and engage with these future founders as they keep building beyond the program.

We also want to thank all the mentors who guided, challenged, and inspired our participants throughout this journey. Your support helped bring clarity, confidence, and light to the next generation of founders.

And to every team who took part in EIA London 2026: keep going. What you built here matters, and this is only the beginning of something much bigger.

The journey does not end here; in many ways, it is just getting started. 💚

Join us for the closing afternoon of the European Innovation Academy Porto, where corporate innovation leaders, mentors,...
06/08/2026

Join us for the closing afternoon of the European Innovation Academy Porto, where corporate innovation leaders, mentors, partners and guests will meet the next generation of founders.

​The programme opens with a keynote and panel on Corporate Innovation in Practice, exploring how companies evaluate, test and scale new ideas, and what founders should understand when moving from prototype to real-world adoption.

​Guests will then attend the Grand Pitch, where the Top 10 EIA teams pitch on stage, followed by the EIA Demo Expo, where 300+ students across 70+ teams showcase the ventures and prototypes developed during the three-week programme. Don’t forget to go to our linktree page in bio to enroll.

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