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About EDUVENTURE

A two-year EIT Higher Education Initiative project that helps universities turn STEM knowledge into products, services and companies, and gives founders a clear route to do it.

Why it exists

Europe needs more of its research to reach the market.

Many STEM students and researchers have strong ideas but no clear route to test them, protect them or build a team around them. EDUVENTURE closes that gap, and brings this capacity to regions where innovation ecosystems are still growing.

Our vision

We want universities to act as entrepreneurial anchors of their regions, as places where STEM knowledge routinely becomes products, services and new companies. EDUVENTURE aims to show a pathway that others can repeat: from curriculum, skills and institutional mechanisms to technology transfer and venture creation.

Three steps turn a self-assessment into new mechanisms.

Learning, challenges and venture support run as one connected route, and a shared digital evidence system tracks progress.

  1. 1

    HEInnovate

    Each partner university runs a HEInnovate self-assessment of its entrepreneurial capacity.

  2. 2

    Institutional Vision & Action Plan

    The results feed a plan that sets out which mechanisms to build.

  3. 3

    Mechanisms

    New courses, support offices and digital tools that help ideas move faster.

Learning tracks

Alongside the Accelerator Program, the project plans five assessed learning tracks, each with at least ten learning hours. They open from 2027, and the list shows whom each track is for.

  1. A1 STEM Innovation & Entrepreneurship Foundations Students
  2. A2 Research-to-Market & IP for STEM Researchers Academic staff and researchers
  3. A3 Innovation Support Offices & TTO/KTO Upskilling Professional staff
  4. A4 Industry Challenge Sprints Mixed teams, mainly students and researchers
  5. A5 International Market Entry & Global Entrepreneurship Clinics Advanced teams and the staff who support them

The project commits to three targets by 2028.

  • 4,000people completing assessed innovation and entrepreneurship training
  • 6start-ups and scale-ups supported for at least two months
  • 4new start-ups established from project results

Targets as committed in the project proposal.

Open to everyone

Diversity, inclusion and gender equality run through every part of EDUVENTURE, from how we reach people to how we select teams and who they learn from. The application form lets you ask for subtitles, screen-reader friendly materials or extra time for exams.

Funding

EDUVENTURE is a project of the EIT Higher Education Initiative (EIT HEI), which helps universities across Europe build innovation and entrepreneurship capacity. It is funded by the European Union.

EIT Culture & Creativity is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.

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