Student entrepreneurship and incubators
EIT Urban Mobility offers support to students to access resources like incubators, mentoring, and funding opportunities through different programmes and initiatives.
Student Entrepreneur Grant Scheme 2023-2025
The Student Entrepreneur Grant Scheme is a new programme initiated by EIT Urban Mobility exclusively to support students and recent graduates from the EIT Urban Mobility Master School and the Doctoral Training Network in developing their innovative projects and ideas. This programme aims to empower students by providing them with the necessary financial resources to bring their ideas to life. We believe that by offering small financial grants, we can help students overcome the initial barriers they face when turning their ideas into reality, fostering an environment that supports innovation and entrepreneurship.
Key features
Financial support
The Student Entrepreneur Grant Scheme offers financial grants to enable students and recent graduates to develop their projects and ideas into new startup ventures. If successful, this support could lead to their startup being eligible for other programmes offered by EIT Urban Mobility.
Eligibility
The grants are exclusively available to students who are currently enroled in, or have recently graduated from, any of the EIT-Labelled programmes offered by EIT Urban Mobility.
Grant amount
The maximum grant available per project/idea is €6,000, subject to the conditions outlined in the Call Manual.
Funding allocation
The Student Entrepreneur Grant Scheme has a total available fund of approximately €30,000 per year.
The call is a long-term open call with multiple cut-off dates.
The next cut-off date for the submission of applications is 15 January 2025.
Learn more about the programme and access the Call Manual through our Open call for applications to the Student Entrepreneur Grant Scheme. For any queries, reach out to academy@eiturbanmobility.eu
Start for Future: Student Incubator
Start For Future is one of the largest pan-European networks for entrepreneurship and innovation. It brings together 35 universities, 25 incubators, 250 research groups and 2 EIT KICs (EIT Urban Mobility, and EIT Manufacturing). It supports around 850 startups annually and has access to a pool of over 650.000 students and 15.000 academics and researchers collaborating with established companies, industry representatives, investors and business angels.
Since 2023, Start for Future has taken the form of a European Cooperative, with EIT Urban Mobility being one of its founding member and shareholder.
Learn: Dive into hands-on entrepreneurship seminars offered by partner universities in fields like urban mobility, manufacturing, health, and sustainability. Form teams, develop ideas, and get ready for the next stage!
Match and start: Take your concept further with expert mentorship! Over eight weeks, you’ll collaborate with international talent and EIT mentors to shape your startup into an incubation-ready business.
Develop and co-create: Join an incubation program with one of our partners, access regional ecosystems, and collaborate with co-creation partners to bring your business to life.
EIT Urban Mobility alumni are eligible to apply for Start for Future. For any queries reach out to antoine.berwart@eiturbanmobility.eu
