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Tender description :
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Tenders Are Invited for Eit Jumpstarter – Call for Participants 2026
The EIT Jumpstarter (here and after referred also as the Programme) is an award-winning pre-acceleration
programme funded by the European Union. The programme is designed to help scientists, researchers,
innovators, Master’s or PhD students, citizens or idea holders validate their innovative ideas and develop
business skills to create and run their startups. The programme, powered by the EIT Community RII Cluster
(more details in Annex 5), focuses on talents coming from the countries located in Central, Eastern and
Southern Europe, where the overall pace of innovation is moderate or emerging1 and which are, for the most
part, eligible for the EIT Regional Innovation Scheme (list of eligible geographies below and in Annex 1). Very
often, they have the necessary scientific background and research experience, but they lack business skills or
have never validated their idea on the market. During the seven-month-long programme, the participants are
equipped with an essential business skill set that is a must for future entrepreneurs, including business
modelling and validation of the market need. They also gain best-in-class networking and understand how to
turn their innovation from an idea to a marketable product or service and make a potential impact in their
respective industry. The EIT Community carefully selects the best candidates to enable quality peer-to-peer
learning. The most promising teams are awarded with financial prizes of up to EUR 10,000 to support their further development (details regarding funding terms in point 3).
EU Member States: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain;
• EU Outermost Regions: Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Réunion, Martinique, Mayotte and SaintMartin (France), the Azores and Madeira (Portugal), and the Canary Islands (Spain);
• Horizon Europe Associated Countries and territories: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina,
*Kosovo2
, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine, Türkiye.
The call for applications opens on March 13th 2026 and closes on May 8th 2026 at 23:59 CEST
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