EIT Innovation Awards 2025
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Celebrate Europe’s brightest innovators
Who are the changemakers transforming Europe’s future? Save the date for the EIT Innovation Awards 2025, celebrating Europe’s brightest innovators.
Innovation is Europe’s most renewable resource – yet still underused. Talent is everywhere, but opportunities are not always within reach. The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) changes this by linking ideas with impact, talent with markets and emerging regions with established hubs.
The EIT Innovation Awards 2025 showcase this mission with three flagship events coming together under one banner for the first time:
The EIT Awards: celebrating excellence across four categories:
- Most Promising EIT Changemaker: a leader whose activities create significant social impact.
- Best Innovation Team: a diverse group pioneering a transformative product or service.
- Most Promising Venture: a startup within the EIT Community showing strong growth potential.
- Public Award: the community’s favourite innovation, chosen by public vote.
The EIT Jumpstarter Grand Finale: after a seven-month pre-acceleration programme, early-stage innovators from moderate and emerging regions compete for prizes of up to EUR 10 000 across seven categories: raw materials, energy, urban mobility, food, health, New European Bauhaus and Rebuild Ukraine. Selection also takes place for EIT Jumpstarter Next, a track for alumni advancing validated ideas to market entry.
The EIT Red Kalyna Celebrations: recognising Ukrainian women entrepreneurs, educators, researchers and mentors who drive innovation and positive change, honouring groundbreaking products, solutions and businesses that embody resilience and determination.
Why it matters
Together, these initiatives reflect the full circle of European innovation: no region left behind, every innovator recognised, no good idea unsupported. By connecting countries, sectors and stages of development, the EIT acts as Europe’s bridge – from East to West, North to South, from the earliest pitch to global breakthrough.
See the programme here and save the date to discover the winners on 25 November!