One Year After Startup Weekend: What We Built, What We Learned, and What Comes Next
What a Techstars Startup Weekend actually looks like inside those 54 hours, and how we went from weekend prototype to completing the EIT Grand Finals few months later
EIT Jumpstarter 2025: Interview By BAU Accelerator
Ahead of the official opening of applications for this year, we spoke with Elena Petkovska, founder of the startup Omnilyst, to reach the finals of last year’s program and present its startup in Budapest.
Beyond Celebration: Read These Stories of European Women - It’s Time We Start Recognising Impact, Not Just the Buzzwords
On November 29th, we met in person at the EIT Manufacturing RIS Hubs Conference in Budapest, after completing the 2024 Women Innovators Training Program under the EIT Regional Innovation Scheme
What a Week-Long Facilitation Training in the Netherlands Taught Me About Leading International Teams
On a week in Ommen learning facilitation by doing it daily, researching Amsterdam's housing crisis as a case study, and discovering why leading workshops for people from eight countries teaches more than any methodology textbook ever could
What International Debates Taught Me About Working Across Borders
On multiple days of structured discussion with participants from seventy countries, the assumptions that collapse when context disappears, and why distributed teams require a different kind of communication entirely
What Building an International Youth Platform Taught Me About NGOs
On creating Not Too Young with teams from Slovakia, Germany, and Greece, what coordinating across borders actually requires, and why clarity about mission matters more than enthusiasm ever will.