EIT Jumpstarter 2026 awards at Unicorn Factory Lisboa, celebrating early-stage innovators across six categories.
🏆 Meet Europe’s next generation of innovators in Lisbon!
The EIT Jumpstarter 2026 Awards Ceremony brings together some of Europe’s most promising early-stage entrepreneurs, competing across six innovation categories that address pressing societal and industrial challenges.
Join us to discover the solutions that stood out for their excellence, market potential and impact, and celebrate the winners of this year’s programme.
What to expect
Awards Ceremony Meet the finalists and find out who wins in each of the six categories:
- Food & Agritech
- Healthcare
- Energy & Renewables
- Advanced & Green Manufacturing
- Metals, Minerals, Advanced Materials & Industrial Side Streams
- Smart Cities & Urban Mobility
Networking cocktail After the ceremony, stay for drinks and conversations with founders, investors, media and key players from Europe’s innovation ecosystem.
Who should join?
- Investors looking for early-stage, science-based startups
- Founders and innovators building their next venture
- Corporates, accelerators and ecosystem builders
- Media and anyone curious about what’s next in European innovation
📅 12 November 2026 🕠 18:00–21:00 (registration starts at 17:30) 📍 Unicorn Factory Lisboa, Lisbon ✨ Official side event of Web Summit
Be there to meet the innovators shaping what comes next.
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About EIT Jumpstarter EIT Jumpstarter is a pre-acceleration programme of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. It helps early-stage innovators turn science-based ideas into startups through training, mentoring and an international pitch competition. The programme is delivered by EIT Urban Mobility, EIT Food, EIT Health, EIT RawMaterials and InnoEnergy, together with Xjenza Malta.
