📋 Tender Overview
Science & Business Acceleration Program is a program from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the Ukrainian startup fund that supports students, researchers and technological teams. It is focused on the development of high -intensive innovations with the potential of commercialization. Within six months, participants will be able to turn their ideas into full startups-with a business model, mentoring, preparation for sweat and access to investors.
Who can join
Science & Business Acceleration PrOgram 2025 - for teams that:
are working on developments in the areas of Medtech, Biotech, Agrotech, Greentech or Dual-US technologies-the industrial-defined Winwin strategy;
are in the stage of proof of concept (TRL 3-6);
have a minimum of two participants, one of whom is a student or a researcher;
have not yet attracted investments but have a technical base or MVP.
If you are a solo-founder, first find your team: Program focus focuses on collective work and development of business ballsLitur.
What the participants will receive
The program will last from June to November 2025 and will contain:
strategic mentoring from Ukrainian and international experts;
practical sessions in business modeling, market access, attracting funding;
Training training;
meetings with potential investors and partners;
Participation in Demo Day with finalists, experts and venture community.
In addition, the program finalists will receive 25,000 in the form of AWS cloud services.
This years partner is set uniVersity-Leading Ukrainian Technological University, as well as Berkeley Haas entrepreneurship-startup ecosystem at Haas School of Business (University of California, Berkeley).
Timeline programs
Acceptance of applications: April 25 - May 24 2025
Pitch Day (Team Selection): May 29
Program Start: June 2 2025
Demo Day: November 14 2025
Find out more and apply.
Participation in the program is free of charge.
Why is it important
Today digital transformation requires not only technologies but alsodeep scientific knowledge. Such projects - at the intersection of science, market and innovation - form the future of the digital economy. Do not leave ideas on shelves - join and scale!
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