Join the European Young Innovators Festival in Graz!
The European Young Innovators Festival will return to Graz on 26-28 November 2025.
Connect with the purpose-driven WSA community innovating the European digital landscape.
Create new and meaningful solutions in our workshops, talks, and interactive sessions.
Collab on projects that have a positive impact on communities across the globe.
For the last last ten years, the EYI festival has fostered meaningful exchange, encouraged peer-to-peer and intergenerational learning, and celebrated cross-cultural connection. Fifteen European Young Innovators will pitch their award-winning digital solutions. Global experts will impart the wisdom of their failures and successes. Female founders will share their experiences, empowering others to follow in their footsteps. Styrian organizations will showcase local talent and strengthen European collaboration (as well as showcasing regional delicacies).
This EYI Festival is more than just an event, it’s a testament to the power of innovation – driving meaningful societal change through connection, creation and collaboration.
We look forward to continuing the conversation with you in Graz!
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Topics
Impact Entrepreneurship - Bringing together business and social justice
European youth are not just launching companies, they're launching movements, using technology and creativity to drive systemic change. Their ventures prove that profitability and purpose can go hand in hand. Impact entrepreneurship is not just a trend—it’s a blueprint for a more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient future.
Women in Tech – Why are they valuable?
Women are transforming the digital world but are often undervalued and uncredited. The phrases ‘Women in Tech’ and ‘Women in STEM’ have been thrown around for years, but have the innovation industries changed? Let’s learn from the young female entrepreneurs currently paving the way to a brighter future.
European Cooperation – Welcome to the WSA community
The sad reality is that ‘Europe’ doesn’t hold the same meaning for young people as it did ten years ago. The continent faces major challenges: rising populism, Euroscepticism, inflation, and war. But what Europe stands for – connection, democracy, human rights – is more relevant than ever. The next generation of European citizens has the power to shape, not just Europe, but the world.
Festival Highlights
The European Young Innovators Festival 2025 welcomes you to Graz for three-days of connection, innovation, and collaboration. Here’s what to look forward to:
Nov 26 - Connect4Impact
Murinsel and Radisson Hotel Graz
A warm Styrian welcome to our international attendees. Meet fellow innovators, swap bold ideas, and dive headfirst into the buzzing European innovation scene. These first sparks of ideas could be the beginning of powerful partnerships that will shape the days—and future—ahead.
Nov 27 – Connect. Create. Collab
Seifenfabrik, Rathaus
Day two kicks off with thought-provoking keynotes, panels, and interactive discussions from leading innovators and experienced changemakers. Participants explore the value of impact entrepreneurship, women in tech and European collaboration from those in the forefront of industry. In the afternoon, the European Young Innovators and local startups showcase their digital solutions through inspirational pitches – giving us hope that their innovations can solve the problems currently facing Europe.
Nov 28 - Skills & Knowledge
Unicorn, Lendhafen, Literaturhaus and Dom im Berg
Last but not least, day 3 of the festival focuses on attaining new skills and expanding participants’ expertise. Roundtable discussions foster in-depth dialogues around critical topics, while workshops equip participants with practical tools for their journeys as changemakers. The UniVation Student Poster Presentation spotlights groundbreaking projects from young academics. And to celebrate everything the young European innovators have done, the EYI festival closes with an Award Ceremony and After Party at the iconic Dom im Berg.
Key Participants
Winners
Supporting Partners
European Outreach Partners
Strategic Partners
