Deadline: 12-Oct-2025
The EdTech4BY Startup Incubation Programme is a fully online, hands-on journey designed to help IT professionals and aspiring founders go from idea to impact in the education technology sector.
The focus areas of the programme include discovering high-potential opportunities in the EdTech space, validating your startup idea and business model, building your MVP using no-code and AI tools, learning how to pitch and communicate effectively with investors, accessing mentorship from experienced EdTech experts, engaging in networking sessions and conferences with industry leaders, participating in an EdTech hackathon, and leveraging a large B2B network of potential partners and investors.
The programme is open to Belarusian people living either inside or outside Belarus with IT or tech backgrounds who are aspiring to become EdTech founders or early-stage startup teams. Participants will gain access to comprehensive incubation support, equity-free funding opportunities, and international visibility. The programme will run in three phases, with 25 startups entering at the beginning. Sixteen startups will each receive 5000 EUR in the first phase, nine will receive 15000 EUR in the second phase, and the final five will receive 30000 EUR in the last phase, ensuring progressive support for the most promising ideas.
The programme also highlights the Creators of IT Tools Incubation Programme, which encourages startups to design innovative digital solutions that directly support education, ensuring that ideas are grounded in educational research, scalable, privacy-compliant, results-driven, and user-friendly. Eligible tools include skill development apps, tutoring platforms, assessment tools, immersive learning solutions, adaptive learning systems, administrative tools, gamified learning apps, and learning management systems.
This initiative empowers startups to build and scale impactful EdTech solutions that enhance teaching, improve learner engagement, and make education more accessible worldwide.
For more information, visit EdTech4BY.
