Youthquake – a national business incubator for young people

Youthquake is a business incubator for young people where teams move from an idea to a real project. Participants work on their own ideas, test them in practice, develop a product and receive support from mentors and experts.

The programme includes 1,000 participants, 320 teams across Ukraine, 3 months of training, 10 educational modules, and the development of business plans or MVPs. As a result, 40 teams receive funding.

- School students aged 13–17
- University students aged 18–25
- Team members may be older than the specified age
- Maximum 3 participants per team
- Team members may come from different cities and regions of Ukraine
- School and university students cannot form one joint team.

National grant support:

- UAH 207,500 – for 10 GreenTech teams
- UAH 250,000 – for 4 school teams
- UAH 500,000 – for 4 student teams
- UAH 500,000 and UAH 1,500,000 – for Grand Demo Day superfinalists

Additional support for teams from Lviv:

- UAH 200,000 – for 20 teams

Taxes and fees will be withheld from the stated financial support amounts in accordance with Ukrainian legislation.

- Mobile applications
- Web platforms
- Marketplaces
- Software
- IoT and digital services
- Physical products
- Own-brand manufacturing
- Manufacturing process development
- B2B services
- Educational products
- Medical and technological solutions
- Data Science
- Bioengineering
- R&D
- Energy and environmental technologies
- Resource management and waste reduction
- Agricultural analytics and automation
- Digital agricultural platforms
- Biotechnology

- Registration – completion of the online application
- Selection – application review and participant selection
- Training and work on the project
- Interim online pitching
- Grand Demo Day – January 2027
- Selection of winners and provision of financial support

1. Form a team.
2. Define the idea/project.
3. Prepare contact details of all team members.
4. School students prepare a motivation letter.
5. University students prepare a project pitch deck.
6. Complete the online application on behalf of the team. The application is submitted by an adult.

An expert team evaluates applications according to defined selection criteria:

-Clarity and relevance of the problem
-Quality and innovation of the solution
-Understanding of the target audience and its needs
-Business potential and viability of the project

During the interim pitching, teams present their projects and results; finalists for the Grand Demo Day are selected based on the pitching results.

At the final stage, business plans or MVPs are evaluated by a jury.