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Erasmus+ ready Valencia, Spain Ages 14–18

AI & Business Youth Camp in Valencia

Shaping the next generation of tech founders — an immersive 2-week summer program where teenagers (14–18) build real digital products with the help of AI.

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Teenagers exploring a holographic tech project above Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences
The core concept

Not another coding course

Fast-paced, real-world innovation — students build actual tech products and real businesses in days, not months.

AI-assisted product building

Rapid prototyping with modern AI tools — no dry syntax lessons.

Entrepreneurship

Validate ideas, build business models, and pitch them convincingly.

International

Cross-cultural teams, a global mindset, and an Erasmus+ quality framework.

What you’ll learn

Two expert-led tracks

Track 1

AI-Assisted Development

Led by Sergei Privalov, Senior Software Engineer & AI Architect.

  • AI tools & prompt engineering (ChatGPT, Claude, modern dev tools)
  • Build MVPs in days — fast iteration cycles
  • Real tech stack: web apps, no-code platforms, AI integrations
Track 2

Business & Agile Tracking

Led by Nadezhda Glukhareva, certified business tracker.

  • Idea validation: customer interviews, problem–solution fit, lean canvas
  • Agile product management: sprints, stand-ups, backlog prioritisation
  • Pitch-ready storytelling for real audiences
Sample projects

What a team ships in two weeks

Working products, not slide decks. Each of these was built from a blank page with AI assistance — the same format students follow at the camp.

Route builder screen with a numbered list of Tbilisi stops and a catalogue of places below
Web app

City Guide — trip route builder

A travel planner that turns a curated catalogue of restaurants, museums and parks into a personal city itinerary: add stops, reorder them, save the route and open it in Google Maps.

Culinary AI chat with a photo of a fridge and a generated ingredient list
AI assistant

Culinary AI — cook from a photo

A chat assistant on a multimodal AI model: send a photo of your fridge, it recognises the products on the shelves and replies with an ingredient list and a recipe you can actually cook.

Trend Decoder landing page with an uploaded outfit photo ready for analysis
Computer vision

Trend Decoder — decode any outfit

Upload a photo of a look and the AI breaks it down item by item — a fashion-search product with a full landing page, onboarding and image upload flow.

Landing page for a technology course for grandparents with an illustrated hero image
Landing page

Tech Courses for Grandparents

A launch page for a digital-literacy course for seniors: positioning, AI-generated illustrations and a one-tap sign-up that lands straight in a messenger chat.

Beyond the classroom

Tech culture & fun in Valencia

A group of international teenagers exploring sunny Valencia

Exclusive tech tours

Visits to Valencia’s startup hubs and innovation campuses.

High-energy activities

Beach team-building, outdoor challenges and cultural exploration.

International networking

Connect with young innovators from across Europe — future co-founders.

The grand finale

Pitch Day & Graduation

The camp culminates in a live Pitch Day — students present their MVPs and business models to industry professionals and their parents (with a live stream of the event).

  1. 01

    MVP presentations

    Students pitch to industry professionals and their parents.

  2. 02

    Expert feedback

    Live Q&A and jury scoring.

  3. 03

    Award ceremony

    Certificates, trophies, celebration.

Every participant leaves with an official Academy diploma, a portfolio-ready project, and the confidence of a young founder.

Meet the team

Experts behind the Academy

Nataliia Krasilnikova

Nataliia Krasilnikova

Co-founder, CEO & Head of Business Development

Executive leadership, internationalization strategy and institutional B2B partnerships (Erasmus+ / Turing).

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Nadezhda Glukhareva

Nadezhda Glukhareva

Co-founder & COO — Operations, Methodology & Business Development

Certified business tracker for entrepreneurs and product teams; expert in startup diagnostics, product management and facilitating teen teams.

Sergei Privalov

Sergei Privalov

Tech Lead — Senior Software Engineer & AI Architect

10+ years in software development; author of the technical-training architecture and tracking platform; expert in AI-assisted coding and rapid prototyping for EdTech.

Our method

A methodology built to scale

We don’t depend on scarce IT hires. Our lead experts personally train local teachers and business trackers in Spain using standardized methodologies — so quality stays consistent as we grow.

Tech mentor training

Sergei trains technical mentors on our authored methodology — taking teen ideas to a working MVP without long, complex coding courses.

Business tracker training

Nadezhda trains business trackers in project diagnostics, tracking meetings and building a founder mindset in teenagers.

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