Innovation Labs is a mentorship program for young people who want to make a difference through their creative technologies. Participants have the chance to fine-tune their ideas and and turn them into real, working prototypes, in a seven-month development period with diverse feedback sources. Young founders gain access to bleeding edge technologies offered by program partners, who open them for exploration and creative development. The Innovation Labs experience is also about young people gaining self-confidence, raising their expectations and perceiving all the opportunities and sources of support which are actually available, but not always visible. Innovation Labs is a combination of advanced tech prototyping, networking in the startup ecosystem and enhanced self-efficacy, that empowers tech founders - as it empowered us.