AIC Plus is €5 a year and renews yearly; you can cancel any time and it then runs to the end of the paid year. Each event decides who can register: some are open to every account, and the busiest recruitment events, such as The Trading Fair and some in-house days, ask for AIC Plus. AIC Plus lets you register for those; it does not guarantee a place, because at selection events the host chooses who comes. You also get partner discounts, such as 15% off at Hellotest, and the Graphite card. The codes show on this page once you are signed in with AIC Plus or Premium. Premium includes everything in AIC Plus. You can pay first and make your account right after, with the same email.

Yes, for €10 for the first year while your AIC Plus is running: the €5 you paid counts in full, whenever you upgrade. Your AIC Plus ends when Premium starts, since Premium includes it. After the first year Premium renews at €15.

You move back to a free account, or to AIC Plus if you have a running AIC Plus year. The Premium benefits stop: the Analyst program access that came with Premium, the Premium prices, Premium-only events and the virtual Carbon card, and your profile shows the Standard card again. Your access to the analyst portal ends too, unless you have a running program year. Everything you built up stays yours: points, rewards, badges, certificates and your research.

Yes, any time, from this page or your account under Manage billing. AIC Plus or Premium then runs to the end of the year you paid for and does not renew. There is no refund for the rest of the year.

No. Premium starts the moment you pay, and at checkout you agree to that immediate start, which ends the right of withdrawal. Payments are not refunded, in whole or in part. If a payment is refunded or disputed anyway, Premium ends straight away, together with anything bought at a Premium price while it was active, such as the Options Course at €44.95. See the terms.

Yes. €18.15 gives you one year of the program, counted from your first Team Selection, not from the day you pay. It does not include the Analyst card or any Premium benefits. Premium includes the program, the Analyst card and everything else on this page for €15 a year. Premium itself runs for a year from the day you pay; your analyst year still starts at your first Team Selection.

Onboarding is online and at your own pace: Module 0, the UMushroom Foundations and a recorded Program Introduction. Once you finish it, you take a seat at the next Team Selection of your track; if the teams are already locked, you request a seat for the next round and join the waiting list. The in-person desk in Amsterdam is by selection: apply to the vacancy, which opens two months before each intake, and once selected you go Premium or buy a program year. Its Team Selections are in September, November, January and March, most sessions are on a Monday or Tuesday evening and the pitch at the end of the cycle is required.

Online is open to anyone who goes Premium or buys a program year. It runs five cycles a year, each one following a university teaching period (next Week 1: 26 October 2026, then 1 February 2027). The teaching is in recorded modules. The report you write in the portal is the final deadline, and it counts once Sophron® signs it off. Each sector team uploads one 10-minute pitch video with it. There is no live pitch evening. Your analyst year starts when you take your first seat. See the next dates on the join page.

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