The Transatlantic Entrepreneurship Academy (TEA) is a collaboration between the entrepreneurship programs of two universities: the Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey and The Center of Entrepreneurship and Applied Business Studies at the Karl Franzens University of Graz, Graz, Austria. We put disruptive innovation at the heart of entrepreneurship. The Transatlantic Entrepreneurship Academy program’s mission is to prepare and assist the next generation in transforming all of our futures for the better. Our program combines teaching innovation and entrepreneurship -- skills now critical to all fields of work, alongside supporting and developing truly innovative international startups. Why Graz, Austria and Montclair, New Jersey? We believe that by harnessing the American economy and entrepreneurial culture and joining that to the Austrian ecosystem startup support and innovation know-how we can foster creative and meaningful international real-world outcomes. Entrenched learning in two regions has positive economic impact for local ecosystems. Members develop lifelong international collaborations, bonds and friendships from which a network of trusted partnerships can be formed. Why Transatlantic Entrepreneurship Academy? The future will not look like the past: we are in an era of global disruptive transformation by automation and artificial intelligence. Old economies are on the cusp of disappearing; our environment is at the edge of crisis. New models of innovation are needed to meet this challenging future. Automation means that hard skills need to become flexible, adaptive and innovation centered. We put disruptive innovation at the heart of entrepreneurship with the philosophy that this is critical for all of us meet the future effectively.