EU FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT TIPS

WHICH ACTIVITIES ARE SUPPORTED UNDER THIS ACTION?

Boosting innovation in higher education, business and in the broader socio-economic environment:
- jointly developing and implementing new learning and teaching methods (like new multidisciplinary curricula, learner-centred and real problem-based teaching and learning);
o organising continuing educational programmes and activities with and within companies;

-  jointly developing solutions for challenging issues, product and process innovation (students, professors and practitioners together).
Developing entrepreneurial mind-set and skills:
-  creating schemes of transversal skills learning and application throughout higher education programmes developed in cooperation with enterprises aiming at strengthening employability, creativity and new professional paths;
- introducing entrepreneurship education in any discipline to provide students, researchers, staff and educators with the knowledge, skills and motivation to engage in entrepreneurial activities in a variety of settings;

- opening up new learning opportunities through the practical application of entrepreneurial skills, which can involve and/or lead to the commercialisation of new services, products and prototypes, to the creation of start-ups and spin-offs.

Stimulating the flow and exchange of knowledge between higher education and enterprises:
- study field related activities in enterprises which are fully embedded in the curriculum, recognised and credited;
-  set-ups to trial and test innovative measures;
-  exchanges of students, researchers, teaching staff and company staff for a limited period;
-  involvement of company staff into teaching and research.