As part of the final output of the Unite for Horizon Europe project (UNITE4H), we are excited to announce the launch of a special issue of the UIIN magazine – Connect. It is now out and available online, get reading here. Universities’ role in society has come to the fore in recent years and it
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Unite for Horizon Europe (UNITE4H) was a project to enhance the strategic engagement capacity between Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for Horizon Europe initiatives. To achieve this goal, UNITE4H project partners designed and piloted a comprehensive trainingprogramme across Europe. The full toolkit and all invidivual modules can be found and
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The learning framework is based on our investigation to understand the needs and challenges experienced by HEI and SME representatives that we conducted in 2021. This investigation consisted of: – Desk research on HEI-SME collaboration in European-level and national-level contexts in Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland and Spain – Benchmarking analysis – European funding survey
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Access to new technologies and the (university) partners’ know-how, securing a company’s competitiveness, time benefits, cost reduction, risk diversification, synergy effects, contact with potential employees….the list of potential benefits that can be drawn from UBC is inexhaustible. With a high level of university-business cooperation Germany ranks among the top in the list of European countries[1].
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Even though there has been a closer and more increased collaboration within the Horizon 2020 programme, the involvement of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in innovation partnerships has been reported considerably low. This has resulted in a lower intensity of cross-sectoral cooperation among knowledge providers and smaller businesses. The European Commission wants to raise the
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