Validation Report

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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Learning Framework

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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Context of University-Business Engagement in Germany

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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