Target area:	Linking Higher Education & Society
Sub-target area:	Practice-oriented Education
Target countries:	Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro
Duration:	15/11/2019 - 14/11/2022, extension until 14/05/2023
Partners:	FH Joanneum, Austria WUS Austria, Austria University of Girona, Spain University of Vaasa, Finland NCDIEL Skopje, North Macedonia University Tirana, Albania University of Vlora, Albania University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina INTERA Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina University of Montenegro, Montenegro
Budget line:	Erasmus +, KA2 – Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education

Project description

The main aim of the KNOWHUB project is to develop the PCUs entrepreneurial and innovation capacities and enhance their cooperation with enterprises giving them the central role in the regional innovation ecosystem

Specific Project Objectives:

·         To analyse and understand the knowledge transfer, innovation and entrepreneurial infrastructure and activities at the PCUs in the national ecosystems

·         To set-up and equip 5 Commercialisation Hubs (one at each PCU) that will serve as one-stop-shop for cooperation with enterprises and support of students and academic staff to commercialise their research results and entrepreneurial ideas

·         To develop capacities of the Commercialisation Hubs, their services and instruments

·         To increase knowledge transfer and joint activities between the PCUs and local enterprises through the Commercialisation Hubs

·         To increase students’ (self)employability through practical placement and practice oriented interdisciplinary trainings covering selected EntreComp Framework’s competences

·       To train academic staff on entrepreneurial education  to enable and encourage them to include entrepreneurship in their teaching