Expected Outcome:
Projects results are expected to contribute to four (4) or more of the following expected outcomes:
- Improved integration of research institutions, Higher Education Institutions, vocational schools, and similar organisations into Europe's innovation ecosystems by establishing better links with start-ups and start-up networks, accelerators and incubators, business angels and investor communities;
- Improved flows of knowledge, skills, and talents between educational institutions and other innovation ecosystem actors at various levels of development, including in the deep tech[1] field in line with the New European Innovation Agenda[2];
- Improved skills of all involved ecosystem actors to increase innovation potential, inter-sectoral mobility, and market uptake of new technologies; Targeted are skills necessary and responsive to innovation and labour market needs on digital, green, and entrepreneurial skills, networking skills, risk taking, and in particular in the deep tech field;
- Improved connections of educational institutions to high-quality remote testing, validation, and up-scaling of innovations delivered by research and technology infrastructures across the EU;
- Improved competence of students, graduates, researchers, and workforce to launch, run, and lead successful and profitable start-ups, including in the deep tech field;
- Enhanced availability of local talents equipped with skills to support business acceleration and digitalisation[3];
- Enhanced entrepreneurial activity in developing innovation ecosystems and their upscaling and interconnectedness across
