Euro-African Network of Excellence for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

The Euro-African Network of Excellence for Innovation and Entrepreneurship – INSTART – aims at improving the knowledge triangle by promoting an effective Innovation culture in Higher Education, and starting up Innovative modes of association and interaction between Universities, Businesses and Society in order to enhance the socio-economic environment across the South Mediterranean Region (MED). The Euro-African Network of Excellence for Entrepreneurship and innovation – INSTART Project aims at improving the knowledge triangle by promoting an effective Innovation culture in Higher Education, and starting up Innovative modes of association and interaction between Universities, Businesses and Society in order to enhance the socio-economic environment across the South Mediterranean region.

The Specific objectives of INSTART Project are the following:

Specific Objective 1: To catch up on knowledge production, promote and start up an effective Innovation culture by implementing the Transversal Accelerator Program at all Education and Research levels of 12 South Mediterranean Universities.
Specific Objective 2: To improve the capacities, create and reinforce structures of Innovation at the MED Universities through development of specific training Program, and starting a best practice transfer Systems for long-term cooperation between Mediterranean HEIS and with European Universities.
Specific Objective 3: To increase innovative actions and build new modes of interaction by enhancing knowledge flows between Universities, Labour market and Society through MED Region with the implementation of the INSTART Network innovative methodologies.

Project Acronym

INSTART

Programme

European Commission, Erasmus+, KA2 – Capacity-building in the Field of Higher Education

Lead Contractor

ULPGC – Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Partners