"<< Objectives >>Education to Business is a project designed to help students connect with businesses, gain practical experience and develop crucial skills (ICT, business and entrepreneurial skills) in order to improve their chances of employment. This will be achieved by selectin 16 university students (forming 4 teams) who will go through a three module programme for designing entrepreneurial growth plans for 4 SME's who will take part of the project as ""learning partners"".<< Implementation >>1. Creating a program for impact on small businesses2. Selecting 16 university students3. Selecting 4 small and medium sized enterprises as learning partners4. Implementing 4 day Training for the selected teams for designing entrepreneurial growth plans for SMEs'5. Organising 5 day study tour in Estonia for visiting successful SMEs'6. Mentorship period for designing 4 entrepreneurial growth plans for SMEs'7. Final event for public presentation of the 4 plans for SME<< Results >>1. Developed a ready to use training programme for creating a Entrepreneurial Growth PlansThe programme will be based upon non-formal learning methodologies 2. Strengthened entrepreneurial and employment skills among university studentsThrough the project students will have the change to work on real case examples of the 4 SME's selected3. Improved entrepreneurial practices for business development of 4 SMEs.The SMEs will be ultimate beneficiaries who will have entrepreneurial growth plans"

InnoBuyer aims to become a testing ground and benchmark towards the implementation of a demand-driven methodology that brings together procurers and innovation suppliers (notably EIC SMEs) to jointly co-create solutions to a common challenge proposed by the procurer, while also facilitating the procurer adoption and the innovation supplier commercialization of the solution. The project will: * Foster the development of an ecosystem to promote collaborative innovation between the best European public and private procurers and innovation suppliers (in particular, EIC projects/companies). * Launch and validate a support programme to co-create innovation between buyers and suppliers. The programme will be demand-driven and geared to adoption by design. * Demonstrate the increase of efficiency of EU public (but also private) services via piloting 15 innovative solutions, notably the ones from the EIC-funded projects/companies. It will do so by executing four sequential actions: Action 1: Recruitment and aggregation of procurers. Partners will launch a dissemination campaign to recruit unmet needs from procurers and then select the 15 best candidates. Other interested public and private procurers will be aggregated to the selected challenge so they can also acquire knowledge along the project. Action 2: Buyer-SME matching. Partners will support buyers to launch an Open Market Consultation to receive feedback on their challenges. Then, they will recruit and award suppliers to answer to the proposed challenges. Action 3: Pilot co-creation. Procurers and suppliers will jointly co-create solutions to the challenges. The solutions will be tested and evaluated. Suppliers will receive support towards future commercialization of their solutions. Action 4: Terms of Reference delivery. Support the creation of ToRs in collaboration with external experts, as the base for a future tender for the solution by the procurers.

OVERALL OBJECTIVE of Ready2Scale project is to enhance the EIC scale-up mechanisms and the establishment of lasting synergies between the ecosystem builders of Start-up Europe by coordinating and supporting the acceleration and market expansion of digital and deep tech startups, bringing closer the strategic autonomy and competitiveness of EU industry in these key areas. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE is to connect Digital and Deep-Tech (DDT) start-up ecosystems, including those from Widening countries, increasing their engagement with EIC, national & international offerings and enhancing their capabilities to scale-up outside national borders. This objectives of the Ready2Scale project will be achieved through implementing the set of interrelated work packages (WPs). In WP2, the ecosystem players will be mapped and synergies with stakeholders and between ecosystems will be established, especially focusing on the Widening Countries. WP3 aims to spread knowledge of EIC offerings, national and international funding, as well as inform start-ups of procurement possibilities and build their capacity to become impact driven companies. WP4 aims to set up the acceleration programme, including impact assessment, and monitoring framework, start-up enrolment, assessment and selection, and implementation of the programme, that includes investment readiness training, investors and start-ups matching and market discovery missions. These WPs are heavily interrelated with the WP5 communication and the dissemination activities, and finally ensuring the sustainability of the project and exploitation of the results. WP1 assures the project’s success by coordinating the consortium in their tasks, proposing efficient and pro-active measures to guarantee quality control and timely delivery of results, ensuring efficient financial management and reporting; oversees the ethical aspects.

Project 4NGELS was initiated to connect the business angel networks from strong innovation ecosystems - Estonia (EstBAN), Finland (FiBAN) – with the business angel networks from the less advanced innovation territories - Poland (Cobin Angels) and Slovenia (BAS) and startups and other wider innovation ecosystem stakeholders from Europe. The project will be tackling the significant internal disparities existing at territorial level, by opening up and sharing the existing successful initiatives of cross-border investment, carried out between EstBAN and FiBAN over the last 9 years. The project is focused on raising the innovation efficiency within the startup ecosystem. Angel investors have an important part to play in the startup ecosystem financing framework, as they represent the most important source of funding for early-stage startups. If a startup doesn´t receive early-stage funding and fails to scale-up, the whole society is at loss. Startups do not just create new innovative services and products but they also create jobs, new infrasctructure and bring a flow of knowledge and expertise into a country. All these benefits have a bigger impact on the economy on a local and national scale. Throughout the project, the partners will be undertaking collective ambitions to understand how to successfully initiate cross-border angel investing in Europe, and implement this to maximise the impact of the benefits and reduce the innovation divide. In addition, the project will involve different stakeholders from all four ecosystems, creating a flow of connections and knowledge. As an outcome, 4NGELS will create a more interconnected, inclusive and efficient ecosystem benefiting the business angels, startups, other ecosystem stakeholders and society at large.