In times of cultural crisis, we need regional communities of practice that spearhead cultural innovation. The overall objective of the project is to develop and test a model for cultural innovation in ecological entrepreneurship. Through a series of four seminars tailored by the partners, we will analyze the cultural innovative potential related to each place. By shifting perspectives and seminar sites, the project will yield principles, course material, methods, and design for regional ecopreneurship in two distinct European cultural heritage regions (Wales and Vestland). All intellectual outputs will be linked to the inquiry processes. They in turn will generate a basis for course materials in the regional course. The place-based laboratories of practice will ground the curriculum development on community and regional level, which are the final deliveries of this project.The broader EU political context is the acute need, particularly in rural areas, of entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship activities for young people. Vocational Education and place specific social/cultural innovation is strongly connected to democracy and empowerment of young and vulnerable people in urban, as well as rural contexts. Geographically and horizontally the project will explore this within the intercultural geo-regional heritage context of the North-western seas of Europe. A particular focus will be on the new role of crafts in enterprise and community development, wherein a first pilot was designed and tested in Aurland, Norway, in September 2019 in collaboration between SJH, NMBU and Ruskin Mill Educational Trust. The choice of partners reflects this intention. The partnership is also a result of earlier collaboration between our regions and institutions, in addition to a joint place-based education course by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Sogn Agricultural School. The term 'ecopreneurship' has been coined through this collaboration context to describe cultural innovation through integrated social, economic and ecological entrepreneurship. The key challenge is to address the creative potential that can surface through the current ecological and social crisis as a cultural renewal through educational, social and economic innovation.The objectives are (1) to explore how theses methodologies can be piloted within a particular inter-regional heritage context of North-West inter-cultural coastal and rural region (Norway, Iceland, Wales and England) dominated by agriculture and fisheries, compared and contrasted by experiences and perspectives from our different cultural and educational contexts, and (2) to design and deliver place-based seminars/workshops in four different locations, (3) to synthesize and use this as basis for designing and developing two regional course curricula in ecopreneurship education and (4) to synthesize theoretical and methodological intellectual outputs, and publish relevant material to support the design and delivery of such a programs. By connecting education and research to community, cultural heritage and innovation in new ‘laboratories of practice’, interregional social and cultural innovation can in a long-term perspective be achieved. The higher and vocational education institutions involved in the project want to develop stronger links to laboratories of practice where students can develop competence, methodologies and understanding connected to real life contexts of authentic learning arenas. At the same time, they bring theoretical insights and methodological perspectives into the joint question of bridging transformative education, enterprise and community development.