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This case study updates the 2015 HEInnovate case study on entrepreneurship education at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia. It focuses on how the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek (EFOS) extends its long-standing entrepreneurship education expertise across disciplinary boundaries. Two lifelong learning initiatives are...

by Hernâni Barros Zão Corga Oliveira Abstract Within the EU GREEN Alliance, nine universities from nine countries1 used HEInnovate to build a shared approach to innovation and knowledge transfer. Each university completed the HEInnovate self-assessment and the results were discussed in an intensive workshop held during the Alliance's sustainability...

By María José Herrero-Villa Abstract Within the YUFE (Young Universities for the Future of Europe) Alliance¹, ten universities used HEInnovate to assess the Alliance's innovation and entrepreneurial capacity to develop a shared Innovation Action Plan. Drawing on the perspectives of students, work package teams and institutional coordinators, the...

This case study examines how HOGENT, one of the largest Universities of Applied Sciences and Arts in Flanders (Belgium), built entrepreneurial capacity across the whole institution. The work drew on two things, used side by side. HEInnovate helped HOGENT read where it stood on entrepreneurship and provided a shared frame of reference for it. Design...

The KTSoftSkills Project, coordinated by the University of Bologna through an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership, addressed the need to strengthen soft and transversal competences among knowledge transfer professionals in higher education and research organisations. The initiative developed a structured training framework, self-assessment framework and...

Green HExagon is an international, primarily online pre-incubation programme for sustainable business ideas, run by university incubators in five European countries. Created within an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership, it works at the preincubation stage, where ideas are still too early for an incubator or accelerator. Over four months, teams move...

This case study updates the 2018 HEInnovate case study of the University of Kassel and examines the evolution of its entrepreneurship, innovation and knowledge transfer ecosystem. Since 2018, the university has further strengthened its organisational capacity through the continued development of UniKasselTransfer and a portfolio of complementary...

StartLab.Brussels Academics is a pre-incubation programme developed within the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and StartLab.Brussels entrepreneurship ecosystem to support researchers in exploring entrepreneurship and translating research into societal and economic impact. Positioned within the broader StartLab.Brussels incubator, the programme...

Vilma Purienė, Head of the Knowledge and Technology Transfer Centre at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUS TECH) and Member of the HEInnovate Expert Group, shares how the self-assessment surfaced urgent challenges and priorities her institution hadn't previously identified, and became an ongoing tool for monitoring progress across the...

Charlotte Norrman , Senior Associate Professor, Department for Management and Engineering, Project management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Research and Innovation Support Division (FINA), ECIU@LiU (Linköping University, Sweden) and Member of the HEInnovate Expert Group, shares why HEInnovate is more than a diagnostic tool, and how it creates a...

Mona Roman, Research Director at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences and Coordinator of the U!REKA European University Alliance, shares how HEInnovate provided a shared framework to assess each partner's entrepreneurial and innovation capacity, and directly informed their EIT Higher Education Initiative proposal. 💬 Want to share how...

Impronta Granada is a quadruple helix alliance between the University of Granada and the Provincial Council of Granada that connects university expertise with territorial priorities across 174 municipalities. Building on participatory Urban Agendas, it combines a digital platform organising more than 1,000 measures with a portfolio of co-creation...

ACCENT: Accessible Entrepreneurship – Empowerment for Global Futures is an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership (2022–2025) that involved the University of Cologne, the University of Granada, and the University of Pavia. The project addressed the need for more inclusive entrepreneurship support in higher education, focusing on international and refugee...

by Erëza Mehmeti Abstract: AAB College in Kosovo used the HEInnovate self-assessment to strengthen its institutional approach to innovation and entrepreneurship. After an initial low-participation attempt in 2024, the process was reframed following the Train the Trainers programme in Helsinki in September 2025. A structured relaunch, supported by...

by Natalia Nianchuk Abstract: Odessa National Economic University used HEInnovate as a university-wide development tool and within the U!Innovate project to strengthen its approach to innovation and entrepreneurship. After participating in the Train the Trainers session in Berlin in June 2025, the methodology was introduced internally through...