The system of business environment institutions (BEI) plays an important role in the diffusion of technology process and assists the innovative entreprenuership development. Its support is especially important in the emerging areas of innovation like scale-ups. This group of SMEs is considered to be another way of innovation but still faces many difficulties in development. At the same time, according to the research results pointed in documents shown in section 1.3.2 and data available in the work program despite the number and variety of BEI they are still not sufficient enough for the appropriate innovation stimulation (includint effective support for scale-ups) in the partners states, which at the same time affects the level an quality of innovation and the competitiveness of the European economy. That is way TARR, TPlj, CTRIA, BARR and IRP decided to join their forces and by sharing knowledge and experience try to contribute in solving problem mentioned above. The main objective of this project is to develop through the lifetime of the project (9 months) basing on the scaleups analysis and the evaluation of current system tools and instruments, recommendations for improvement of the scaleups development support system for entrepreneurship policy makers and specialized business environment institutions operating as scale-ups supporters followed by dissemination of gained knowledge and experiences. The goals of the project will be achevied with the use of Twinning Advanced method. It assumes the cooperation of equal partners. Therefore it is possible not only to exchange and disseminate existing solutions but also to develop tecommendations for the new ones, which will eventually become godd practices in supporting first of all scale-up and secondly the innovation processes in general. Thus the main and specific objectives the work-flow of SCALESCRAPERS will comprise a one phase process, whoch is the development and dissemination of Design Options Paper.

DIHs are one-stop-shops that help companies to become more competitive with regard to their business and production processes, products or services using digital technologies. DIHs have the mission of helping companies to betteDIHs are one-stop-shops that help companies to become more competitive with regard to their business and production processes, products or services using digital technologies. DIHs have the mission of helping companies (mainly start-ups, SMEs and mid-caps) to better understand and experiment on how digital technologies can improve their efficiency, effectiveness and product quality – in other words, their competitiveness. DIHs should have strong linkages with service providers outside of their own region in order to support companies in those services and technologies where regional DIHs do not have the requested in-house resources to provide services based on specific technologies sought by users. In recent decades, health-related activities have evolved from a reactive approach (curing diseases) to an approach based on the P4 medicine paradigm: Predictive, Preventive, Personalised and Participatory. In this new paradigm, the use of digital technologies is key. Thanks to digital technologies such as AI or HPC and the massive generation of medical and other health-related data, traditional methods for early detection, diagnosis, treatment, patient management, precision medicine, drug development, genomics, or medical image analysis are being transformed. DIHsP4_MEDICINE project aims to unleash the potential that exists around the collaboration among DIHs focused in health-related activities. The lessons to be learned from the activities carried out within the framework of the project will make possible to take advantage this experience for the implementation of joint long-term and stable programmes to fostering collaboration among DIHs, as well as exploring the opportunity to articulate stable Hub corridors to shape these collaborations.

ITTA- International Technology Transfer Academy was a long term project aiming to define the vocational qualification standards for Technology Transfer Specialist and design, test, evaluate a multidimensional training program to develop a competence based vocational training curricula, in cooperation with partnering organizations from Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, slovenia and Turkey and Objectives: - to identify the actual needs of the technology transfer sector and existing or potential staff at the sector, - to bring together and share diverse experience and approaches on technology transfer and on the training of the staff within the sector, - to design a multi-dimensional, competent based vocational training curriculum for potential TTO staff aiming to develop knowledge, skills, values and practical approach. - to develop content and learner based methodology for a distant learning module and face to face training programmes, - to implement, test and monitor the developed curriculum and the modules through 150 participants (20 pax selected by each partner organisation) at national level and 30 of them at international level. - to evaluate and analyze the efficiency of the training modules and improve them according to the evaluation results, - to compile and publicize the training content and modules and promote the curriculum all through the Europe, - to support participants to be employed at the partnering/other organizations, further monitor and support their development Target group of the project was mainly the young people from 18-35 years of age having potential and willingness to take an active role in Technology Transfer and R&D sector, who are mostly new graduates, students expected to be graduated within the first 2 years of the project and current TTO staff. The project was mainly focusing on how to develop competences of TT officers in line with the changes and developments in the sector and bring out materials to be used for training of TTO staff. In this respect there has been 25 national training activities, 5 international training courses, national and international level distant learning activities has been organized in accordance with the need assessment executed at the very beginning of the project. Various materials and documents has been produced to be used for similar capacity building programs for TTOs including online training modules, training modules, training curricula, video trainings etc.

Although EU programmes and policy makers have been encouraging the potential for cooperation between different startup ecosystems - including within the Alpe Adria region-, still no strong coordination mechanisms yet exist that would ensure a streamlining between regional, national and EU initiatives in support of innovative businesses. The basic TransUP concept is to tackle the challenge of making the Alpe Adria region an attractive hub for innovative entrepreneurs and investors, where the ecosystem made of actors and services devoted to support the creation and development of new businesses is really collaborative and transnational. Technology startups in the peripheral European territories like the Alpine Adriatic usually look to Western Europe or to the USA rather than to neighboring countries for models of change and development. The overall objective of the TransUP project is thus to collaboratively address a common innovation support challenge and to peer-review transnational support services and co-design an innovative and systemic Crossregional Softlanding Programme for enhancing a multicultural and international driven attitude among startups in order to improve their survival chances on the global market. The Crossregional Softlanding Programme is aimed at offering to startups from neighboring regions Carinthia (Austria), Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy), Slovenia and the newly entered EU member state Croatia, the possibility to develop their company within a multicultural environment. The expected result is the activation of a comprehensive international attitude in all aspects of startup business management with positive effects from market reach to competitive strength. Specific focus will be dedicated to startups with reference to the Alpe Adria region but the recommendations developed in the Design Option Paper will be valid for all sectors and EU geographical location.

"The project m-commerce developed a course to qualify employees of SMEs for introduction and operation of m-commerce services in the company. M-commerce as a specialization of E-commerce is due to the increasing popularity of smartphones, a fast-growing segment in online trading. Although the customers are ready because of their technologisation it is not optimally treated by many companies. Therefore SMEs need employees who have the appropriate knowledge and skills to implement M-commerce in a SME.The project had the following outputs :1) Assessment of current status of M-commerce in different regions of Europe2) Collection of best-practice examples from different regions3) Creating teaching and learning materials for the M-commerce course4) Running the course in all seven partner countries The determination of the current status of M-commerce took place over the collection and linking of data from different sources: online survey, conducted interviews in all partner countries, publicly available statistics and current literature . A "" by-product"" was a collection of best-practice examples. This practice examples described complete M-commerce solutions or only some aspects .The preparation of the training material was done by the partner FH JOANNEUM , University of Timisoara, Center for Knowledge Management and University of Alcala . To ensure the quality and the unified structure a specially created template was used for the development of individual topics . A further quality assurance measure was the mandatory peer review process for all modules . For each module we defined one evaluation partner. The whole course was translated into eight languages.The course consisted of three modules (each two days) and one practice work. Module one contained all the basics needed to create a strategy for the entire business process from marketing to delivery economically optimized and legally correct. The second module dealed with the topics of online marketing and consists of items like search engine optimization and social media marketing. An important aspect was the evaluation of this marketing mix. In the third module, where the technical contents were included. These enhanced the appearance and the usability of the existing e -commerce activities for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs. The practicle part tranfered the content of the course to the need of the existing e-commerce solutions from the participating SMEs. Each training day was supplemented by appropriate practical tasks relevant to the own projects of the participants. The time each participant invests, was an indicator for the quality of the result .The e-learning platform of the FH JOANNEUM was used to support the executing of the course in seven countries. The platform made content sharing and communication between the participants available. Because all participants communicated in English, a course- wide communication for the exchange of experiences was possible.The evaluation and reflection after the first implementation of the course was done by all learners, teachers , organizers and producers and allowed an adaptation of the course. This feedback process was used to increase the acceptance and to improve the course for the following participants.The target group can be described as follows: Participants, that are already responsible for online agendas in a SME or should overtake them in the near future, were qualified to be a M-commerce manager. They were be responsible for the creation of the M-commerce strategy for the SME, subsequently the implementation of the marketing plan and optimization of the SME-website or webshop. The SMEs whose employees participated in the course, got support in the preparation M-commerce activities, thus expanding their customers and market presence. The positive effect of the course will be medium to long term, as all measures need time to convert and to act .The following organizations took part in the project:FH JOANNEUM GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H.: University of applied sciences from AustriaCenter for Knowledge Management: Consulting Company from MacedoniaJOHANNEBERG SCIENCE PARK: Businesspark from SwedenTEHNOLOSKI PARK LJUBLJANA DOO: Technology park from SloveniaUNIONE REGIONALE DELLE CAMERE DI COMMERCIO INDUSTRIA, ARTIGIANATO E AGRICOLTURA DEL VENETO: Chamber of commerce from ItalyUNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALA: University from SpainUNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA TIMISOARA: University from Romania"