The EU has defined smart and sustainable growth as one of the priorities (EU Strategy 2020). An essential part for reaching these priorities is innovation. Innovation structures and support measures are being established and provided at the EU and at various levels in its member states. However, recently there is more attention to bottom-up rather than top-down innovation: for example, innovative, new business and project development which is based upon ventures from creative and business class: students from universities, technical, art and business schools. This approach has been employed in several places and has a good innovation potential. The project is based on the knowledge transfer idea from countries where there are established efficient, bottom up innovation structures and platforms, such as in the Netherlands and Denmark. The partners who represent countries with lower innovation capacities (Latvia, Estonia and Cyprus) wanted to learn from this experience, test the approaches and establish similar labs in their countries.Project objective was to raise bottom-up innovation capacity for the benefit of sustainable and socially responsible growth in Estonia, Latvia and Cyprus, based on the experiences from Denmark and the Netherlands. To reach the project aim, the project defined the following sub-objectives:1) To learn about student based innovation labs in the Netherlands and Denmark;2) To transfer, mutually learn and disseminate knowledge about student based innovation labs;3) To establish cross sectoral, student-based innovation platforms (Innovation labs) linking universities, intermediaries (innovation and sustainability agents), local industries and stakeholders; 4) To link education with practical innovation projects by engaging university students and teachers to work on practical, multidisciplinary sustainability and social issues on the selected practical issues, creating together new innovative projects or ventures which benefit the issues of sustainability or social challenges, as a part of their bachelor or master education;5) To develop and carry out 4-5 student projects for Innovation labs in each partner university;6) To disseminate project results.Regarding number and profile of participants, there were 8 organizations in the partnership: Foundation for Society (FS, NGO, Latvia); SEI Tallinn (SEIT, NGO, Estonia), Interfusion Services Ltd (IFSS, SME, Cyprus); Vidzeme University (VA, university, Latvia); Sticthing NHL (NHL,university, the Netherlands); Aalborg University (AAU, university, Denmark), Cyprus University of Technology (CUT,university, Cyprus) and Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA, university, Estonia).Description of activitiesThe project carried out preparatory, implementation and dissemination activities: feasibility studies, prepared innovation lab (further – innolabs) development plans for universities; run staff training and study visits to the NL and DK; established innolabs in operation and tested them by running student projects in LV, EE and CY universities; run various dissemination and engagement activities, such as workshops, presentations; conference; website, student project contests and others). Each innolab in partner universities in EE, LV and CY run its first round of student innovation projects. Two methodological materials for establishment of innolabs and running them in universities have been produced.Results and impact attained- The innovation capacity has been raised in LV, EE and CY by establishment of innolabs in these universities, raising the competitiveness of the participant universities of their staff and students, the local regions, and the clients and stakeholders of these innolabs;- New knowledge generated during staff training events;- New business opportunities and creativity has been promoted and new links and relationships with clients of innolabs established;- The students have increased their skills of working together, producing results, presenting their results which shall help them into their working lives; - Sustainable innovations - emergence of innovative products, services, initiatives have been generated, for example, a product for Sports Ident company was produced by the VA student team,- Methodological materials produced will help other innolabs to be established and to be improved.Potential longer term benefits are achieved through ensuring the continuation of the innovation labs operation in future. This has been achieved by the top-management approved innolab development plans in the universities of LV, CY and EE. Therefore it is a well-grounded expectation that established innolabs will continue to work in future and will result in new, innovative activities, products, services, spin-offs and start-ups, thus raising innovation capacities, economic attractiveness and sustainable development of local regions and stimulating bottom-up innovation for the EU organisations at international level.