UNITeD - funding for an entrepreneurship- and innovation -project in Baltic Collaboration!

University of Jyväskylä participates in EIT-HEI project on entrepreneurship and innovation. The project runs from May 2023 to July 2024 and aims to strengthen the entrepreneurship and multidisciplinarity of the participating higher education institutions, develop innovation and entrepreneurship education, and create innovation partnerships.
Published
25.5.2023

“Universities for deep tech and entrepreneurship” (UNITeD) -project received funding at the beginning of May and is currently in the starting phase. The home base of the project at the University of Jyväskylä is Research and Innovation Services (TIP), but the School of Business and Economics (JSBE), the IT Faculty, the university's investment company Unifund and, in terms of entrepreneurship and student cooperation, Career Services (TEP) are also involved. Project partners are:

  • Vilnius University, Lithuania – Project Lead
  • University of Jyväskylä
  • University of Tartu
  • Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
  • Tallinn University
  • Tallinn University of Technology

The UNITeD project aims to develop the strategy work of the partner universities related to entrepreneurship and innovation activities, to implement innovation activities throughout the partner universities, and to cooperate more closely with high-tech companies and operators. For the University of Jyväskylä, the project's associated partner is the Jyväskylä Startup Factory.

UNITeD project also aims to cooperate at least with the FORTHEM and FITFORTHEM projects, Talent Boost and Talent Hub, Yritystehdas, EduFutura and the ICT TKKIO ecosystem at the interface of entrepreneurship, researchers, students and innovation activities. The project will also take advantage of the results of the recently completed innovation network and logistics project IVELO.

Read more in the project brochure!