Project aims to increase students’ entrepreneurship/business skills, broaden University-Business Cooperation in RIS region, support EIT-labelled MSc-s and boost employment of the RM graduates leveraging regional brain-drain. 21 matchmaking events will be organized, 367 students will conduct internship in 300 hosting-organizations, 640 individuals will complete an online training and 25-40 interns will be employed at the hosting-organizations.

UMANE (Universities for huMAN-centered Entrepreneurship) project is aimed at fostering institutional change and developing innovative services and methodology to support human-centered innovation and entrepreneurship within the universities of the consortium. UMANE will allow HEIs to undertake the necessary institutional change adopting a methodology that mimics the two-stage process of human-centered innovation: exploration and prototyping.

Exploration refers to the first phase of the project, the exposure to the human-centered approach that will help HEIs to adopt a new approach and reframe existing activities. Prototyping refers to the second phase of the project, the re-design phase that will allow HEIs to enhance the entrepreneurial mindset, programs and activities, organizational mechanisms, and structures.

More specifically, the consortium’s main objectives are to:

- develop and share a human-centered methodology to innovation and entrepreneurship within the consortium;

- re-design and implement innovation and entrepreneurial educational programs based on human-centered methodology;

- develop support tools, mechanisms, and services in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship within each HEI that can lead to a mindset change;

- develop a set of KPIs able to measure those competencies generated and the new mindset activated by the initiative, both at personal and organizational level;

- develop impact-driven international partnerships between HEIs, triangle partners, and business;

- strengthen collaborations with local nodes of EIT KICs, such as Raw Material, Manufacturing, and develop new linkages with other EIT KICs, such as Digital, Climate, and InnoEnergy KICs.