Management and quality control will be lead by University of Tirana, who is responsible for the project management, and the development and implementation of a results-oriented project management plan to ensure actual delivery of planned outcomes and follow-up on time conduction of planned activities. This work will be executed in accordance with provisions of Grant Agreement and Programme Guide as well as Project Management Plan.

WP1 will cover the overall operational and financial management and monitoring and quality assurance and evaluation, in which case Quality control part will be unde r the coordination of Epoka university, which is a very experienced partner in quality assurance processes.

Work Package 2 builds on the needs analysis and data collection activities and based on the status quo of the current knowledge transfer and entrepreneurial infrastructure and capacities of the universities, but also on the innovation (research and commercialization) ecosystem, the Living Labs will be based.

These ecosystems include public and private entities (national and local government units, universities, research institutes, NGOs, companies, etc.), basically all participants and resources that are necessary for innovation.

This WP will serve as a basis for the following work packages. After the Hub staff has been trained (WP3), the other WP will build on their activities and inputs. These hubs will not be standalone centres, but will integrate the existing capacities utilising them through the Innovation Living Labs. The goal is to position them as one-stop-shops for cooperation with enterprises and support of students and academic staff to commercialise their research results and entrepreneurial ideas

This WP is crucial for the project success and sustainability of its results. The work package leader, UKIM will coordinate the EU universities in capacity building of the Sustainable Living Labs through organisation of study visits and trainings, as well as the peer-mentoring.

This work package aims at the development of the Portfolio of instruments and services of each Sustainable Living Labs. Since each university and Hub has different needs, capacities, strategy and business plan, for each Sustainable Living Labs tailor-made Portfolio of instruments and services will be developed.

Based on the developed portfolio, the call for projects with enterprises will be published and the selected enterprises will receive free of charge support in their innovative and/or entrepreneurial project. Each university will implement at least 3 projects in which at least one representative from the academic staff and at least three students will be involved

EntreEdu Development Programme for PCUs university staff and students based on the EntreComp Framework - In the frame of this work package FHJ and UKZ will analyze the current (starting May 2021) state-of-the-art openly available materials developed in other projects such as: EntreComp for Teachers, Erasmus+ project focused on development of open access Entrepreneurial learning tools and methods for entrepreneurial educators.

Piloting will be conducted in late 2020, early 2021; European Training Programme in Entrepreneurship for Educators, a Tender by the EASME for development of training programme in entrepreneurship, upgrade the skills and pedagogical tools of educators within higher education institutions. The teaching materials and the toolkit (project still not started at the CBHE submission deadline) should be also available latest at early 2021.

Dissemination will ensure to disseminate the idea & the results of this project to the wider community, in order to engage as many interested parties as possible in the project activities & to ensure the support of all the stakeholders & sustainability.