The second meeting of the “Smart4Future” consortium to support innovation in entrepreneurship at higher education institutions, funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), was held in Istanbul. The host of this meeting was colleagues from the renowned Sabanci University in Turkey. The topic of the meeting was the next phase in the development of a project aimed at encouraging and fostering entrepreneurship among students, professors, and non-teaching staff at higher education institutions. LINK Educational Alliance took this opportunity to present the content of a 4-day training for students in the field of entrepreneurship and advanced IT technologies within the upcoming LINK2job employment fair in early December of this year. The subject of the presentation was also a working demonstration of the memorandum of understanding among stakeholders in the entrepreneurship process in the academia-research-industry relationship.
In addition to our company, the following partner organizations participated in the work of the “Smart4Future” consortium: Algebra University (Croatia), University of Naples (Italy), Griffith College (Ireland), Sabanci University (Turkey), National University of Kyiv (Ukraine), Mentorec (Portugal), and Infobip (Croatia). Representing LINK Educational Alliance were colleagues Aleksandra Borović (project coordinator of the ICE Projects Center) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nevenka Popović Šević (FCA, ITS, LINKgroup).