This short guide explains how to use the HEInnovate Action Planning Board and Work Package Planning Board to turn self-assessment insights into concrete institutional development plans. It introduces both templates, shows how to map activities and organise them into work packages, and provides practical steps for collaborative action planning and...
These are chapters from the Training Manual, providing advice and ideas on how to run the three different types of HEInnovate workshops, set the agenda and whom to invite.
This structured template helps groups cluster related activities into Work Packages, assign responsible leaders or units, and set timeframes. It ensures activities are organised, coordinated, and ready for implementation. To be used after the Action Planning Board – Dimensions . For use during onsite workshops, print in A1 format.
A visual tool to define your institution’s main objective in a chosen HEInnovate dimension and map potential activities into short-, medium-, and long-term actions. It helps transform ideas from the Action Cards into concrete steps. For use during onsite workshops, print in A1 format.
You can use the action sheet to capture the actions agreed on by participants during the workshops.
These cards will help you translate your self-assessment results into actionable programmes. You can download the cards and explore your entrepreneurial profile.
The University of Bayreuth pursues a clear regional transfer strategy: it sees itself as an innovation driver for the Upper Franconia region and is establishing a highly networked innovation ecosystem between the university, companies, research institutions, and societal stakeholders. The focus is on the transfer of knowledge, ideas, and technology...
By Stylianos Yiatros Abstract: The EUt+ Alliance used the HEInnovate self-assessment to understand institutional strengths, build a shared innovation vision, and shape the Inno-EUt+ project under the EIT HEI Initiative. By engaging academics, administrators, and students, the alliance developed evidence-based priorities, strengthened collaboration...
By Martin Bliemel Abstract: At the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), HEInnovate played a central role in developing a comprehensive innovation strategy. By combining self-assessment with collaborative workshops involving 38 participants across multiple divisions, UTS used the 56 action cards across all eight HEInnovate dimensions to identify...
This comparative case study explores how three HEIs—Hibernia College, Ludwigsburg University of Education, and PH Lucerne—advance internationalisation through virtual mobility. They use initiatives like COIL, Blended Intensive Programs, and hybrid exchanges to enable global collaboration without travel, aligning with goals such as expanding access...
Linköping University (LiU), a young higher education institution in southern Sweden, has systematically built capacity for entrepreneurship and innovation. The University’s organisation as such is deliberately interdisciplinary in order to foster innovation: twelve Departments offer research and education to all of the University’s four Faculties...
by Juliana Vassileva Abstract: New Bulgarian University (NBU) used HEInnovate to evaluate and improve its entrepreneurial ecosystem. Involving students and faculty, the tool helped identify current activities, inspire new ideas, and encourage reflection. It boosted teamwork within the university, project-based additional initiatives and connections...
This case study provides an update on the approach to entrepreneurship and innovation taken by the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU)1, representing the status at the end of 2024. The original case study, was written in 2015. Since then, KTU has developed its entrepreneurial profile and approach further. It developed its curricular teaching of...
Entrepreneurship is part of the mission of the University of Bologna (UNIBO), and the University also seeks to develop entrepreneurship education. Until March 2024, UNIBO coordinated the project Educators for Impact, funded by the European Commission’s Erasmus+ programme. The project aimed to empower educators and students to solve societal...
by Mercedes Pérez Millán Abstract: The Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Universidad Loyola is using the HEInnovate self-assessment and action cards to improve awareness at the university about their activities, find new ways of measuring impact, and build an Entrepreneurship Committee. What is your role, and how does your institution support...