Support services

The support services of the BIKE-HEI project want to provide high-quality entrepreneurship education, fostering start-ups, spin-offs, and innovation-driven joint initiatives across the consortium and beyond. In this section, our stakeholders will be linked different tailored programmes to enhance innovation and entrepreneurial capacity within our partner HEIs ecosystems.

This service aims at strengthening BIKE-HEI’s long-term impact, encouraging institutions to tap into initiatives, methods, and funding opportunities to let their ventures grow.

Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship
BIKE-HEI Mentorship Pilot Programme

The Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship BIKE-HEI Mentorship Programme aims to translate knowledge into practice, fostering start-up initiatives, research commercialisation, and improving key skills for sustainable enterprise development.

The purpose of the programme is to transfer entrepreneurial knowledge from experienced professionals to students, academic, and non-academic University staff. 

Mentors include experienced entrepreneurs, industry experts, and senior academic staff with experience in technology transfer and entrepreneurship. The vision of the mentorship is to empower participants to transform their sustainable innovation ideas into validated, resilient, and investment-ready venture concepts.

The BIKE-HEI mentorship programme aims to transfer entrepreneurial knowledge, innovation practices, and business know-how from experienced professionals to the target groups with the following main aims:

to strengthen entrepreneurial and innovation skills and prepare for start-ups.

to support the valorisation of research results and foster entrepreneurial teaching methods.

to build institutional capacity in innovation management and collaboration with external partners.