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:
Incubation Programme
The BIKE-HEI Incubation Programme offers early-stage startups and university spin-offs a fast-track, two-month pathway to strengthen their business strategy, validate their innovation, and accelerate growth.
Delivered by the four BIKE-HEI partner universities, the programme combines personalised guidance with the expertise of mentors drawn from dynamic regional innovation ecosystems.
Startups begin with an in-depth diagnostic to identify their most urgent development needs. They then co-design a tailored roadmap and receive targeted one-to-one mentoring sessions focused on business model refinement, market readiness, and access to funding and partnerships. Each edition concludes with a progress assessment and clear recommendations to guide the next stages of growth.
Key benefits for participating startups:
Personalised support
through a structured diagnosis and tailored roadmap.
Specialised mentoring
from experienced innovation and entrepreneurship experts.
Ongoing guidance and accompaniment
to navigate their next steps according to their growth pathway.
Female Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
Green & Digital
The BIKE-HEI Female Entrepreneurship Bootcamp – Green & Digital is an intensive 1.5-day training experience designed to empower women students, researchers and aspiring entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into impactful, sustainable and technologically enabled business projects.
Hosted at the University of Alicante Science Park, the programme combines creativity, innovation methods and practical use of AI tools to help participants structure, validate and communicate their entrepreneurial ideas.
Through hands-on teamwork, inspirational talks and guided exercises, participants learn to apply methodologies such as Lean Startup and Design Thinking, design their first prototypes with AI tools like Lovable, and connect with a community of women committed to driving green and digital transformation. The bootcamp fosters both skills and confidence, while offering direct interaction with mentors and professionals from the regional innovation ecosystem.
Key benefits for participants:
Practical tools and methodologies
to ideate, validate and prototype innovative business ideas.
Hands-on experience with AI
to accelerate creativity and digital prototyping.
A supportive network and personalised guidance
to accompany participants in their next steps as emerging women entrepreneurs.