There are two main barriers for cooperation in innovation process; low awareness about necessity of cooperating for innovation and limited competences of the organizations/institutions in innovation environment. Terms like innovation or innovation management are highly new for the SMEs in the region. The process of innovating products, services, processes and business models is often interrupted with lack of financing instruments. High quality consulting services about innovation management are not provided to SMEs. Majority of the SMEs are not aware of the specific tool of Horizon 2020 namely the SME Instrument which aims to fund and support innovation and commercialization activities of SMEs. Therefore to deal with these types of problems and shortcomings, our consortium will perform activities in the context of “enhancing the innovation management capacities of SMEs” and “Key Account Management Services”. The first activity’s main objective is helping SMEs to unlock their potential by better managing the innovation process. That will be performed with a diagnostic innovation management capacity audit followed by an action plan which is a mixed typed of different support activities. “Key Account Management Services” focus solely on the beneficiaries of the SME Instrument. The objective of the service is helping those companies who pass the evaluation procedure for innovation projects supported by the SME Instrument on commercializing their ideas and thus providing support for turning innovative ideas/research to commercial successes. That will be performed with a coaching programme on the basis of project realization and leveraging partnerships to acquire know-how and funding.

Aim of the project is to become a true one-stop-shop for business and innovation support along the entire value chain, providing its services in the proposed region the context of COSME and HORIZON 2020 Programme and in line with the Europe 2020 strategy. innovation support services will help strengthen the competitiveness and sustainability of regional enterprises. Proposed project will include two acitivity type which are “Key account management under the SME Instrument of Horizon 2020” and “Services to enhance the innovation management capacities of SMEs”

The management of refugee crisis is one of the most challenging problems of EU and some other countries due to its complex social, political and economic stages. This process requires rapid and effective steps to form necessary conditions for the integration of immigrants into society. In Turkey, more than 4 million refugees live in Turkey and five thousands of them accommodates in Düzce. One of the most fundamental measures to be taken for complete and durable integration is the inclusion of immigrants into labor market and ultimately economic welfare of these people. In order to learn, search, socialize, develop their abilities and knowledge for new job opportunities, get vocational educations and successfully carry out the job they find; the language barriers in front of a healthier and faster integration process have to destroyed. However, most of these people can’t get a working permission. Although a definite part can achieve a faster and easier inclusion into labor market after destroying language barriers, the other part that form the bigger part can't work due to not being able to get a work permission requiring a long process or mostly results in as negatively. Therefore, these people have to be a seasonal worker in agriculture and livestock sector or being an employer. At this point, there is a big need to develop the entrepreneurship skill of the immigrants. Within the project, we developed language modules that can carry the beneficiaries from A1 to A2 level, shared these modules via a platform, created a practical handbook for urgent help in daily situations with daily structures and dialogues and developed a comprehensive entrepreneurship training module. The outputs were designed with four related EU partner to get more innovative and international results that are suitable for the target group needs and profiles. All the good practices, experiences and innovations in partner countries was searched, the outputs were developed, then the project outputs were disseminated with local and international events. With better communication abilities, immigrants can integrate into the city they live, local people can communicate with these people more easily and all these outcomes provide a more peaceful society. With better language and entrepreneurship skills, they can now look for job opportunities, include in vocational courses and effectively work in worklife. With developed entrepreneurship skills they can be more active, equipped and create new job opportunities for themselves and maybe for other local people. These effects can be observed in all partner countries and with dissemination activities the project outputs and effects were shared at international and EU level. During dissemination and evaluation activities, it was obvious that the outputs will be effective and used by many related organizations and immigrants in order to develop their langauge and entrepreneurship skills.

"""Statistical Data on Women Entrepreneurs in Europe"" (European Comission, September 2014) show that women entrepreneurs constituted 31% of all entrepreneurs in European Union. These statistics persist in 2018 and women make up only one third of all entrepreneurs in Science and Technology sectors, reflecting the ratio of female students studying Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) at higher education institutes. The 2011 EU Modernisation Agenda lists; stimulating the development of entrepreneurial, creative and innovation skills in all disciplines, promoting through more interactive learning environments, strengthening the knowledge-transfer infrastructures and enhancing their capacity to engage in start-ups, as priority areas for higher education institutions. InnoWomEnt Project, is a strategic partnership of Bursa Technical University (Bursa, Turkey), Politecnico di Torino (Torino, Italy), I3P - The Innovative Companies Incubator of Politecnico di Torino (Torino, Italy), Silesian University of Technology (Gliwice, Poland), Technopark Gliwice (Gliwice, Poland) and KOSGEB - Small and Medium Enterprises Development Organization (Bursa, Turkey) established with the following objectives:• Raise awareness about the gender gap in technological fields and encourage female students to study Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics,• Improve transversal/entrepreneurial skills (creativity, analysis, critical thinking, risk taking, digital literacy, foreign langauage speaking, problem solving, and etc.) through curricular courses, seminars, workshops and teaching/learning mobilities,• Develop learning modules for all prospective entrepreneurs, and• Create a roadmap for an efficient Entrepreneurial Ecosystem where prospective entrepreneurs could reach the network, training, mentoring and support that they strive for.Development of transversal/entrepreneurial skills has been encouraged through workshops on 'Entrepreneurial Training' and ‘Innovative Entrepreneurship’, where experts from partner organizations gave seminars on; invention, innovation, women in STEM fields, technology transfer, intellectual property rights, business plan, status of women in society, leadership and entrepreneurship. Twelve female engineering students were placed at international high technology start-ups for a period of 6 weeks as part of the 'Transnational Entrepreneurial Internship Program' and they have been awarded ECTS credits for having completed the program successfully. Entrepreneurial training was embedded in Bursa Technical University's curriculum through a course titled ‘Basics of Innovative Entrepreneurship’ (taught in English). The students who succeeded the course were granted ECTS credits and the right to apply for KOSGEB's (Small and Medium Enterprises Development and Organization) Entrepreneurial Funding. A book titled ‘Experiences of the Innovative Women Entrepreneurs of the Future’, which presents a comprehensive guideline to not only women but everyone who is willing to set up their own enterprises and an e-book titled ‘A Roadmap to Successful Incubator’, which aims to function as a manual not only for prospective entrepreneurs but also for organizations willing to support start-ups were published. All the information gathered through this project are covered in these two books.InnoWomEnt Videoclips were produced and broadcasted to raise awareness and encourage more female students to study Scince, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and start their own businesses. The outputs of this project are compiled and shared by the society without any limitations at the project website (www.innowoment.org) which functions as an e-learning module. The ‘InnoWomEnt’ Project Logo symbolizes a Women in Victory pose."

The proposed project addresses the action for “Establishing services “Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs” in the Enterprise Europe Network” to improve the innovation management capacity of SMEs. In the period covering the years 2015-2021, Tier 1 and Tier 2 services were offered to SMEs by EEN Anatolia Consortium. (The contents of Tier 1 and Tier 2 were respectively generic promotion, networking services given by EEN staff and specialized advisory services given by innovation advisers). The activities foreseen under this proposal is to give Tier 3 services to SMEs. 53 full enhancing SMEs’ innovation management capacity service packages and 10 Key Account Management service packages will be offered to SME’s till the end of 2019 and every service package is foreseen.