SPINTeams

• Name: SPINTeams (University Spin-offs Alliance: From the idea to the market through mentoring and transnational entrepreneurial teams)
• LCCI position: Partner
• Total budget: 995 176.00 EUR
• Project period: 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2023
• Programme: Erasmus+
• Partner countries: Spain, Latvia, Italy, Austria, Croatia
• Website: www.spinteams.eu

Universities are the main source of innovation and solutions to challenges that can be marketable. Many start-ups and University spin-offs are founded at European Universities, but when it comes to sustainability and growth capacity, after 3 years more than 50 % of startups fail. The main reasons are the lack of profitability and growth capacity. The origin of this failure comes from the roots itself of the company founded: the entrepreneurial and business skills of the founders, the complementarity of skills of the founders and their teams, their ability to find support networks and effective, bottom-up start-ups support ecosystem and the capacity of going international and build international cooperation.

Project aim:

• Improving entrepreneurial and business skills of the would-be entrepreneurs at partner HEIs, as well as their current and future Spin-offs and Startups, to achieve more and more sustainable and growing businesses. The project will act with a bottom-up approach acting twofold: impacting the practitioners and the HEIs.

Planned project activities:

• A collection of training webinars for creating the role of  "Entrepreneurship Coaches" at partners HEIs.
• A complete training course for improving entrepreneurial and business skills addressed to advanced students, PhD students, researchers (would be entrepreneurs or spin-off/start-ups founders).
• A  handbook "Building entrepreneurial support ecosystems for HEIs".
• A guide "mentoring and peer learning methods for new entrepreneurs support".
• International entrepreneurs' cooperation platform to foster international cooperation, teamwork, networking, and mentoring.

Lead partner:

• Chamber of Commerce Industry and Services of Terrassa (Spain)

• Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain)
• Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Latvia)
• University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy)
• Institute for Economic Promotion (Austria)
• European Grants International Academy (Italy)
• Poligest SL (Spain)
• Turiba University (Latvia)
• Tera Tehnopolis, Ltd (Croatia)
• University of Graz (Austria)