<< Background >>Research innovations often remain locked within research organisations.Due to a dearth of entrepreneurial skill sets, researchers have little understanding about: (1) how to bring these innovations to market; (2) how to generate revenue; or (3) how to create important new areas for sustainable employment.The STARTED project aims to reinforce and structure a European network for promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in the R&D area.<< Objectives >>The STARTED Project aims to lead to key changes in teaching and learning approaches to entrepreneurship for researchers and build strong and durable bridges between HEIs and businesses.Enable researchers to discover customer needs in different sectors in order to better shape research outputs and encourage close interactions with businesses concerned (startups, new business units).Help researchers to develop a more professional, complete and ‘real-life condition’ approach that will federate<< Implementation >>Targeting the six regions highlighted in our needs analysis, as these are ripe for opportunity given the fact that there are already high levels of potentially commercialisable R&D in these areas, also bearing in mind that there are many other regions in Europe that could and will later benefit from this approach.To tackle the scope and geographical spread of the project, we have chosen a diverse group of 6 partners from four different countries.<< Results >>The STARTED project aims to define and deliver new courses and methods for teaching entrepreneurship development to researchers, with knowledge exchange between HEIs and businesses. In order to execute the project goals within the 36 month project timeline, a rigorous work package methodology was drawn up and executed. Results consist of extensive needs analysis, adapting new entrepreneurship frameworks for researchers, creating tools to help them validate their ventures.

The overall concept of MY-GATEWAY builds around the growth potential boost of CEE start-ups on a pan-European level by exploiting the Consortium partners' Startup Europe experience (as former coordinators and partners of the ICT-13 projects) and by implementing actions aimed at creating new opportunities and synergies within and beyond the MY-GATEWAY’s ecosystem. As a result of the project the CEE start-ups and the startup support organizations representing them will have better access to networks, finance and talent and will acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to maximise their growth potential. Moreover, the project will actively contribute to the expansion of the Startup Europe Community by opening the GATE of the Startup Europe to the Balkans. MY-GATEWAY involved the leading startup support organizations from Serbia, Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina (as members of its Balkan Committee) who will continuously follow up the project activities, facilitate the knowledge transfer - MY-GATEWAY KEY - to the Balkan region and mobilize the Balkan start-ups to set up the "Startup Europe comes to the Balkans" Network.