"The project objective is to create for partner universities new type of platform for collaboration with enterprises. The developing platform serves as a sustainable set of value added collaborative activities with enterprises in invention and improvement of product/services. The main feature of the platform is an easy access for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to universities' and alumni’s' expertise in design research, prototyping, engineering, materials, technologies, and product/service development methodologies. Core of the platform is industrial design and innovation management practices that integrate universities', SMEs and alumni’s expertise around building product/services prototypes, and follow on commercial validations. The main feature is realized by the following outcomes/outputs to develop in the frames of joint project: (1) Trainings and executive programs to improve new product/service development competences of enterprises' staff:- Trainings in innovation management and design research instruments and methodologies: ""design thinking approach"", ""TRIZ"", ""Rapid prototyping"", ""agile instruments to manage new product development"", - Executive program ""New Product/Service Development"". (2) Facilities in partner universities integrated into “Collaborative Open Innovation Labs"" with the following functional zones:- Zone for co-creation teams' work over concepts development, brainstorming, raw prototyping, and coordination meetings. - Zone for developing skills in rapid prototyping.- Zone for entrepreneurial co-creation activities in developing and validating business concepts over new product/service.(3) Management procedures and services among “Collaborative Open Innovation Labs” for multi-country co-creation activities in developing and validating concept of new product/service at other (cross-boarder) markets;(4) Dissemination of accumulated expertise and project experience among universities."

The modern education is changing its technologies and standards. It is to be flexible, adaptive, international, student-centered and targeted at innovations in real world. Moblity to best EU schools has become expensive for Non-EU citizens and less students have chances to come to international universities. It results in lower internationalization experience for EU students too. In addition the feasibility of cooperation between EU and Non-EU universities is declined, which can affect on socio-economical partnership of the countries. The project goal is to enforce the cooperation between EU and Non-EU universities in the field of Industrial innovation on the advanced open eLearning platform for blended, flipped and project based education. The platform will be the place where students, professors and industrial experts can meet each other. Hundreds of standardized, selected or developed courses under the umbrella of Industrial Innovation will be offered through the platform. SMEs and big industry and business will get the direct access to the advanced professional teaching services as well as to the community of students and professors. The latter is the ecosystem for project based teaching activities and crowd sourcing. EU project members share their experience in flipped/blended and project based education and help partner universities to establish the methodology and laboratories for the manufacturing of eLearning elements.The project contributes to the modernization of Higher education through its digitalization, internationalization and closer links to new realities in industry, business technology driven entrepreneurship. , The higher efficiency and compatibility of courses among consortium universities and other interested institutions will be the motivator and instrument for student exchange and new joint or double degree MSc programs.