Objectives
HEI Blue aims to promote entrepreneurial education and strengthen University-Business cooperation for the sustainable development of the South-West Indian Ocean Region through blue entrepreneurship.
It specifically aims:
To promote blue entrepreneurship in selected South-West Indian Ocean countries by transferring best practice approaches and facilitating innovative learning methodologies in entrepreneurship education.
To strengthen local innovation ecosystems by creating physical and virtual environments oriented to boost collaboration among Higher Education Institutions, public administration, civil society and business actors working across the Blue Economy.
HEI Blue has been developed on the basis of 4 fundamental pillars to support European knowledge transfer and capacity building to the South West Indian Ocean:
It has been conceived using State-of-theart methodologies and techniques.
Ensures a significant impact on the institutions of the South West Indian Ocean.
Addressing key regional priorities for the South West Indian Ocean ensures a significant impact on the partner institutions during the lifetime of the project and at a wider regional scale beyond the project duration.
HEI Blue is strongly oriented to building capacity in and fostering the dialogue about the relevance of a sustainable Blue Economy in the SWIO with the support of innovation and entrepreneurship from the younger generations.
Activities
To ensure timely, on budget and on target completion of all project objectives, activities and deliverables.
- Task 1.1: Establishment of project management tools and procedures
- Task 1.2: Regular Project management
- Task 1.3: Quality assurance Implementation and Monitoring
To pave the to the successful communication of the project activities within SWIO.
- Task 2.1: Visual identity and communication tools
- Task 2.2: Official project Kick- off and Outreach
To promote Blue Entrepreneurship in selected South-West Indian Ocean Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
- Task 3.1: State of the Art
- Task 3.2: Discovery
- Task 3.3: Blue Entrepreneurship Training Plans
To guarantee the operation of the Blue Innovation Virtual Offices (BIVOs).
- Task 4.1: Blue Innovation Virtual Offices
- Task 4.2: Purchase and instalment
- Task 4.3: BIVOs Launch
Design and development of innovative training activities and materials to implement the BET Plans.
- Task 5.1: Training Task Force
- Task 5.2: Training resources
- Task 5.3: Train of Trainers
- Task 5.4: Training for students
Designing and testing a Blue Accelerator Program targeting university students from SWIO partner universities.
- Task 6.1: Set up of the Blue Accelerator
- Task 6.2: Bootcamp
- Task 6.3: Mentoring
- Task 6.4: Student Awards
To ensure the sustainability and transferability of project results.
- Task 7.1: Sustainability working groups
- Task 7.2: Final Event and Regional Round Table
- Task 7.3: The Paths to Blue Universities
Ensuring the outreach of the project activities and results among internal and external targets.
- Task 8.1: Communication Strategy
- Task 8.2: Internal dissemination campaigns
- Task 8.2: External dissemination campaigns
Partners
Apart from the academia, represented by 7 South-West Indian Ocean and 3 European universities, the consortium also brings together 2 macro-regional actors from key industry and decision-making bodies.
