SMART RURAL SMART HIESE: Structuring program to support entrepreneurship and rural innovation

Streamline a structuring project for entrepreneurship and rural innovation, leveraging HIESE as a preferred space for the creation of innovative ideas and business initiatives associated with the rural world, in a low density territory (Penela municipality)
To affirm the HIESE Habitat of Business Innovation in the Strategic Sectors, in Penela, as a privileged space for the incubation and acceleration of rural-based companies, through: 1) the generation of opportunities and diffusion of applied technological knowledge and 2) the capture and training of new ones entrepreneurs with innovative solutions. (consortium made with IPN - Instituto Pedro Nunes and Município de Penela (PARTNER).
The strategic axes were operationalized from a set of 13 actions, which are articulated in order to obtain results:
Action 01: Technological Roadmap of the Rural World
Action 02: Smart Rural Knowledge / Rural Business Ideas Platform
Action 03: Good International Practices of Rural Innovation
Action 04: Participation in events and technology scouting
Action 05: Creativity and mentoring workshops
Action 06: Smart Rural Contest / Business Idea Contest
Action 07: Rural Open Days / Networking and Brokerage Sessions
Action 08: Smart Rural Congress
Action 09: Rural-Based Business Ideation Program
Action 10: HIESE management and operation model
Action 11: Scholarships for Young Entrepreneurs
Action 12: Promotion, monitoring and evaluation
Action 13: Communication and dissemination