A three-day working meeting of the ENHANCE Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation working group brought together 18 participants to test and refine tools for sustainability-focused teaching and training.
Between 11 and 13 March 2026, 18 educators and trainers from ENHANCE member universities and the second cohort of the Train-the-Trainer program convened in Valencia for an intensive three-day working meeting hosted at StartUPV. The session formed part of ENHANCE's ongoing work on Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation (SEI) in the ENHANCE+ project — focusing on creating and disseminating knowledge on designing and executing SEI initiatives and evaluating and categorising tools in the Sustainability Atlas toolbox by application type, user group, and sector.
Day one introduced two foundational approaches — back-casting and Life Cycle Analysis for startups — before the group headed to the Fallas Festival Ninot Exhibition. Day two centred on the Sustainability Atlas toolbox, with focus group sessions in the morning followed by visits to two UPV spin-offs in Paterna: Solatom (solar boilers for industrial heat generation) and Cosmos Engineering (real-time remote concrete strength monitoring). Day three brought breakout workshops on aligning learning objectives with SEI tools, adapting tools to different contexts, and fostering teaching and research collaborations, closing with a visit to the Albufera Natural Park.
The input gathered across all sessions will directly inform the next iteration of the Sustainability Atlas toolbox and the Train-the-Trainer programme, making both more practical and better aligned with the needs of educators across our partner universities.
This working meeting reflects ENHANCE's broader commitment to embedding sustainability into entrepreneurial mindsets, education, and research — and to building the shared capacity our universities need to drive systemic, sustainability-oriented change.
