SMART Innovation for Next Generations

The SMART Project—SMART Innovation Centres for the Development of Innovative and Entrepreneurial Thinking to Facilitate the Development of Sustainable Smart Solutions in the Western Balkans—was implemented from 2022 to 2025 under the Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education (CBHE) programme. Bringing together fourteen partner institutions from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia, Italy, and Germany, the project set out to strengthen the role of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
as drivers of regional innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development. The project’s core objective was to empower Western Balkan universities to move beyond their traditional educational role and become active contributors to smart specialisation strategies (S3) and innovation ecosystems. Guided by the Quintuple Helix innovation model, SMART promoted collaboration between academia, industry, government, civil society, and the natural environment—ensuring that innovation is sustainable, inclusive, and regionally grounded.

Source: https://komora.me/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/SMART-Joint-Publication.pdf#:~:text=%E2%80%A2%20A%20comprehensive%20comparative%20analysis,data%20gaps%2C%20and%20governance%20challenges%2C