Start your journey with the HEInnovate self-assessment. Create a group, invite colleagues, and gather perspectives from across your institution on the 8 key dimensions of innovation and entrepreneurship.


When everyone in your group completes their assessment, HEInnovate automatically aggregates the results — showing where opinions align and where they differ. This shared evidence base becomes the foundation for your next discussions and decisions.

Once your results are ready, bring people together to explore what they mean. Organise a workshop or discussion to ask: Why do these results look the way they do? Identify underlying causes, discuss differences, and agree on priorities for change.


You can invite representatives from each group that completed the self-assessment, or hold a smaller session — whatever fits your context.
This step helps your community build shared understanding, ownership, and commitment to action.

With insights and alignment in place, it’s time to design your strategic roadmap for change. Use HEInnovate’s Action Cards, planning templates, and case studies to decide what to do next.

Action Cards offer tailored recommendations and ideas based on your results, while templates help you translate them into concrete steps.

Now, put your plans into motion. Launch new initiatives, strengthen collaboration, and build capacity for entrepreneurship and innovation across your institution.

You can also use your HEInnovate Action Plan as the foundation for
an Innovation Vision Action Plan (IVAP) — eligible for EIT HEI Initiative funding, which offers access to European partnerships and networks.
And remember — transformation is ongoing.


Revisit HEInnovate regularly to repeat the self-assessment, reflect on progress, and update your action plan for continuous improvement.