Within the IFAD-funded SKiM project, CIHEAM Bari in collaboration with ICARDA organised a training at CIHEAM Bari from 21 to 23 October. In compliance with the Covid-19 provisions, the programme was reduced from five to three intensive days, with morning and afternoon sessions.
The training focused on the “Third Mission” of research and academic institutions through an innovative approach looking at the three functions of Technology Transfer Offices: the creation of new companies (start-ups and spin-offs), cooperation between universities and the business system, and intellectual property rights management.
Like the other SKiM courses, it is organised as an open-access learning path for officers from Morocco, Moldova and Sudan, and can be reused by national partners after the end of the project.