In late October, we gathered in Valencia for our final Learn-Innovate-Sell-Succeed (LISS24) -Project -consortium meeting.

Our Erasmus+ project, coordinated by Turku University of Applied Sciences, has brought B2B sales and innovation education into practice at universities in Armenia and Georgia: six Sales Labs, new courses, sales and innovation competitions, and stronger university–business cooperation.

For me, the relationships built through this work are just as important. Thank you for sharing your expertise, challenging our thinking and turning plans into teaching and learning.

A special thank you to our hosts Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Elena De la Poza and Ruijing Wang for welcoming us to beautiful Valencia!

Warm thanks to our partner teams:

Armenia: National Polytechnic University of Armenia, Armenian National Agrarian University and National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia.

Georgia: Georgian Technical University, Akaki Tsereteli State University and Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University.

And of course to our European colleagues at Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

A personal thank you to Ruben Aghgashyan, Lida Aghajanyan, Lilit Ghazaryan, Varazdat Hovhannisyan, Tatevik Yedoyan PHD, PMP®, Gizo Partskhaladze, Boris Gitolendia, Eduard Demetrashvili, Giorgi Mikiashvili, Luka Kemoklidze, Huaan Fan, Alexander Eigner, Pedro Fuentes, Gabriel Songel, our external evaluator Francis Ries and all the others I can not tag here :).

And, of course, thank you also to my Turku UAS colleagues Timo Holopainen, Pinja Palm, Harri Lappalainen and Taru Kankaanpää for their work throughout the project.

In Valencia workshop, we looked ahead to future collaboration and focused on f.ex. how the methods, competitions and Sales Labs can continue to serve students and our partners beyond the funding period.

Like Timo loves to say: This is not the end. This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. It has been a pleasure working with you. ♥️

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Arto Kuuluvainen

PhD (Econ.) | Research Group Leader