🚀 Introducing Mind the Gap: From Research to Market-Ready Innovation

Mind the Gap brings together 7 partners—3 HEIs, 2 business partners, and 2 NGOs—from diverse European innovation regions to bridge the distance between academic breakthroughs and real-world impact.

🌐 Vision & Approach

Our goals are clear: (1) foster entrepreneurial skills among students and researchers, (2) strengthen universities’ capacity to support innovators, and (3) boost entrepreneurial activity across Europe. Guided by the 4Cs Framework, we connect academia, business, and policy to build a dynamic, inclusive innovation ecosystem.

🧩 Key Actions

1. Develop new entrepreneurial courses
2. Tailor PhD programs for innovation pathways
3. Integrate business acceleration within HEIs
4. Connect stakeholders across regions for faster knowledge flows

🌱 Strategic Alignment

We advance six expected outcomes—improved knowledge flows, enhanced skills, increased competence, more local talent, stronger entrepreneurship, and higher youth employability—supporting the New European Innovation Agenda, the European Green Deal, and the EIT HEI Initiative. Building on networks like CloudEARTHi, SEEDplus, and Inspiring the Minds, we reinforce Smart Specialisation Strategies, champion gender balance, open science, and ensure long-term sustainability.

If you are interested in the above mentioned and project ‘s theme aligns with your vision for development, the Mind the Gap consortium is looking for new staff members, with the following openings:

Course developer and training provider – entrepreneurship and engineering sciences

Task description:

🌐 Develop teaching materials in the field of Entrepreneurship;

🌐 Trains and mentors students in courses initiated by the project;

🌐 Participate in attracting and selection of students for the courses;

The ideal candidate:

🌟 Is an assistant professor or associate professor;

🌟 Has relevant research and teaching experience in fields relevant to Entrepreneurship, Innovation and engineering sciences;

🌟 Has previous experience working with students at TU-Varna;

🌟 Has previous experience working on national and international projects at TU-Varna;

Expert in national and budgetary funding

 Task description:

🌐 Aids the project team in studies related to entrepreneurship and innovation, providing financial expertise;

🌐 Provides assistance with developing budgets related to further development of the activities of the consortium in terms of project sustainability;

The ideal candidate:

🌟 Has relevant accounting experience and qualification;

🌟 Has previous experience working on national and international projects at TU-Varna;

Accountant

Task description:

🌐 Takes part in the accounting of the project;

🌐 Manages the financial documentation of the project;

The ideal candidate:

🌟 Has relevant accounting experience and qualification;

🌟 Has previous experience working on national and international projects at TU-Varna;

Student Communications & Outreach Officer

Task description:

🌐 Promote events, opportunities, and deadlines for engineering students & stakeholders;

🌐 Support the organization of project events by handling communication with interested parties;

🌐 Grow reach through list segmentation, ambassador networks, and targeted outreach;

🌐 Support data collection (surveys, event feedback) from project participants and relevant stakeholders;

The ideal candidate:

🌟 Proven record of boosting student engagement;

🌟 Proven record of organizing events for student audiences;

🌟 Bachelor’s or Master’s in an engineering field;

🌟 Experience in HEIs; familiarity with TU-Varna is an advantage.

If you are interested in any of those positions, please send an up-to-date CV in English to the project coordinator at Този имейл адрес е защитен от спам ботове. Трябва да имате пусната JavaScript поддръжка, за да го видите. no later than 24.09.2025, 11:00CET.