The VET4DATACOOPERATION project is built on a consortium of six organisations from Germany, Austria, Slovakia and North Macedonia. Each partner brings a distinct and complementary type of expertise from data space architecture and eLearning technology to SME development and industry networking. Together, they form a partnership designed to address a single challenge: making trusted data cooperation accessible and actionable for European manufacturing companies and VET institutions.
The project spans five work packages, each led by a different partner, ensuring that tasks are distributed according to where the relevant expertise sits. What follows is an introduction to the organisations behind the work.
Meet the consortium - Part 1
INI-Novation GmbH - Project Coordinator (Germany)
INI-Novation GmbH is an international business consulting company specialising in innovation management, education and technology commercialisation. The organisation operates with a core team supported by a network of more than 200 contracted experts and has contributed to numerous Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ consortia in the development of VET learning content. Recent engagements include programmes addressing EU AI Act compliance and digital transformation in agriculture.
As project coordinator, INI-Novation leads the overall management of VET4DATACOOPERATION and contributes significantly to training module development, the Good Practice Guidebook and stakeholder engagement across all work packages.
EIT Manufacturing East GmbH — Dissemination Lead (Austria)
EIT Manufacturing East GmbH is an industry-focused innovation network connecting organisations across the full European manufacturing value chain, from SMEs and large industrial companies to academia, research institutes and the public sector. The organisation brings proven infrastructure for learning, collaboration and knowledge exchange directly into the project.
Within VET4DATACOOPERATION, EIT Manufacturing East leads all dissemination and communication activities, including the project's visual identity, website and blog, newsletters, press releases and social media channels. The team also leads the exploitation of project results, working to ensure that training content reaches manufacturing professionals and SMEs across Europe through established platforms and networks. EIT Manufacturing East also contributes to training content development and supports alignment of project outputs with Gaia-X-compliant data sharing ecosystems.
A partnership built to deliver
Each of the six partners holds a defined leadership role, while contributing across multiple work packages. INI-Novation coordinates, EIT Manufacturing East communicates, deltaDAO provides technical grounding, Scheer IMC ensures learning quality and scalability, IIC generates knowledge resources and MEDF connects the project to the SME community it is ultimately designed to serve.
The full training programme of five interactive modules available in English, German, Slovak and Macedonian will be openly accessible to manufacturing professionals and VET providers across Europe.
More updates will follow as the project reaches its next milestones. To stay informed, follow the official LinkedIn page.
