Are you a researcher or TTO professional seeking to strengthen the valorisation of your project results? Are you unsure whether to publish, protect, license, standardise, or spin off? You know about the EU Codes of Practice on knowledge valorization, but struggle to implement them in real-life cases and turning publication, protection and ownership decisions into structured and credible impact pathways?
If these questions resonate with you, IAM4RE mentoring services are here to support you!
Funded by the European Commission, IAM4RE provides tailored, free-of-charge mentoring Public Research Organizations and Academic Institutions that strives to strengthen their intellectual asset management and knowledge valorisation practices.
Through expert-led, case-based mentoring participating organisations receive practical guidance aligned with their specific strategic goals and institutional challenges. The focus is on implementation — working directly with your real projects, real intellectual assets, and real decision-making contexts.
The mentoring services addresses five recurring IAM challenges and include:
- Strategic Intellectual Asset Management Planning. Supports early, structured decision-making on how intellectual assets generated in a project or portfolio should be managed across their lifecycle.
- Non-Patentable Intellectual Assets Management and Valorization. Operationalises valorisation pathways for intellectual assets that cannot or should not be patented (data, software, methods, knowhow, networks). It gives technology transfer offices and researchers a legitimate, structured way to demonstrate value creation beyond patents, particularly relevant for social sciences and humanities and interdisciplinary research
- Standardization Road-Mapping. Enables early, realistic decisions on whether and how standardisation can support uptake, interoperability, or impact. It demystifies standardisation for nonexperts and makes “no standardisation” a valid, documented outcome.
- Integrated Open Science and Open Innovation in Intellectual Assets Management. Provides governance support for openness decisions in collaborative research.
- Spin-off Launchpad. Supports evidence-based decisions on whether a spinoff is the right valorisation pathway, or whether alternatives (licensing, collaboration, standardisation) are more appropriate.
Key reasons for Public Research Organisations and Academic Institutions to apply
- The services can be useful, when you:
seek improvement of societal and market impact of your organisation‘s research results, especially, if there is certain “hidden” research results never valorised; - strive to better address issues of management of intellectual assets aiming to boost your organisation’s commercialisation and applicability potential;
- search for professional expertise that would help shaping and further developing a successful intellectual asset management solutions.
In order to be awarded the mentoring services you have to apply completing the online application form on behalf of your organization via IAM4RE.eu website. The call is open till 7th of April 2026.
Please note, that the application must originate from Public Research Organizations and Academic Institutions, operating within the EU and Associated Countries, eligible for Horizon Europe programme approved Widening actions (please, check the country list). Applications will be evaluated to ensure a diverse and representative group of pilot institutions, considering institutional profile, geographic and disciplinary diversity, operational environment, alignment with mentoring services and demonstrated commitment to participate. The final selection will aim to ensure balanced representation across regions, institutional types and mentoring needs.
What is expected from participating Public Research Organisations or Academic Institutions?
- commitment to participate in the mentoring activities, when providing e your organisation’s case details to the experts as well as participating in online meetings with the experts
- engagement of relevant personnel and stakeholders (if needed)
- willingness to provide structured feedback to the experts
- no financial contribution is required
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- Who is the eligible applicant for the IAM4RE mentoring services call?
Eligible applicants for the IAM4RE experts provided free-of-charge mentoring services call are public academic institutions: universities, research institutes or research organizations, operating in the EU countries and Associated countries, that are eligible for Horizon Europe programme approved Widening actions (please, check the country list). No special requirements are foreseen for the size of public academic institutions in terms of student or employee numbers, geographical location, disciplinary or thematic focus in studies or research, operating environment as regards the internal or external technology transfer or research commercialization structure.
- What is expected from the applicants?
As a first step, the applicants are expected to complete the application form. In the application form the applicants should provide a brief description of their organization’s case, that according to the applicants, require mentoring services for their organization’s intellectual asset management and knowledge valorization practice.
If selected, the applicants are expected to commit to participate in the mentoring activities by devoting some of their time and providing their organization’s case details to the experts as well as participating in the mentoring service delivery alongside with the experts, final feedback to the experts included. Depending on the complexity of the case for mentoring, the mentoring services may last up to 1-3 months with several on-line meetings and a potential onsite visit of experts.
- What would mentoring services be about?
The applicant may ask one kind of the mentoring services or a combination of several, depending on the complexity its mentoring service case provided and upon mutual decision of the applicant and IAM4RE experts. Free-of charge professional IAM4RE mentoring services fall into these categories:
1. Strategic Intellectual Asset Management Planning.
2. Non-Patentable Intellectual Assets Management and Valorization.
3. Standardization Road-Mapping.
4. Integrated Open Science and Open Innovation in Intellectual Assets Management.
5. Spin-off Launchpad.- What are the selection criteria for the applicants?
The final pool of applicants for mentoring services is expected to ensure that the mentoring services developed by the IAM4RE experts are effective, practical and adaptable to diverse academic institutions in terms of their size, academic and research profile, geographic location (regional vs capital based) and in their different operational environment. Therefore when selecting the applicants the balanced approach in terms of representation across regions, institutional types and mentoring needs will be taken into account.
- Where to submit the application?
The application form can be found here: xxxx The final application submission date is the 7th April, 2026 (end of business day).
- When is the expected timeline of the mentoring service delivery for the applicants?
Selected applicants will be notified and receive an informative letter with brief guidelines on how the award of the mentoring services will be organized and what steps or actions the applicant should take in order to be prepared for the mentoring services. The delivery of the mentoring services to the selected applicants is foreseen to start in May, 2026.