Attracting and maintaining doctoral and post-doctoral students in high-quality educational programs, including by ensuring an adequate level of funding and promoting partnership relations between institutions and the business environment, pedagogical training opportunities by supporting, developing and providing complementary course modules, with an applicative component, training transversal/entrepreneurial skills in support of research and innovation, especially in the economic sectors with competitive potential identified according to the CNS and in the fields of smart specialisation according to SNCDI addressed to 93 students in doctoral studies programs and 24 post-doctoral researchers during a period of 18 months from Politehnica University Timisoara, technical University of Cluj-Napoca, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi.