Universities are important pillars in the country's education and innovation system. PARENIS aims to reinforce the universities' capability of exploiting their research, while opening their results to industry in order to promote innovation. The exploitation of research is dealt with from two perspectives: how can universities improve the quality and quantity of their research publications to benefit industry? And how can a better knowledge transfer in the domains of research and innovation take place between university and industry?PARENIS develops a two phases program over three years. The first phase implements five research methodology courses for Master and PhD programs. These courses are focused on enhancing master and PhD students' capabilities of doing and writing good research. Lecturers from PC univerities are involved in the training process to be able to continue to teach the new courses beyond the project lifetime. The subsequent mobility phase enables students to integrate European research teams to learn more about how to put the methodologies into practice. In the second phase, PARENIS creates mechanisms and procedures to intensify research collaborations between academia and industry. It initiates innovation labs to create a space, in which universities and enterprises identify opportunities for joint research and define agendas for collaborative work. Beside the innovation labs, the project launches offices for research exploitation and marketing to ensure a permanent university-enterprise linkage. The EUinstitutions train the partner universities staff who will be in charge of operating the offices.An online virtual platform is implemented to guarantee a long-term impact of the project. It creates a virtual space that boosts collaboration among PC universities, EU universities, and local industry. Among other functionalities, the platform contains the video lectures of the research methodology courses.