The 3-year JPHES aims at the establishment of a Higher Education Learning Partnership (HELP) and 3 HELP offices in each of the project partner countries in Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and Romania with the objective to facilitate cooperation between HEIs and their local environment. The project foresees the development and implementation of learning and training programmes tailored to local enterprise development needs and priorities. The specific objectives are: "To establish learning partnerships (HELPs) in South Eastern Europe between higher education and enterprises at the local level to: identify and prioritise the main learning and training needs to promote local enterprise development; to evaluate the existing learning and training opportunities at the local level and the ways these could be improved within HELPs in terms of the access, structure and content of learning and training programmes; share experience of local HELPs at the regional level and explore existing models of partnership for knowledge exchange between education and enterprise."