The project aims to create better opportunities for easy and low cost access to continued professional training and advisory services for a specific target group including students, graduates, and people at research and education agencies, inventors and women. ViPiA’s ultimate objective is to strengthen business creation and levels of sustainability in the EU, by increasing the quantity and quality of eligible incubatees. Specifically, the main project aims are: • To encourage entrepreneurship and innovation through the provision of business training, a virtual learning network and mentoring start-ups, in order to increase business creation and levels of sustainability in the EU. • To create better opportunities for easy and low cost access to continued professional training and advisory services for a specific target group including students, graduates, people at research and education agencies, inventors and women. • To develop a new specialized training system based on knowledge and good-practices in the management of high-tech business and to disseminate it across Europe through a multinational training network, seminars and learning materials.• To facilitate admission to incubation programs by using the on-line sessions, visiting schemes to business incubators, individually designed courses and other didactic materials to cover the needs for training of their staff and/or tenants and start-up enterprises in the technology sector.To encourage entrepreneurship within scientific and technical university courses. This would help to enhance awareness within the research community of the opportunities that exist to commercialize new scientific developments. Better linkages between businesses and potential entrepreneurs, through apprenticeships or Universities could also be envisaged.