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The ambition of the project is to reduce the innovation gap and enhance the capacities for technology and knowledge transfer in the field of ICT in nine countries of the Danube region. This project addresses the lack of synergies, cooperation and exchange among knowledge transfer and innovation stakeholders and insufficient business support services for SMEs in the Danube region. Solving these problems is essential for effective valorisation of research results coming from higher education and public research organisations (HEIs/PROs) and also for SMEs' ability to develop products and services with high added value. Our focus is predominantly on providing support to HEIs/PROs for successful technology uptake and spin-off/start-up building. Within the project, we will develop Guidelines for effective technology transfer and commercialisation and organise technology transfer workshops for HEI/PRO's management. We will also prepare Methodology for selection and assessment of technologies for incubation/acceleration and build a Transnational incubation and acceleration programme for ICT: Danube Digital Accelerator and pilot it with 30 ICT technologies coming from HEIs/PROs. The project also simplifies access to transnational resources for innovations for SMEs. The offer provided by EDIHs and EENs in the Danube region will be presented in one place and promoted towards SMEs through a digital tool (EXPERTS.AI platform developed by one of the project partners). To encourage thematically focused transnational RDI networking between HEIs/PROs and companies, we will develop interactive online and offline networking formats and create a toolkit for organizers of these events. Finally, the project will map ICT excellence, both on the supply and demand side, in four non-EU countries to support transnational technology transfer linkages. This data mapping will be also used as an example for an evidence-based approach towards development and improvement of S3 strategies. An Action plan on a data-based approach towards S3 will be developed for policy makers and S3 managers. The project consortium builds on the different competencies of 16 project partners (PPs) and 8 associated strategic partners (ASPs) and brings together knowledge-generating organisations, organisations experienced in business development and innovation management as well as policy makers and innovation agencies.