"Tuscan Start Up Academy" Project was created in response to the regional call for proposals "Activation of training courses for entrepreneurship in the academic field", aimed to designing and providing training courses to support entrepreneurship arising from the research activities.

The project was articulated into 7 courses (for a total of 15 course /editions) and had a duration of 9 months (January-September 2015).

The students of the courses were graduated, recent graduated, PhD students, new PhDs, research fellows at Tuscan universities. The offer consisted of free training courses on the main issues of entrepreneurship, in different sectorial perspectives and deepining, according to ana rticulation in basic, specialization (sectorial or thematic) and coaching courses.

The goal was to prepare the future aspiring entrepreneurs, especially in the higher technology sectors.