The project is carried through within five basic working packages of part-activities:

Component 1: Management and co-ordination care for smooth processes, co-ordinated decisions and basic management.

Component 2: Exchange of experience, information and research findings amongst the network partners, with a focus on regional development, regional innovation systems and regional entrepreneurship promotion. The idea is to facilitate the understanding and application of entrepreneurship promotion within regions, of different and new types of promotional activities and specific methods, measures and tools. Activities combine informal exchange, meetings, conferences and research. The resarch results have been published as a book "Cultivating Entrepreneurial Regions" in June 2007 (electronically as a pdf also available in our download-area).

Component 3 targets on broadening the findings of BEPART, for example on the dissemination of new and effective approaches of entrepreneurship promotion and their conditions which could be identified within components 2 and 4. Here, BEPART focuses on regional impact of its activities and the involvements of relevant within regional systems for innovation and entrepreneurship. Two larger BEPART conferences (2005 and 2006) were a major activity. One of the outputs are the 10 BEPART propositions 'Towards Entrepreneurial Regions'.

Component 4: Here, ‘action learning and reflection groups - ARGs’ are laboratories to develop and test new ways to learn or train entrepreneurial competences. Two ARGs currently work on: (1) Training of Trainers and Multipliers in Entrepreneurship Education and Training”, (2) “Good Practice & Evaluation in Entrepreneurship Education and Training”.

Component 5: Learning and high quality within the BEPART project activities. The quality improvement is done for example by defining evaluation-criteria, safeguarding self-assessment, organising internal monitoring and feed-back, coaching and reporting. An international symposium in March 2007 focused 'challenges of network learning and evaluation' in the field of entrepreneurship promotion. Results have been summarized as a documentation (visit our download-area); a scientific publication is in preparation for autumn 2007.