For Europe's regions to be innovative and entrepreneurial, regional organisations responsible for, or involved in, developing and implementing regional economic and social policies must themselves be innovative and entrepreneurial. There is a recognition that training has been provided separately to regional organisations in innovation and, to a lesser extent, entrepreneurship, but not as part of an integrated programme. This largely because the concept of innovative entrepreneurship is well understood at the national level and at an enterprise level but there are critical gaps in our understanding of how it applies at the meso or regional level.Developing and enhancing the innovative, entrepreneurial and creativity skill sets of regional organisations present significant challenges; their location often means that there are barriers to education provision and the availability of local learning supports. Developing innovative entrepreneurship skills among staff and volunteers of regional organisations — particularly community and voluntary organisations — is the key challenges that the FIERE project seeks to address. The project will review existing innovative entrepreneurship provision and ascertain the needs of staff and volunteers in regional community and voluntary organisations. The FIERE project will result in the specification for an innovative entrepreneurship skills training programme that is linked to the national qualifications framework, the development of a network of 120 regional innovative entrepreneurship adult education providers/mentors/counsellors and the provision of training workshops. The FIERE project will, inter alia, disseminate case studies of best practice action projects undertaken by 240 course participants utilising the innovative entrepreneurship skill sets they have acquired.