**1. Introduction**

TIMS (Training in Innovation Management System for Sustainable SMEs) represents an Erasmus+ EU project (2022–2023), which bases on the recently published ISO 56000 innovation management system norm and elaborates materials to efficiently apply this norm in European industry. This includes the development of an innovation assessment method and tool, the design of a European innovation agent competence matrix, and the development of training materials to support the rollout of this new innovation-related norm.

This work bases on previous innovation-related activities in the EuroSPI (European Systems, Software, Services Process and Product Improvement and Innovation, www.eurospi.net) community which organizes an annual international innovation workshop since 2012 and which was partner in the EU Blueprint project

DRIVES (2018–2022) in which a role of an innovation agent [1–28] has been developed for the automotive industry in Europe. Also, the EuroSPI community provides an infrastructure for managing assessment systems [29–32] and TIMS reused this infrastructure and configured it for innovation assessments based on the PAM (Process Assessment Model) for innovation management developed in TIMS.

This paper provides a short overview of the ISO 56000 norm series, explains the innovation assessment model developed in TIMS, gives an introduction to the setup of the innovation assessment system, and provides an interface to participate in a European innovation benchmarking system for innovation.

At the end, it will give an outlook for further developments and how to access the training materials in future to implement this new innovation-related norm in the industry.
