A multi-actors partnership has been established with 3 higher education institutions and 3 non university partners. Two of the universities are from the newest Member states (HU and PL) where generational succession and transmission of enterprises comes across the first time in the life of enterprises.

 MAC-Team is the European Multi Actors Cooperation network.
"Multi Actors" means that MAC-Team originates or participates to projects in which all the stakeholders of a problem or a topic are involved at a stage or another stage of the project in order to find appropriate solutions.

 - Centar za politiku razvoja malih i srednjih poduzeca i podzetnistva (SMEs & Entrepreneurship Policy Centre) was founded in 2001 as an independent policy centre and think tank, focused dominantly on policy issues of the SMEs and development of entrepreneurial capacity on the institutional and individual level.

Budapest Business School is the main beneficiary and coordinator of the INSIST project, responsible for the whole implementation process - project management and coordination, research and training material development, pilot trainings and dissemination & exploitation.

The Confederation of Hungarian Employers and Industrialists (BUSINESS HUNGARY) is one of the non-educational partners of the INSIST partnership with important role in business connections, pilot trainings and dissemination activities.

Cracow University of Economics is one of the core partners of the INSIST project participating in both research and training material development and has an important role in the dissemination activities in national and European level as well.

Leeds Beckett University is one of the core partners of the INSIST project participating in both research and training material development and has an important role in the dissemination activities in national and European level as well.