This contribution describes the Twinning Programme within H2020 by reporting about the ENHANCE project “Building an Excellency Network for Heightening Agricultural ecoNomic researCh and Education in Romania (ENHANCE)” via its objectives, measures and intermediate results. The importance of integrating evidence based methods into the training of not only post-graduate students but also into the advanced training of staff members will be shown. The Twinning Programme offers an effective tool to efficiently advance the scientific excellence of staff members and post-graduate students via the cooperation and intensified interlinkages with high performing partner institutes and researchers.