Deadline: 30-Apr-21
Within the EU4Business initiative, EUROCHAMBRES, the Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry, signed a grant contract n° ENI/2019/411-865 in 2019 to implement the project ‘EU4Business: Connecting Companies’ (EU4BCC).
This project is directly in line with EUROCHAMBRES ‘statutory objectives’: to improve the general conditions in which businesses operate, to facilitate access to markets within and beyond the EU and to ensure the availability of human, financial and natural resources. More than 93% of these businesses are small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Chambers’ member businesses employ over 120 million.
The objectives of this call for proposals is to identify, for each economic sector identified in the EU4BCC project, a partnership of EU and EaP Business Support Organisations having a keen and common interest in elaborating, managing and implementing actions under the supervision of the relevant Sectorial Consortium.
Actions to the implemented (twinnings, B2B matchings and study visits) by sector:
- Bio/organic Food sector: 12 actions
- Wine sector: 11 actions
- Tourism sector: 12 actions
- Textiles sector: 12 actions
- Creative Industries: 12 actions
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 3.540.000,00. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.
- The implementation of the initiative will be done through at least 59 actions for the five sectors.
- Size of grants
- Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall under the following maximum amount:
- Maximum amount: EUR 60.000,00.
- Duration: The timeframe for the implementation of the action is from 1 July 2021 to 15 June 2022.
Eligibility Criteria
- A partnership of EU and EaP Business Support Organisations (BSOs) that are keen to implement actions in the following selected sectors: Bio/organic Food, Wine, Tourism, Textiles and Creative Industries.
- To be eligible, the lead applicant must be:
- a private or public legal entity
- a non-profit making entity
- established in a Member State of the European Union (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden).
- To be eligible, the co-applicant(s) must be:
- a private or public legal entity
- a non-profit making entity
- established in one of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine).
- The partnership must include an equal number of applicants from the EU and the EaP countries. E.g., if the partnership has four members it should have one lead applicant and one co-applicant from the EU and two co-applicants from the EaP region.
- In that case (4 BSOs applying), one of the co-applicants needs to be: established in a Member State of the European Union (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden)
For more information, visit https://connectingcompanies.eu/index.php/calls/