Deadline: 16-Feb-22
The European Commission is calling for proposals for COVID-19 Recovery through Sustainable Tourism Growth and SME Support.
Scope
- This call for proposals will be part of the overall COVID-19 recovery strategy for a sustainable tourism ecosystem and remain in line with the priorities of SME strategy and industrial strategy.
- This action is to guide the recovery of the tourism ecosystem by providing support, including with the intermediary of consortia of organisations of the relevant tourism industry stakeholders, to the digital and green transformation of tourism companies, particularly SMEs, and boosting innovation, resilience, sustainability and quality along the tourism value chain.
- The activity will also include provision of financial support to third parties, e.g. SMEs.
Funding Information
The available call budget is EUR 12 420 000. This budget might be increased by maximum 20%.
Expected Results
- Enhanced resilience and competitiveness of tourism SMEs through better uptake of sustainability principles, innovation, and digitalisation (i.e. use of new technologies, greening, data);
- New business models in tourism building on digitalisation, new technologies, sustainability, circularity;
- Enhanced cooperation along the tourism value chain;
- Improved transnational and cross-border cooperation, knowledge transfer and peer learning;
- Support to recovery of the tourism ecosystem from COVID-19 crisis by providing best practices for recovery investment.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies). Such public and private stakeholders43 will also be responsible for organising specific activities for tourism SMEs.
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Single Market Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature
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