COVID-19 Recovery Through Sustainable Tourism Growth and SME Support
SMP Grants for Financial Support
Basic Information
- Identifier
- SMP-COSME-2021-TOURSME-01
- Programme
- COVID-19 Recovery Through Sustainable Tourism Growth and SME Support
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- December 9, 2021
- Deadline
- March 2, 2022
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €12,420,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- SMP-COSME-2021-TOURSME-01SMP-COSME-2021-TOURSME
Description
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.
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.
Eligibility & Conditions
Conditions
1. Eligible countries: as described in the Call document.
2. Eligibility and admissibility conditions: as described in the Call document.
4. Evaluation: Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described in the Call document.
5. Indicative timetable for evaluation and grant agreement: as described in the Call document.
6. Proposal templates, guidance and model grant agreements (MGA):
Mono/Multi-beneficiary Model Grant Agreement
Support & Resources
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Online Manual – Please be aware that the Manual is currently drafted for the H2020 Programme and may not entirely fit for other programmes. However, a revision is being completed to make it corporate.
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Intellectual Property Helpdesk – Contact the IP Helpdesk for advice on the IP elements of your grant agreement.
Latest Updates
An updated version (Version 2.0) of the Call has been published on the 21st January 2022. The changes are listed in ‘History of Changes’ on Page 2 of the Call, and relate to text in yellow.
One of these changes concerns the Call deadline, which has been extended to the 2nd March, 2022 (17 hours, Brussels time).