Overview
Donor: | European Commission (EC) - SMP |
Application procedure: | Online Application |
Donor base: | Belgium |
Reference number: | SMP-COSME-2023-SEED-01 |
Eligible applicants: | Non-Profit Organisation, Social Business |
Deadline: | 21.11.2023 |
Financial details
Grant size: | Large - more than $1,000,000 |
Minimum grant size: | - |
Total available budget: | 8.000.000€ |
Funding type: | Grants |
Maximum grant size: | - |
Funding ratio: | up to 100% |
Sectors
- Capacity Building
- Economic Development
- Research, Technology & Innovation
- Social Inclusion
Project Locations
Europe
Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Description
1) Objective
The call for proposal targets the following outcomes:
- Increased amount of digitally skilled workforce in the SMEs in the social economy.
- Increased know-how on how digitalisation can support organisational efficiency and professionalisation.
- Improved knowledge and capacity when it comes to digitisation within “enabling organisations” supporting SMEs in the social economy.
- Increased use of new technologies and digital tools in social economy SMEs as well as overall increased digital maturity of social economy organisations.
- Enhanced Digital Social Innovation (DSI) capacity in local, regional and national social economy ecosystems.
- Increased amount of tech partnerships (physical or digital) making technology accessible affordable and adaptable through shared models supporting the development of Tech for Good.
The call will support transnational partnerships to boost the digital capacity of actors in the proximity and social economy industrial ecosystem. The aim will be to enable social economy entities to turn digital challenges into opportunities, ensuring a digital transition that is fair and inclusive. In doing so the call also wants to strengthen the capacity of social economy ‘enabling organisations’ in supporting members, clients and stakeholders in their digital transition. Digitalisation can offer significant benefits, but many social economy entities still face barriers regarding the digitalisation of their production processes, services, operations impact models. Such barriers are mainly related to digital skills, know-how, access to technology, data management capacity and an enabling environment for digital business models rooted in the social economy. This call also offers the opportunity to promote Digital Social Innovation (DSI) as way to accelerate social, ecological and collective impact of actors in the social economy.
2) Eligibility
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must: be legal entities (public or private bodies) and be established in one of the eligible countries.
3) Location
Actions must take place in EU member states + associated countries and Western Balkans.
4) Budget
Total budget is €8,000,000. They expect to fund between 6 to 8 proposals under this call for proposals.
5) Application
The deadline for applications submission is 7 November 2023. Proposals must be submitted before the call deadline. Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section). Paper submissions are NOT possible.