GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

The Single Market Programme (SMP) covers the single market, competitiveness of enterprises, including small and medium-sized enterprises, the area of plants, animals, food and feed, and European statistics. Specifically, the programme brings together aspects in order to streamline, exploit synergies and provide a better flexible, transparent, simplified and agile framework to finance activities aiming at a well-functioning sustainable internal market.

Maximum grant amount: €1.000.000 This does not however preclude the submission/selection of proposals requesting other amounts. At least 50% of the estimated maximum grant must be reserved for financial support to third parties, i.e. new entrepreneurs.

The grant will be a budget-based mixed actual cost grant (actual costs, with unit cost and flat-rate elements). The costs will be reimbursed at the funding rates fixed in the Grant Agreement (100% for the costs for providing financial support to third parties, i.e., new entrepreneurs, and 75% for all other cost categories).

Projects are expected to last 36 months. They must start on 01/02/2025 and are expected to end on 31/01/2028.

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

• be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• 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 (list of participating countries)

Applicants may be, for instance:

• Public entities responsible for or active in the fields of economic affairs, enterprise, business support or related issues
• Chambers of commerce and industry, chambers of (handi)crafts or similar bodies
• Business support organisations, start-up centres, incubators, technology parks etc.
• Business associations and business support networks
• Public and private entities offering business support services
• Institutes of (higher) education such as universities or institutes for vocational education and training.

Applicants may be, for instance (the list is non-exhaustive):

• Public entities responsible for or active in the fields of economic affairs, enterprise, business support or related issues
• Chambers of commerce and industry, chambers of (handi)crafts or similar bodies
• Business support organisations, start-up centres, incubators, technology parks etc.
• Business associations and business support networks
• Public and private entities offering business support services
• Institutes of (higher) education such as universities or institutes for vocational education and training

Consortium composition

Proposals must be submitted by a consortium composed of minimum 5 to maximum 8 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities), which complies with the following conditions:

• from minimum 4 different eligible countries
• maximum 2 applicants can be from the same country
• the consortium leader must have at least 2 years of experience in implementing the EYE programme.

At the time of the project start (fixed project starting date: 1 February 2025) applicants may not implement more than two (2) EYE grants, under different cycles, at the same time.