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.

90%

Project budgets (maximum grant amount) are expected to be around €500.000 per project.

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 (list of participating countries)
• be or be entitled to represent:
  • a cluster organisation (have to be understood as the legal entities that support the strengthening of collaboration, networking and learning in innovation clusters and act as innovation support providers by providing or channelling specialised and customised business support services to stimulate innovation activities, especially in SMEs).
  • business network organisations that manage joint activities, facilitate networking and provide or channel specialised and customised business support services to their members and related actors.
  • other types of “support organisations” supporting green and digital transitions and build EU resilience from the country eligible under the Single Market Programme. These support organisations may include technology centres, research institutes, fab labs, (digital) innovation hubs, creative hubs, resource-efficiency service providers, incubators and accelerators, and public authorities at both regional or city/administration levels and innovation agencies.

Cluster organisations or cluster networks must be registered or have submitted a registration on the European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP) by the submission deadline of this Call for proposals and provide the link to the completed cluster organisation profile for each applicant registered on the Platform (proof to be provided through Annex 5 to Part B – Eligibility Checklist and Ecosystem Selection)

Applicants cannot participate in several Partnerships under this call for proposals. If such a case is detected by the funding body, it will lead to the ineligibility and exclusion of the organisation concerned.

Consortium composition: Proposals must be submitted by a consortium (Partnership) of at least 3 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities), which complies with all the following conditions:

• minimum 3 independent legal entities from 3 different eligible countries;
• at least one beneficiary must be a cluster organisation established in the territory under the control of the Ukrainian government, at the submission of the proposal;
• at least one must be a cluster organisation established in an EU Member State.