Deadline- 13 September 2013
Proposals are accepted for Business and Investment Partnerships in Southern Mediterranean under EuropeAid. The goal of this program is to boost the private sector in southern Mediterranean countries in order to contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth and employment generation, both regionally and sub-regionally.
Priorities/expected results-
- Identification of regional sector strategies in a limited number of promising sectors, in addition to Culture and Creative industries, to attract new EU and intra Mediterranean trade and investment flows, and to develop further EU and intra Mediterranean SMEs linkages and business partnerships
- Organisation of, in the context of identified regional sector strategies, North-South and South-South networking meetings and workshops between Mediterranean sector business associations, companies, investment promotion agencies, financial intermediaries, public institutions, and other stakeholders, including counterparts in the EU and intra-Mediterranean, to promote business development, inclusive growth and foster employment creation
- Disseminate the best practices from each Mediterranean country in order to enhance the international image of the region for investors
- Develop the Mediterranean business development organisations to serve the investor and to facilitate the networking of Euro-Mediterranean organisations involved in investment promotion in the private sector
- Capacity building of intermediary organisations and promotion of entrepreneurship in particular for the youth, to facilitate business development and financial self-sustainability
The overall indicative amount made available under this Call for Proposals is € 4,000,000. The initial planned duration of an action may not be lower than 30 months nor exceed 36 months.
Eligibility & Criteria-
- be legal persons
- be non-profit-making
- be specific types of organisations such as: non-governmental organisations, public sector operators, local authorities, international (inter-governmental) organisations as defined by Article 43 of the Implementing Rules to the EC Financial Regulation
- be established in a Member State of the European Union or a country that is a beneficiary of this Regulation
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