Deadline: 17 June 2015
The European Commission’s Executive Agency for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (EASME) is currently inviting proposals from eligible organizations in EU member states for the programme titled “Statistics for Family Businesses”. The programme is an initiative by EU’s COSME programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). It aims at setting-up an action supporting promotion of family businesses according to the Small Business Act. The objective of this call is to collect data in the area of family businesses.
Program Objectives
The objectives of the activities to be funded by this call for proposals are:
- to contribute to the availability and improvement of long-term reliable statistics on family businesses at national and European level.
- to support the development of statistics for the first time in countries which have not collected yet the statistical information on family businesses.
Priority Areas
At least one or more of the following activities must be included in the proposed project:
- creation of satellite accounts at national and/ or regional levels
- statistical surveys
- development of electronic tools for collection of data such as special software and training to work with these specific tools
- analysis and dissemination of data
- workshops and conferences
- creation of data bases
- statistical mapping of family enterprises by regions
- updating, improving and adapting already existing methods etc.
Grants & Duration
- The total budget available for co-financing of projects is EUR 300,000.
- The maximum grant will be EUR 60,000.00 (sixty thousands euros) per project.
- The activities must not start before January 2016 and should be completed by March 2017.
- The minimum duration of the project is 12 months and the maximum duration is 14 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be legal entities, statistical offices (national, federal or regional) or any other public or private entity whose activities involve collection of statistics for businesses. They can be fully or partly public or private bodies.
- Private bodies must be properly constituted and registered under national law.
- The statistical office (national, federal or regional) must be present in the proposal as one of the partners. Such entities may include: public entities responsible for or active in the fields of economic affairs, entrepreneurship, business support or related issues, e.g. national/regional authorities, governmental agencies; education and training providers (public and private); chambers of commerce and industry, chambers of handicrafts or similar bodies, and business support organisations, business associations and business support networks.
- Only applications from legal entities established in the following countries are eligible:
- EU Member States; or
- Countries participating in the COSME programme pursuant to Article 6 of the COSME Regulation
- Legal entities having a legal or capital link with applicants, which is neither limited to the action nor established for the sole purpose of its implementation, may take part in the action as affiliated entities, and may declare eligible costs.
- The application can be submitted by a single statistical office or by a consortium made up of more than one entity where the statistical office is participating as a partner.
- Applicant may act with the coordinator and the other partners who must satisfy the same eligibility criteria.
How to Apply?
Applications must be submitted as per the guidelines of the agency.
For more information, please download this PDF EASME.
