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.
The objective of this call for proposals is to protect, empower and assist consumers, in particular those who are the most vulnerable, by enhancing their skills, and knowledge, by providing local advice, by raising awareness of their rights, obligations, and choices in the market.
In this context, through specific activities that the applicant will specify in its proposal, at least one of the following specific objectives need to be achieved:
Proposals under this call shall address one or more of the following objectives reflecting the key themes and priorities in providing consumer education, awareness and local advice:
A wide range of activities are eligible to be supported. Such activities may include for instance (non-exhaustive list):
85%
Project budgets (maximum grant amount) are expected to be around €150.000 per project.
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
Consortium composition:
Proposals by a single applicant as well as by a consortium are allowed.
Ministry of Energy, Trade and Industry
Industry and Technology Service
1421, Nicosia, Cyprus
Email: sit@meci.gov.cy
Contact Person:
Spyros Triantaphyllidis
Telephone: 22867333
Email: striantafyllides@meci.gov.cy
For help ( NON IT related) to this call, please contact:EISMEA-CONS-GRANTS@ec.europa.eu