Background
In June 2008, the European Commission adopted the ‘Small Business Act’ for Europe (SBA), recognising the central importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the EU economy. Principle I of the SBA sets out to ‘create an environment in which entrepreneurs can thrive and entrepreneurship is rewarded’. As a concrete follow-up to this aim, the Commission launched the pilot project ‘ERASMUS for Young
Entrepreneurs’ in 2008. It operates mainly on the basis of call for proposals whereby Intermediary Organisations (IOs) are selected to manage the programme locally. After several call for proposals of this nature the programme, which showed promising results, the action was turned into a permanent programme, under the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme.
Eligibility
- Applications must be submitted by a legal person.
- Applicants must correspond to the definition of the following target organisations: any public or private entity whose core activity is in the
field of business support. This may in particular include:
- 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 handicrafts or similar bodies
- business support organisations, start-up centres and incubators
- business associations and business support networks
- public and private entities offering business support services
- Corporate bodies must be properly constituted and registered under the law. If a body or organisation is not constituted under the law, a
physical person must be designated to provide the legal responsibility
- Consortia should be composed of at least 5 independent legal entities from at least 4 different Participating Countries.
- We do not allow that a partner participates in more than one proposal. Should this happen, all the proposals involving this partner will be
excluded.
Budget
4.650.000 EUR
Deadline: 09 July 2013
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