Social economy enterprises: capacity building and business opportunities for social circular enterprises (SMP-COSME-2024-SEE)

This call for proposals in the field of social economy under the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs strand of the Single Market Programme (SMP COSME) comprises two topics:

Topic 1: SMP-COSME-2024-SEE-01 - Stepping up organisational and entrepreneurial capacity of SMEs in social economy.

This topic aims to improve quality of management and organisational excellence of SMEs in the social economy through the design and implementation of capacity building, training, coaching and advisory services. The activities developed by the selected proposals should be replicable by capturing the designed services in modular blueprints. 

Topic 2: SMP-COSME-2024-SEE-02 - Partnerships for circular value chains between mainstream businesses and SMEs in social economy.

This topic aims to increase the contribution of SMEs in the social economy to the development of circular economy value chains. For this, it will promote and support partnerships between social economy and mainstream (for-profit) businesses. 

Call budget

Total available budget: EUR 8 000 000

• For Topic 1 - Stepping up organisational and entrepreneurial capacity of SMEs in social economy: EUR 6 000 000
• For Topic 2 - Partnerships for circular value chains between mainstream businesses and SMEs in social economy: EUR 2 000 000

Important for submission

When applying to the call, on top of mandatory standard Application Form Parts A & B, you must upload the following mandatory annex:

Annex 5 to Part B - Eligibility checklist - to be uploaded under ‘Other annexes’ field:

- For Topic 1: SMP-COSME-2024-SEE-01 — Stepping up organisational and entrepreneurial capacity of SMEs in social economy 

- For Topic 2: SMP-COSME-2024-SEE-02 — Partnerships for circular value chains between mainstream businesses and SMEs in social economy 

Informative session

On 17 October 2024, EISMEA hosted an online informative session on the call SMP-COSME-2024-SEE, covering both topics “Stepping up organisational and entrepreneurial capacity of SMEs in social economy” and “Partnerships for circular value chains between mainstream businesses and SMEs in social economy”. You will find below:

• the slides of the info session
• the recording