Expanding Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

 

Target Orgs:Companies, Government, Municipalities, Non-profits, SME
Category:Education, Entrepreneurship, Society
Issuer:

European Commission

Website:https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/port…
Total budget:5.000.000
Due date:10.05.2022 Single-stage
Grant min-max:0 € – 1.000.000 €
Own contribution:0%
Keywords:HORIZON
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The transforming economy and rapid development of technology have changed employment conditions and the set of skills needed to grow one’s own business. More than ever should educational institutions work hand in hand with the business sector to prepare students for a rapidly changing working environment by nurturing their entrepreneurial competences. Compared to dense areas around economic centres, the entrepreneurial skills and activity gap is bigger in peripheral areas with lower economic activity, confirming the importance of closely interlinked ecosystems for sustaining entrepreneurial activity and employment rates.

The Expanding Entrepreneurial Ecosystems should enhance entrepreneurial skills of youth in ‘modest’ and ‘moderate’ innovation ecosystems by supporting entrepreneurial education through programmes designed in closed collaboration with the private sector and business acceleration entities. The proposals should leverage on the best practices of the private sector in Europe’s well performing innovation hubs and the existing collaboration with educational institutions. Only by building local talents, including female talents, and providing them with knowledge and opportunities to contribute to the local private sector or develop their own businesses, the local innovation ecosystem can expand based on sustainable and inclusive growth. The proposals should valorise high levels of technical skills in developing innovation ecosystems with hands-on knowledge and experiences in business management and international scale-up process.

Projects results are expected to contribute to some of the following expected outcomes:

  • Improved flows of innovation resources between innovation ecosystems at various levels of developments;
  • Improved quality of entrepreneurial education and local talents equipped with skills to support business acceleration and digitalisation;
  • Enhanced entrepreneurial activity in developing innovation ecosystems and its scale up across Europe or internationally;
  • Increased youth (self) employability;
  • Raised awareness of diverse business cultures and opportunities across sectors and / or geographies.

Target group: Vocational schools, higher education establishments, public authorities in the field of education and employment, SMEs, corporations.

Organisations eligible for funding under the Horizon Europe programme:

  • Any legal entity established in a Member State or Associated country or created under Union law;
  • Any international European interest organisation;
  • Any legal entity established in a third country listed in the work programme.

The conditions regarding the legal form of the applicant and the partnership requirements vary depending on the call to which you are applying. Please refer to the call documentation for each call.

Consortium required!

Consortia must have at least three independent legal entities, of which at least one is established in ‘modest’ or ‘moderate’ innovator region and at least one in ‘strong’ or ‘innovation leader’ innovator region. The consortium must consist of at least one educational institution and at least one representative of the private sector.

The total budget is €5 million. It is foreseen to fund five proposals of up to €1 million. The funding rate will be 100% of eligible costs.

Deadline date is 10 May 2022 17:00 Brussels time.

 

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