Objectives

• To support tourism SMEs through the promotion of up-skilling, capacity building and digitalization
• To foster a triple-helix cooperation among tourism SMEs, creatives and data analysis experts
• To provide ongoing mentoring and tutoring support to the awarded SMEs
• To foster networking at the European level by offering SMEs access to international collaboration platforms and networks

Among financed actions

• Advisory services that consist in an in-depth mapping of specific tourism SMEs’ digitalisation / innovation needs and the guidance to adapt the business processes in order to create the conditions for the deployment of solutions in the field of data collection, analysis and visualization
• Skills improvement, consisting in training and coaching activities to improve the employees’ digital skills necessary for a further digitalization of business processes
• Update and Deployment of Technologies, especially emerging technologies, necessary for the data collection, analysis and visualization

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
• Initial duration of the action: 3 months

Eligibility

• Be a legal entity
• Be a small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of the tourism sector
• Having an economic activity related to the tourism sector

• Total budget of the call: 420.000 euro
• Amount of the grant: 7.000 euro