Single Market Program – EU-Ukraine Cluster Partnership Programme – 2024

Objectives

• To integrate Ukraine into the Single Market
• To support Ukrainian business integration in EU value chains and the development of cooperation projects and partnerships between European and Ukrainian clusters and business network organisations
• To promote the transition of Ukrainian companies to greater sustainability

Priorities

• Priority 1: To focus on one of the industrial ecosystems below:
  • Aerospace & Defence
  • Agri-Food
  • Construction
  • Digital
  • Electronics
  • Health
  • Mobility-Transport-Automotive
  • Renewable Energy
• Priority 2: To develop value chains interlinkages between EU and Ukrainian companies (networking)
• Priority 3: To foster the cluster capacity-building and the professionalisation of support for both EU and Ukrainian SMEs

Among financed activities

• Twinning, networking and learning activities and projects that aim at cooperation and capacity building
• Development of a comprehensive cluster strategy for the individual clusters, including activities to strengthen collaboration and partnership development along and across value-chains between the EU and Ukraine
• Enhancement of clusters’ capacities to provide high quality added-value support services for businesses, especially SMEs
• Organisation and implementation of a mobility scheme for beneficiaries’ staff members

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• To be or to be entitled to represent:
  • A cluster organisation
  • A business network organisation that manages joint activities, facilitates networking and provides or channels specialised and customised business support services to their members and related actors
  • Other types of “support organisations” supporting green and digital transitions and build EU resilience from the country eligible under the Single Market Programme
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • EEA countries and countries associated to the Single Market Programme (Click here)
• A consortium composed of at least 3 entities, established in at least 3 different EU Member States or associated countries to the programme must be constituted
  • at least one beneficiary must be a cluster organisation established in the territory under the control of the Ukrainian government, at the submission of the proposal
  • at least one must be a cluster organisation established in an EU Member State

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between 18 and 24 months
• Contact : EISMEA-SMP-COSME-ENQUIRIES@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 3 million euro
• Amount of the grant: 500.000 euro
• Funding rate: up to 90% of the total eligible costs