SINGLE MARKET PROGRAMME – Joint Cluster Initiatives (EUROCLUSTERS) for Europe’s recovery – 2025

Objectives

• To establish networks and strategic partnerships to improve the resilience of the EU industrial ecosystems by developing and strengthening value chains in the EU Single Market
• To provide training to foster upskilling and reskilling of the workforce and attracting talents
• To go international to boost access to global supply and value chains

Priorities

• Priority 1: To focus on net-zero technologies and critical raw materials, this strand covers value chains within or across industrial ecosystems aiming at ensuring access to a secure and sustainable supply of net-zero technologies, including by scaling up the manufacturing capacity of net-zero technologies and safeguarding supply chain resilience or/and by starting or expanding the extraction, processing, or recycling of strategic raw materials, or the production and scale-up of materials that can substitute strategic raw materials in strategic technologies
• Priority 2: Strand 2 covers value chains not covered in Strand 1

Among financed actions

• Support product innovations to reduce dependency on critical inputs and technologies in the Euroclusters’ value chains with a view to introducing new-tofirm products or services
• Foster the implementation of business process innovations tied to the adoption of new-tofirm technologies that help SMEs to meet requirements for their successful green and digital transitions, as well as to increase their resilience
• Communicate effectively about the work and results of the Eurocluster

Eligibility

• Be a public or private entity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • Non-EU states: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Single Market
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• Be or represent a cluster organisation, a Single Market Programme (SMP) cluster network, or other types of organisations supporting green and digital transitions and building EU resilience
• A consortium composed of at least 3 entities, which complies different conditions (see details on the call document) must be constituted

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between 30 and 36 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: 42 million euro
• Amount of the grant: 2.625.000 per project
• Funding rate: up to 100% of the total eligible costs