Call for expression of interest for member associations to join the project consortium developing short-term training courses for SMEs

DIGITAL SME member associations are invited to join an EU project consortium, developing proposal for the Short-term training courses for SMEs in key capacity areas (digital skills). The proposal will answer the Digital Europe Programme call DIGITAL-2022-TRAINING-02-SHORTCOURSE. More information is available here.

Tasks: the selected associations will be responsible for SME reach-out, ensuring SME participation in the training courses on blockchain, AI and cybersecurity. In addition, the organisation will have to help collecting SME needs (via surveys, interviews or workshops), designing SME-friendly training course approach, conducting general communication activities.

Budget: the full budget available for this call is 25.000.000 euro (up to 3.000.000 per project). Co-funding of 50% is requested by the call specifications. The selected organisation will negotiate its budget directly with the project consortium.

Eligibility: applicants should be SME support organisations (business associations, clusters, DIHs, etc. are welcome), possessing some knowledge and experience with SME digital skills development. A strong preference is given to the SME organisations which can help ensuring consortium’s geographic balance: organisations based in Italy, Central Europe (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic) or Baltic/Nordic states.

Selection: For the APPLICATION, please fill in the form below by Monday. 2 May 2022, 12PM CEST. All the submitted applications will be provided to the project coordinator, who will make the final decision in the selection process.