Tourism
ECCP News
Read DG GROW's guide for funding available for tourism businesses
Are you wondering what EU funding is available for tourism businesses? In 2020, the EU introduced a stimulus package worth €2.018 trillion. It consisted of the EU’s long-term budget for 2021 to 2027 under the multiannual financial framework and NextGenerationEU, a temporary instrument to help the...
ECCP News
Clusters and the Enterprise Europe Network in the tourism sector
On 29 June, the European Alliance Against Coronavirus talked about the collaboration between clusters and the Enterprise Europe Network in the field of tourism. Aija Konisevska Azadi from EEN Sector Group Tourism & Culture Heritage presented the activities of this EEN sector group, which joins 34...
ECCP News
European Alliance Against Coronavirus Recap - Clusters and the Enterprise Europe Network in the tourism sector
On 29 June, the European Alliance Against Coronavirus talked about the collaboration between clusters and the Enterprise Europe Network in the field of tourism. Aija Konisevska Azadi, EEN Sector Group Tourism & Culture Heritage, presented the activities of this EEN sector group, which has 34...
ECCP News
European Capitals of Culture as laboratories of innovation
Funded by the European Commission under the COSME programme, the TraCEs – Cultour Is Capital project seeks to create a cultural and sustainable tourism model in European Capitals of Culture that is based on their heritage and creative and cultural industries. Eight partners from Italy, Slovakia...
Calls
IKAT Tourism 2nd Call for SMEs in Europe - Financial support for services
The Second Call of the IKAT Eurocluster aims to provide solutions that address and are in alignment with the priorities of the European Strategy for more Growth and Jobs in Coastal and Maritime Tourism, as well as to recover pre-pandemic Gross Domestic Product (GDP), contributing to re-establishing...
Community News
9 European partners from 5 industrial ecosystems join forces to support SMEs in their transition towards industry 5.0
The project is focused on the collaboration of five industrial ecosystems of key relevance in Europe: Mobility, Transport & Automotive (MTA), Aerospace & Defence; Electronics; Cultural & creative industries (CCIs); and Tourism. The first three European strategic and strongly interrelated industrial...
Community News
Save the date - European Tourism Day 2023
After five years of absence, European Tourism Day is back. You are kindly invited to attend on 5 May 2023 in the European Commission Charlemagne building, Brussels, starting from 9 am. This event will be an opportunity to take stock of the EU tourism policy in the context of the green and digital...
Calls
IKAT Tourism Call for SMEs in Europe - Financial support for services
The First Call of the IKAT Eurocluster aims to provide solutions that address and are in alignment with the priorities of the European Strategy for more Growth and Jobs in Coastal and Maritime Tourism, as well as to recover pre-pandemic Gross Domestic Product (GDP), contributing to re-establishing...
Community News
Starting MedBAN: Clusters as Ecosystems of Business Acceleration for a Sustainable Blue Med Economy
We are MedBAN - Mediterranean Blue Acceleration Network, a project that aims to mobilize EU blue economy SMEs to adopt greener and digitalized processes! 🌊 Want to know more? Join our kick-off meeting on 29 November at 15h30 (CET), wherever you are, through Zoom! 🤝 The MedBAN project is part of the...
ECCP News
€8m call to boost digitalisation and innovation in tourism sector
The European Commission's Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) has launched an €8 million call for proposals to support digitalisation and innovation in Europe's tourism sector. The agency expects to fund between eight and 11 proposals and is offering a maximum grant of...
ECCP News
Chance to take part in European Tourism Convention
Following nine consecutive years of growth, the European Union (EU) tourism ecosystem is among the hardest hit by the global COVID-19 pandemic. The European Commission is organising the European Tourism Convention on 12 October 2020 to launch a dialogue on sustainable recovery and the strategic...
ECCP News
Clusters proposals for Tourism
Summary of the European Alliance Against Coronavirus Daily Webinar on 22 July 2020. The participants in this daily meeting looked at a particular sector in the tourism ecosystem: the events business. Gorazd Čad from Toleranca Marketing and Teodora Jilkova from Veritas Cluster shared insights on how...