Tue, 07 May 2013

The purpose of this call for tenders is to run the key enabling technologies (KETs) observatory for 2013–2015, based on the first results and lessons learned during the feasibility study (2011–2012).The KETs observatory has the aim to provide European and national policymakers and business stakeholders on a regular basis [...]

Tue, 30 Apr 2013

The subject matter of the contract is to support the preparation, organisation and follow-up of five missions in 2014-2015 offering matchmaking opportunities for cluster organisations in CIP participating countries and their member SMEs, with international partners outside Europe, building upon the previous CIP-funded action organising similar [...]

Fri, 05 Oct 2012

The overall purpose of this contract is to assist the selected sub-sectors in developing a validated overview of skills vocabulary relevant to occupations in their particular segments of the sector.

Fri, 07 Sep 2012

The objective of the activities to be funded by this call for proposals is to contribute to the availability of reliable statistics on social enterprises at national and European levels and to identify countries interested in collecting this information.

Wed, 25 Jul 2012

The overall objective of the present call for proposals is to enhance competitiveness and sustainability of European tourism and to contribute to the creation of an environment favourable to transnational co-operation among tourism-related stakeholders with a particular emphasis on the SMEs.

Published : Thu, 24 May 2012

Fri, 27 Jul 2012

The overall objective of this call for proposals is to give higher visibility to excellent practice in the field of CSR and to share such practice across the EU, so encouraging more enterprises to cooperate with their stakeholders to better meet their social responsibility.

Published : Mon, 07 May 2012

Fri, 14 Sep 2012

The overall objective of this call is to encourage and enable more European enterprises of the respective business sector across the EU to take a strategic approach to corporate social responsibility in cooperation with relevant stakeholders.

Thu, 16 Aug 2012

Today shortages of vocational skills have become a serious problem in many economic sectors. Consequently, Europe has to better match demand for and supply of skills.

Published : Tue, 28 Feb 2012

Mon, 30 Apr 2012

The objective of the present call for proposals is to support eligible countries’ National Administrations in charge of tourism, or other eligible public bodies for the purpose of the selection of one EDEN destination of excellence.

Published : Wed, 10 Aug 2011

Wed, 05 Oct 2011

The overall objective is to enable small and medium-sized enterprises to further develop their capacity in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), so enhancing the creation of shared value for their owners, other stakeholders and society at large. The specific is to further improve the quality of CSR advice [...]

Published : Wed, 03 Aug 2011

Mon, 26 Sep 2011

In order to help developing their policy approach for the wood-processing and other wood-using industries, the EC services require a detailed analysis, at regional and sub-sectoral levels, of the situation for wood, including recovered wood, and recovered paper supplies and demands in the context of EU policies in support of [...]

Published : Mon, 01 Aug 2011

Fri, 07 Oct 2011

Believing that in the "niche" market of cultural tourism there is a lot of potential for growth, and believing that EU action could really add value to national, regional and local policies in this field, the overall objective of the present call for proposals is twofold: to contribute to differentiating the [...]

Mon, 30 Jun 2014

The purpose of this Call is to attract leading economists in academia, international organisations, governments and top research institutions to participate in the Economist Visitors Programme of DG Enterprise and Industry.

Fri, 16 Sep 2011

95/PP/ENT/CIP/11/C/N01C011

Published : Wed, 25 May 2011

Tue, 30 Aug 2011

The objective of the call is to provide support to actions that will focus on manufacturing and process industries covered by the ETS so as to enable these to cope with the challenges of a low carbon economy and to maintain their competitiveness, with a particular view to tackling the [...]

Published : Fri, 04 Mar 2011

Fri, 03 Jun 2011

The overall objective of this call for proposals is to enhance market reward for sustainable and socially responsible enterprises, so facilitating the transition towards a sustainable economy. The specific objective is to build the capacity of mainstream investment actors to better integrate environmental, social and governance information into their valuations of [...]

Fri, 05 Nov 2010

The purpose of this study is to assess current and forthcoming possibilities of REACH to effectively foster innovative development, enhanced commercialisation and speeded uptake of products of emerging technologies to ensure their contribution to addressing the challenges of the EU 2020. As spin-offs and SMEs are usual drivers behind the [...]

Published : Wed, 22 Sep 2010

Mon, 11 Oct 2010

The overall objective of this call for tenders is: * to develop better knowledge and transparency on conformity assessment standards and certification or declaration procedure (practical application) helping companies to develop business in trade between EU and Russia and EU and Brazil * to formulate proposals for simplification and convergence of conformity [...]

Published : Wed, 04 Aug 2010

Fri, 01 Oct 2010

The overall objective of this call for proposals is to strengthen the research potential on competitiveness and sustainability tourism-related issues on European scale, in particular by encouraging and supporting the development, across Europe, of regional ‘research-driven clusters’, associating universities, research centres, enterprises and regional authorities.

Thu, 30 Sep 2010

This call "PRO INNO Europe®: Better policies and instruments in support of eco-innovation" aims to set up a consortium to expand the knowledge base on the role to be played by public policies and actors in the field of eco-innovation, in particular innovation agencies and programmes, most efficient approaches [...]