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             🌟 Call for Tenders – Closing Conference for the EU4BCC project in Chișinău, Moldova –  CLOSED

This call for tenders seeks to identify a service provider to assist Eurochambres in preparing and organising the closing conference for the EU4BCC project. The selected service provider shall:

  • Support Eurochambres in setting up the agenda, reaching out to potential stakeholders, facilitating the conference, and ensuring the visibility of the results.
  • Manage the entire logistical process to ensure the meticulous organisation of the conference, including travel, accommodation, meals, venue arrangements, and networking dinner, among other tasks.

Please send your applications by Friday, 19 July 2024 (17:00 CET) to the following e-mail address: eu4bcc@eurochambres.eu with the subject line Proposal – Closing Conference for the EU4BCC Project – ENI/2019/411-865.

* The Call for Tenders is open for the legal entities based in the EU or in an EaP country.

Documentation:

Closing Conference, Q&A document

                🌟 Call for Tenders – Study visit for the Textile Sector (second publication) –  CLOSED

The purpose of this call for tenders is to identity a service provider which will support Eurochambres in preparing, organising and assessing:

  • A study visit for the textile sector to Momad 2024 or an equivalent fashion show with similar topics and relevance for 30 participants coming from the EaP countries.
  • B2B meetings between the SMEs coming from the EaP and EU-based SMEs.

Please send your applications by Friday, 3 May 2024 (17:00 CET) to the following e-mail address: eu4bcc@eurochambres.eu with the subject line Proposal Study Visit for the Textile Sector, ENI/2019/411-865.

* The Call for Tenders is open for the legal entities based in the EU or in an EaP country.

Documentation:

Study Visit for Textiles, Q&A document

🌟 Call for Tenders – SME and BSO Tour focused on Bio-/Organic Food and Wine –  CLOSED

The purpose of this call for tenders is to identity a service provider which will support Eurochambres in preparing, organising and assessing:

🌟 Call for Tenders – Study visit for the Textile Sector –  CLOSED

The purpose of this call for tenders is to identity a service provider which will support Eurochambres in preparing, organising and assessing:

  • A study visit for the textile sector  to the Torino Fashion Week 2024 or an equivalent fashion show with similar topics and relevance for 30 participants coming from the EaP countries.
  • B2B meetings between the SMEs coming from the EaP and EU-based SMEs.

Please send your applications by Friday, 16 February 2024 (17:00 CET) to the following e-mail address: eu4bcc@eurochambres.eu with the subject line Proposal Study Visit for the Textile Sector, ENI/2019/411-865.

* The Call for Tenders is open for the legal entities based in the EU or in an EaP country.

Documentation:

Study Visit for Textiles, Q&A document, updated on 12.02.2024.

🌟 Call for Tenders – SME and BSO Tour focused on Digital Marketing and Social Media –  CLOSED

The purpose of this call for tenders is to identity a service provider which will support Eurochambres in preparing, organising and assessing:

  • A study visit – The SME and BSO tour focused on Digital Marketing and Social Media – to Latitude 59 or an equivalent international conference with similar topics and relevance for 40 participants coming from the EaP countries.
  • B2B meetings between the SMEs coming from the EaP and EU-based SMEs.

Please send your applications by Friday, 26 January 2024 (17:00 CET) to the following e-mail address: eu4bcc@eurochambres.eu with the subject line Proposal SME and BSO tour focused on Digital Marketing and Social Media ENI/2019/411-865.

* The Call for Tenders is open for the legal entities based in the EU or in an EaP country.

Documentation:

🌟 Call for Tenders – Study Visit: The Open-door Mobility for Business Support Organisations –  CLOSED

The purpose of this call for tenders is to identity a service provider which will support Eurochambres in preparing, organising and assessing:

  • A study visit – The Open-door Mobility for BSOs – to Brussels for 28 participants coming from the EaP countries.
  • BSOs to BSOs meetings between these participants and EU-based BSOs, and other relevant representatives from the EU Member States.

Please send your applications by Wednesday, 10 January 2024 (17:00 CET) to the following e-mail address: eu4bcc@eurochambres.eu with the subject line Proposal Open-door Mobility for BSOs ENI/2019/411-865.

* The Call for Tenders is open for the legal entities based in the EU or in an EaP country.

Documentation:

🌟 Call for Tenders – SME Tour to Meeting Point- Vilnius – CLOSED

The purpose of this call for tenders is to identity a service provider which will support Eurochambres in preparing, organising and assessing:

  • An SME Tour to the international audiovisual industry event Meeting Point – Vilnius for 28 participants from the EaP countries.
  • B2B meetings between these participants and the relevant industry representatives from the EU countries.

Please send your applications by Monday, 11 December 2023 (17:00 CET) to the following e-mail address: eu4bcc@eurochambres.eu with the subject line Proposal SME Tour to Meeting Point – Vilnius ENI/2019/411-865.

* The Call for Tenders is open for the legal entities based in the EU or in an EaP country.

Documentation:

 
Corrigendum: Following the new visual identity of the EU4BUSINESS facility, the EU4BCC project has revised the visual identity guidelines. Applicants should refer to the following document instead of the above Annex 4:
 
Corrigendum: Due to a discrepancy in the deadlines shown on the website and the document of the call, deadline for applications is opened until Tuesday, 12 December 2023 (17:00 CET).

APPLICATION FORM

The application form is composed of 3 parts:
1. Part A – Application form – with the modifications published in the ERRATUM
2. Part B – Budget
3. Part C – Technical capacity – with the modifications published in the ERRATUM

Erratum – modifications to Parts A and C
Erratum – modifications to Guidelines for grant applicants
Erratum – modifications to Annex 1 (logframe) to Part A

Presentation of the Call for Proposals
→ slides
→ video presentation (webinar)

🌟 Call for Tenders – Online Export Academy and BSOs’ Tour – CLOSED 

The purpose of this call for tenders is to select an entity which will support Eurochambres to organise 2 activities within the EU4BCC project: 1) an online export academy for the SMEs from the EaP countries, and 2) a BSOs’ Tour for the BSOs from the EaP countries.

Both activities – Online Export Academy and BSOs Tour – should take place in April and/or May 2023.

Please send your applications by 2 March 2023 (17:00, CET) to the following e-mail address: eu4bcc@eurochambres.eu with the subject line Proposal Academy/Tour ENI/2019/411-865.

* The Call for Tenders is open for the legal entities based in the EU or the EaP country.

ANNEXES:

APPLICATION FORM

The application form is composed of 3 parts:
1. Part A – Application form – with the modifications published in the ERRATUM
2. Part B – Budget
3. Part C – Technical capacity – with the modifications published in the ERRATUM

Erratum – modifications to Parts A and C
Erratum – modifications to Guidelines for grant applicants
Erratum – modifications to Annex 1 (logframe) to Part A

Presentation of the Call for Proposals
→ slides
→ video presentation (webinar)

Annexes:
Annex to Part A:
• Annex 1 Logical Framework
Included in Part C:
• Annex 1 – Declaration of the lead applicant for the lead applicant only
• Annex 2 – Declaration of Honour for all applicants
• Annex 3 – Mandate for co-applicant (Power of Attorney) for co-applicant(s) only
• Annex 4 – Previous experience for all applicants
• Annex 5 – Composition of the team for the lead applicant
• Annex 6 – CVs of the staff for all applicants (Technical capacity and relevant staff CVs)
• Annex 7 – Financial identification form for the lead applicant only
• Annex 8 – Statement turnover for all applicants
• Annex 9 – Checklist filled in for lead applicant
• Annex 10 – Annual accounts 2018, 2019 for the lead applicant only

Documents for information and useful links
Annex G: Standard grant contract
• Annex II: general conditions
• Annex III: special conditions
    • Annex 6 (to Annex G III) EU4BCC Visual Identity Guide
    • Annex 7 (to Annex G III) Video-Picture-Data Consent
    • Annex 8 (to Annex G III) EU4BCC privacy policy
• Annex IV: contract award rules
• Annex V: standard request for payment
• Annex VI (1): model interim narrative report
• Annex VI (2): model final narrative report
• Annex VI (3): model financial report
• Annex J – Information on the tax regime applicable to grant contracts
• Annex K – Guidelines and checklist for assessing budget and simplified cost options

• Link to PraG: https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/prag/document.do?nodeNumber=6

APPLICATION FORM

The application form is composed of 3 parts:
1. Part A – Application form – with the modifications published in the ERRATUM
2. Part B – Budget
3. Part C – Technical capacity – with the modifications published in the ERRATUM

Erratum – modifications to Parts A and C
Erratum – modifications to Guidelines for grant applicants
Erratum – modifications to Annex 1 (logframe) to Part A

Presentation of the Call for Proposals
→ slides
→ video presentation (webinar)

Annexes:
Annex to Part A:
• Annex 1 Logical Framework
Included in Part C:
• Annex 1 – Declaration of the lead applicant for the lead applicant only
• Annex 2 – Declaration of Honour for all applicants
• Annex 3 – Mandate for co-applicant (Power of Attorney) for co-applicant(s) only
• Annex 4 – Previous experience for all applicants
• Annex 5 – Composition of the team for the lead applicant
• Annex 6 – CVs of the staff for all applicants (Technical capacity and relevant staff CVs)
• Annex 7 – Financial identification form for the lead applicant only
• Annex 8 – Statement turnover for all applicants
• Annex 9 – Checklist filled in for lead applicant
• Annex 10 – Annual accounts 2018, 2019 for the lead applicant only

Documents for information and useful links
Annex G: Standard grant contract
• Annex II: general conditions
• Annex III: special conditions
    • Annex 6 (to Annex G III) EU4BCC Visual Identity Guide
    • Annex 7 (to Annex G III) Video-Picture-Data Consent
    • Annex 8 (to Annex G III) EU4BCC privacy policy
• Annex IV: contract award rules
• Annex V: standard request for payment
• Annex VI (1): model interim narrative report
• Annex VI (2): model final narrative report
• Annex VI (3): model financial report
• Annex J – Information on the tax regime applicable to grant contracts
• Annex K – Guidelines and checklist for assessing budget and simplified cost options

• Link to PraG: https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/prag/document.do?nodeNumber=6

🌟 Relaunch of the CALL FOR PROPOSALS – CLOSED

The results of the evaluation can be found here.

The object of this Call for proposals was to identify, for each economic sector EU4BCC project addresses, a partnership of EU and EaP Business Support Organisations having a keen and common interest in elaborating, managing and implementing actions under the supervision of the relevant Sectorial Consortium.

Actions are to the implemented (B2B matchings and Study visits) in the following sectors:

  • Wine sector
  • Tourism sector
  • Textiles sector
  • Creative Industries

Deadline to submit proposals: 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 | 17:00 (Brussels time)

Applications must be submitted online through the EU4Business: Connection Companies Submission System. For any question regarding technical problems encountered during the online submission of the applications please write an email to eu4bcc@eurochambres.eu.

Any clarification to this call should be sent to the same email address before September 9th, 2021 at 17:00 (Brussels time). All the questions as well as their respective answers will be published (anonymously) in the section FAQ below by September 20th, 2021 latest. Likewise, it is suggested to periodically consult the afore-mentioned site to be duly informed of the published questions and answers.

Candidates interested to apply are invited to submit an application in accordance with the rules set out in the call for proposals.

In order to submit your proposal please follow the link below:

submission system

N.B. ! Please note that you will be able to update submitted applications until the deadline by entering the system with the same credentials.

N.B. ! One registration allows for the submission of only 1 application. In case you want to submit 2 different applications (e.g. a Study visit in  the Textiles sector and a B2B matching in the Tourism sector), you will need to register twice, using two different email addresses.

FAQ

This section was produced on the basis of the questions received through the project’s contact email (eu4bcc@eurochambres.eu), during the networking sessions, and during the presentation of the call for proposals. Please note the project team is not allowed to give answers to questions by email and this is the reason why this FAQ section has been created.
The FAQ will be updated on a weekly basis.
The deadline to ask for clarifications concerning this call is Thursday, 9 September (17:00, Brussels time). 

To download the FAQ section click here.

APPLICATION FORM

The application form is composed of 3 parts:
1. Part A – Application form 
2. Part B – Budget
3. Part C – Technical capacity 

Presentation of the Call for Proposals
→ slides
→ video presentation (webinar)

Annexes:
Annex to Part A:
• Annex 1 Logical Framework
Included in Part C:
• Annex 1 – Declaration of the lead applicant for the lead applicant only
• Annex 2 – Declaration of Honour for all applicants
• Annex 3 – Mandate for co-applicant (Power of Attorney) for co-applicant(s) only
• Annex 4 – Previous experience for all applicants
• Annex 5 – Composition of the team for the lead applicant
• Annex 6 – CVs of the staff for all applicants (Technical capacity and relevant staff CVs)
• Annex 7 – Financial identification form for the lead applicant only
• Annex 8 – Statement turnover for all applicants
• Annex 9 – Checklist filled in for lead applicant
• Please add the annual accounts for the last two financial closed years for the lead applicant only

 

Take a look at the Presentation of the Call

Documents for information
• Annex II: general conditions
• Annex III: special conditions  –  Annex 4 to Annex III BSOs Guidelines
• Annex IV: contract award rules
• Annex V: standard request for payment
• Annex VI (1): model interim narrative report final
• Annex VI (2): model final narrative report final
• Annex VI (3): model financial report

• PRAG Practical guide
• Annex H:  Daily allowance rates (per diem)
• Annex J:   Information on the tax regime applicable to grant contracts signed under the call
• Annex K:  Guidelines for assessing simplified cost options

Useful links
• Project Cycle Management Guidelines
• Implementation of grant contracts: Users’ Guide
• Financial Toolkit           
Please note: The toolkit is not part of the grant contract and has no legal value. It merely provides general guidance and may in some details differ from the signed grant contract. In order to ensure compliance with their contractual obligations, beneficiaries should not exclusively rely on the toolkit but always consult their individual contract documents.

🌟 CALL FOR PROPOSALS – 59 Projects – CLOSED

The results of the evaluation are available here.

The object of this Call for Proposals was to identify, for each economic sector EU4BCC project addresses, a partnership of EU and EaP Business Support Organisations having a keen and common interest in elaborating, managing and implementing actions under the supervision of the relevant Sectorial Consortium.

Actions to be implemented (twinnings, B2B matchings and study visits) by sector:

  • Bio/organic Food sector: 12 actions
  • Wine sector: 11 actions
  • Tourism sector: 12 actions
  • Textiles sector: 12 actions
  • Creative Industries: 12 actions

Deadline to submit proposals: FRIDAY 30 APRIL 2021 | 17:00 (Brussels time)

Candidates interested to apply are invited to submit an application in accordance with the rules set out in the call for proposals. To submit your proposal, follow the link below: 

submission system

APPLICATION FORM

The application form is composed of 3 parts:
1. Part A – Application form – with the modifications published in the ERRATUM
2. Part B – Budget
3. Part C – Technical capacity – with the modifications published in the ERRATUM

Erratum – modifications to Parts A and C
Erratum – modifications to Guidelines for grant applicants
Erratum – modifications to Annex 1 (logframe) to Part A

Presentation of the Call for Proposals
→ slides
→ video presentation (webinar)

Annexes:
Annex to Part A:
• Annex 1 Logical Framework
Included in Part C:
• Annex 1 – Declaration of the lead applicant for the lead applicant only
• Annex 2 – Declaration of Honour for all applicants
• Annex 3 – Mandate for co-applicant (Power of Attorney) for co-applicant(s) only
• Annex 4 – Previous experience for all applicants
• Annex 5 – Composition of the team for the lead applicant
• Annex 6 – CVs of the staff for all applicants (Technical capacity and relevant staff CVs)
• Annex 7 – Financial identification form for the lead applicant only
• Annex 8 – Statement turnover for all applicants
• Annex 9 – Checklist filled in for lead applicant
• Annex 10 – Annual accounts 2018, 2019 for the lead applicant only

Documents for information and useful links
Annex G: Standard grant contract
• Annex II: general conditions
• Annex III: special conditions
    • Annex 6 (to Annex G III) EU4BCC Visual Identity Guide
    • Annex 7 (to Annex G III) Video-Picture-Data Consent
    • Annex 8 (to Annex G III) EU4BCC privacy policy
• Annex IV: contract award rules
• Annex V: standard request for payment
• Annex VI (1): model interim narrative report
• Annex VI (2): model final narrative report
• Annex VI (3): model financial report
• Annex J – Information on the tax regime applicable to grant contracts
• Annex K – Guidelines and checklist for assessing budget and simplified cost options

• Link to PraG: https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/prag/document.do?nodeNumber=6

FAQ

This section was produced on the basis of the questions received through the project’s contact email (eu4bcc@eurochambres.eu), during the networking sessions, and during the presentation of the call for proposals. Please note the project team is not allowed to give answers to questions by email and this is the reason why this FAQ section has been created.
The FAQ will be updated on a weekly basis.
The deadline to ask for clarifications concerning this call is Friday, 9 April (17:00, Brussels time). The last update of the FAQ will be published on Monday, April 19 (17:00, Brussels time).

SUBMISSION

No, only the EU lead applicant must register to the submission system and submit the full application.

No, the deadline to submit applications will remain 30 April (17.00 Brussels time).

Many online tools are available (https://www.ilovepdf.com/, https://www.sejda.com/, etc.)

Many online tools are available, among which the Adobe online pdf compress: https://www.adobe.com/be_en/acrobat/online/compress-pdf.html

To download the FAQ section click here. 
 

🌟 CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST – CONSORTIA – CLOSED

The EU4BCC project aims to support sustainable economic development and job creation in the EaP countries by helping SMEs to grow – especially by promoting increased trade, encouraging inward investment and fostering business links with companies in the EU.

In the EU4Business: Connecting Companies, 5 Sectorial Consortia will be selected through Call for Expressions of Interest (EoI). Each Consortium will comprise a minimum of 1 EU and 1 EaP Chambers (maximum 4 EU & EaP Chambers per sector) who will manage the selected sector aiming at the implementation of the long term strategy developed by Board of Experts towards improving the competitiveness of the sector covered.

This Call for Expressions of Interest (EoI) is launched to identify, for each sector, EU and EaP Chambers (CCIs) which will be responsible for monitoring, supervising and reporting the subgrants taking into account the Board of Sectorial Experts’ recommendations.

Deadline to submit expressions of interest: FRIDAY, 17 JULY 2020

Candidates interested to apply are invited to submit an application in accordance with the rules set out in the call. In order to submit your proposal please follow the link below: 

application form
 

Presentation of the Call for Expressions of Interest:
→ slides
→ video presentation (webinar)

General clarifications on the Call for Expressions of Interest

FAQ

This section has been produced on the basis of the questions received through the project’s contact email (eu4bcc@eurochambres.eu), during the networking sessions, and during the presentation of the call for expressions of interest. Please note the project team is not allowed to give answers to questions by email and this is the reason why this FAQ section has been created.

The FAQ will be updated on a weekly basis.
The deadline to ask for clarifications concerning this call is TUESDAY, 23 JUNE. The last update of the FAQ will be published on Friday, June 26.

To download the FAQ section click here.