The promotion of handicraft products and support of craftsmen

Please see section “Definitions for the purpose of this call”, in particular p. 18. For the purpose of this call, crafts and industrial products - as Regulation 2023/2411 will enter into force on December 1st, 2025 – cover a wider scope than this Regulation, taking into account also registration procedures and a sufficient leeway period for craft SME to register.

Please note that the list provided under this section is an indicative list of producers of products which should in any case be deemed as craftsmen for the purpose of this call. Other producers of craft and industrial products might also be eligible, provided they fulfil the conditions.

Please refer to p. 26 of the call for the eligibility criteria for the consortium composition. The call does not specifically require a public institution of national scope.

Please note that the three work packages are structured under one topic (PPPA-MOVE-2025-P032404 — The promotion of handicraft products and support of craftsmen). As per p. 27, Applications will only be considered eligible if their content corresponds wholly (or at least in part) to the topic description for which they are submitted. The successful proposal will be invited for grant preparation; the other ones will be put on the reserve list or rejected.

The applicant is to be expected to work on all Work Packages.

The applicant might be in the form of more beneficiaries under one consortium and the WP requires the applicant (hence eventually a consortium) to put in place a support mechanism to provide direct financial and/or technical support and/or ad hoc mentoring to collaborative projects with SMEs. They specify which criteria apply to collaborative projects to be eligible for the support. E.g. a collaborative project with only one tourism SME would not be eligible. Please note that 10 collaborative projects across at least 4 different eligible countries are required (p.12).

This might look similar but is not to be confused with the criteria under p. 27, specifying the criteria required for applicants to submit a proposal as a consortium.

If technical issues with the sheet linkage persist, please convert each sheet into a .pdf format. Then enter the consolidated figures into another excel sheet, which is also to be converted into .pdf format prior to upload.

Each entity is to sign their own respective Declaration of Honour. Please notice that the portal only allows upload of one single file, so the DoH need to be merged into one pdf before uploading.

For eligibility, the minimum conditions of participating entities as laid down within the the Work Packages need to be met.

Please note that as per page 35f, participating countries as well as number and types of participating entities influence the award criteria, in particular for Relevance and Quality of the proposal.

The link is indeed the correct one.

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• The EU budget foreseen for this grant procedure launched through a call for proposals, meaning for the “The promotion of handicraft products and support of craftsmen” is 970.000 euro.

This means that the proposal submitted by an applicant in order to implement what requested with this call for proposal will be awarded a maximum of 970.000 euro.

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide any information on this question. Please note that the call is a PPPA.

Please see page 38 for all relevant information. Following grant signature, a prefinancing payment to start on work on the project (maximum of 50% of the maximum grant) will be paid out.

Interim payments are explicitly not foreseen