# Supporting sustainable competitiveness of tourism SME
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**topic id:** SMP-COSME-2026-TOURSME-01
**call id:** SMP-COSME-2026-TOURSME-01
**title:** Supporting sustainable competitiveness of tourism SME
**programme:** Single Market Programme
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2026-05-21T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2026-03-03T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/SMP-COSME-2026-TOURSME-01
**description:** Expected Outcome:
Qualitative and quantitative indicators for the action:
a) Number of countries and partners participating in transnational cooperation projects.
b) Replicability of projects supported, as assessed by the consortia under supervision of EISMEA, and their relevance to the policy priorities as detailed in the Transition Pathway for Tourism.
c) Quality and impact of the dissemination by the consortia of the results, best practices and developed solutions.
d) Number of SMEs supported.
Scope:
This call for proposals aims at supporting SMEs strengthening business approaches and becoming more competitive while fostering the green and digital transition, in line with the Tourism Transition Pathway (under the Industrial Strategy Update (COM (2021)350 final).
The action is expected to contribute to increasing the sustainable competitiveness of the European Tourism ecosystem, namely for the Tourism SMEs, by providing support, including with the intermediary of consortia of organisations of the relevant tourism industry stakeholders, and building capacities of tourism companies, particularly SMEs. Within the ongoing co-implementation of the Tourism Transition Pathway, SMEs shall get support to reinforce their competitiveness. It aims to boost innovation, resilience, sustainability and quality along the tourism value chain.
**conditions:** Conditions
1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in the call document.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible countries
described in the call document.

3. Other eligibility conditions
n/a

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
n/a

5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
n/a

5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described in the call document.

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in the call document.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
n/a

Call document and annexes:
 Call document
Application form templates
Standard proposal template (COSME) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Detailed budget template (COSME GFS 90%) 
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
SMP MGA 

Additional documents:
 SMP Work Programmes
SMP Regulation 2021/690: Single Market Programme establishment act
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment 
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement 
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual 
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions 
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
**action type:** SMP Grants for Financial Support
**budget:** 
  **budget Years Columns:** 
    - 2025
  **budget Topic Action Map:** 
    **113902:** 
      -         **action:** SMP-COSME-2026-TOURSME-01 - SMP-GFS SMP Grants for Financial Support
        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2025:** 6900000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2026-05-21
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 0
        **max Contribution:** 0
        **min Contribution:** 0
        **planned Opening Date:** 2026-03-03
**keywords:** SMP-COSME-2026-TOURSME-01, SMP-COSME-2026-TOURSME-01
**last synced at:** 2026-11-09T17:23:17.403+00:00

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