Monthly Archives: June 2018
Оpen Call – Tourism, Culture & Creativity
COS-TOURSYN-2018-3-01: Supporting the development and promotion of transnational thematic tourism products—exploiting synergies between tourism and cultural and creative industries
This call for proposals seeks to support projects focusing on existing or new tourism experiences which build on the creative and innovation potential of CCIs to develop services and products.
The Commission wishes to support projects which are innovative in their approach, propose sustainable solutions and are based on the close cooperation with and involvement of tourism and CCIs-related SMEs and professionals.
The general objective of the action is to explore the spill-over effects of culture and creativity on tourism products and services in terms of:
– revitalising tourism attractions and destinations, and diversifying transnational tourism experiences
– prolonging seasonality of EU destinations and/or enhancing sustainability of tourism offers
– boosting innovation across transnational tourism value chains.
The specific objectives of the action:
– developing innovative solutions or management tools for tourism attractions or destinations through cooperation between tourism and CCI SMEs
– exploring new ways of engaging visitors, with the help of CCIs-related companies or professionals, to revitalise existing tourism products/services and/or create new ones
– creating solid public-private partnerships in the area of tourism and CCIs and ensuring the exchange of knowledge and experience within the partnerships
Taking the above into account, this call for proposals intends to co-fund projects which put a particular focus on transnational cooperation between tourism and CCIs-related SMEs to develop and promote innovative yet tangible tourism offers. Such tourism offers need to capitalise on the creative potential of CCIs to develop innovative services and products and/or use cultural and creative content to enhance existing or develop new tourism experiences.
Eligibility of applicants
Applicants must be legal entities and must correspond to the definition of at least one of the target organisations mentioned in Section 6 of the call that are active in the field of tourism, cultural and creative industry (CCIs).
Only applications from legal entities established in the following countries are eligible:
– EU Member States
– countries participating in the COSME programme pursuant to Article 6 of the COSME Regulation
For British applicants: Please be aware that eligibility criteria must be complied with for the entire duration of the grant. If the United Kingdom withdraws from the EU during the grant period without concluding an agreement with the EU ensuring in particular that British applicants continue to be eligible, you will cease to receive EU funding (while continuing, where possible, to participate) or be required to leave the project on the basis of Article 34.3.1(b) of the grant agreement.
Please also note that the consortium must gather a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 8 members/partners—different legal entities—covering at least 5 eligible countries—as listed in Section 6.
The consortium must be composed of at least:
1. four SMEs – Small and Medium Sized enterprises: 2 active in the tourism and 2 in the CCIs sector; and
2. one national or regional or local public authority
For more details, please consult the text of the call available below.
Submission of Proposals
The deadline for electronic submission is 19 July 2018 17.00 hours (Brussels time).
Access the Participant Portal to draft and submit proposals.
Important Notice
For any technical problems encountered with the submission system, please contact the Service desk: EC-RESEARCH-IT-HELPDESK@ec.europa.eu Tel: +32 (2) 29 92222 (during office hours).
The electronic submission reference for this call is COS-TOURSYN-2018-3-01.
Information event
A general “COSME Info Day: Opportunities to Participate in Calls for Proposals” took place on 11 June 2018 at the EASME offices in Brussels. Further information is available online.
Partner and previous projects search
If you are looking for partners to apply to this call, you may wish to consider using the Cordis database where you have the option to create partnership requests. For people who already have a Partner profile in Cordis database, they can select a specific COSME call when they create a partnership request. Each partnership request will then show up as being associated to the call to attract others interested in the same call.
In the case you do not have a profile, you can create one. Should you encounter any difficulties with the Cordis database, please contact the Cordis helpdesk.
You may also contact your nearest Enterprise Europe Network expert who could assist you in finding potential partners.
Another useful source of information on past and existing projects co-financed under COSME is also available through the COSME Hub.
Questions/Answers
Potential applicants should address questions related to the content of this call by e-mail to EASME-COSME-TOURSYN-2018@ec.europa.eu . Only questions sent to this functional mailbox will be answered.
Answers will be published periodically and within a reasonable period of time on this page. (Refer to FAQ below).
Deadline for submitting questions related to the content of this call: 12 July 2018.
Information to applicants on the results of the evaluation
EASME expects to be able to inform applicants on the outcome of the evaluations during the course of December 2018.
European Heritage Awards
The purpose of this call for proposals is to select an organisation/consortium capable of organising the European Heritage Awards for the Commission for the period 2019-2021 (as of the 2019 edition with preparatory work in 2018). The work entails the organisation of procedures for the selection of the award winners, the organisation of the award ceremony and the promotion of the awards and their winners. Emphasis should be given to a greater visibility of the awards through communication and network activities within the sector to exchange information and best practices.
The aim of this call for proposals is to ensure the continuation of the EU Prize for cultural heritage under the new name European Heritage Awards beyond the 2018 edition and to be coherent with the objectives of the EYCH.
Please find more information here.
Call for Proposals – Organisation of the EU Prize for Literature (EUPL)
The purpose of this Call for Proposals is to select an organisation or consortium that can organise and implement the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) for the next three years 2019-2021.
The EUPL is a prize for literary talent, awarded annually to new and emerging European authors for recently published literary works of fiction. Launched by the European Commission in 2009, the Prize is open to countries participating in the Creative Europe programme.
The EUPL aims to:
•showcase and put a spotlight on Europe’s diverse wealth of contemporary fiction;
•raise the profile of winning authors outside their home country and help them cross borders and reach broader readership;
•raise general awareness and stimulate interest in the entire book sector about the literary diversity in Europe;
•promote actively the publishing, translation, selling and reading of books from other European countries;
•Encourage transnational circulation of literature, both in Europe and internationally.
The total budget for the co-financing for the 2019 edition of the EUPL is estimated at 500.000,00 EUR. The EU grant is limited to a maximum co-financing rate of 80 %.
Deadline: 14/09/2018 19:00 CET
Read the call for proposals here.
Workshop “Cultural Heritage in the Function of Cultural Tourism Development”
Within the third day of the Creative Europe Forum 2018, on 22nd June in the space of Vuk’s Memorial Museum, 2 Kralja Milana St, starting at 10 a.m. a workshop entitled “Cultural Heritage in the Function of Cultural Tourism Development” will be held.
Cultural tourism is one of the fastest growing forms of tourism today with partaking with 40% in European tourism. Precisely cultural heritage frequently represents the axis of tourism development, while tourism can contribute to its preservation, revitalisation and promotion, and apart from the economic effect, it can improve the awareness and care for cultural resources.
The workshop is intended for representatives of cultural institutions and organisations and all parties interested in developing cultural tourism projects, and especially those preparing to apply for the Creative Europe programme.
The aim of the workshop is to encourage participants to think in the direction of interpreting and using cultural heritage to create new touristic content.
Workshop participants will be familiarised with the notion and meaning of cultural tourism, but also examples of projects in Serbia and Europe. The main part of the workshop will be dedicated to group work with the aim of designing and developing project activities and the manner of utilising cultural heritage for the purpose of tourism development, all on a specific example of a cultural resource in Serbia.
The workshop is led by Lana Gunjić, holder of a BA in Tourismology and an MA in Cultural Management.
In order to apply for participation in the workshop it is required to fill in the application that can be found on this link by Sunday 17th June at 17 p.m. The number of workshop participants is limited.
Lana Gunjić (Belgrade, 1991), holder of a BA in Tourismology and an MA in Cultural Policy and Management, graduated from the Faculty of Geography, University of Belgrade – Department of Tourismology (2014), and then completed interdisciplinary studies at the UNESCO Department of Cultural Policy and Management, a joint programme with the University Lyon 2, in France (2015). She is also the President of the Association “Mladi za turizam” (2015-) where she has been active since 2011 and worked on organising seminars, holding workshops and realising projects. She also works as an associate of the magazine “Turistički putokaz” (2011, 2012), as an intern at the Tourism Organisation of Belgrade (2013) and in the Cultural Centre of Serbia in Paris (2015). She was a coordinator of the Belgrade Irish Festival (2016). She is an associate in cultural and tourism projects, and she is currently engaged in the EU project “Supervision of works for rehabilitation of the Franciscan Monastery in Bač” as a junior tourism expert. She works as a coordinator in the Association Independent Cultural Scene of Serbia.
