Call for Proposals and Tenders from European Commission: Catalyzing Creative Industries Development in Armenia
The global objective of this call for proposals is the development of the Armenian economy by supporting the creation and strengthening of small businesses in the cultural and creative industries sector, contributing to the country’s job creation and socio-economic growth.
The specific objective(s) of this call for proposals are:
To support Armenian creatives to set up, grow and expand viable and sustainable businesses with a national and global outreach by providing a proper mix of financial and business development services to unlock the creatives’ and CCIs potential.
To enable the upscaling of entrepreneurial skills of Armenian creatives to support them to establish sustainable businesses by increasing their knowhow in company creation and management, as well as to improve the conditions for market access for CCIs through increased business capacities of different sub-sectors.
- To improve the governance and effectiveness of the Armenian entrepreneurial ecosystem of the cultural and creative industries sector by capacitating ecosystem players and enablers to work with and for creatives and by providing them with sustainable options to build a more effective support system.
- To enhance the infrastructure for sustainable creative industries through effective hard (physical) and soft investments, networking, effective business support and effective collaborations
The priorities of this call for proposals are:
Priority 1: Enhance the growth of the skillset of creatives, to encompass, along the artistic competencies that exist, a set of entrepreneurial skills relative to products and services that are in the ideation and development phases.
Priority 2: Enable the build-up and implementation of a set of sustainable financial and business development services focused on the needs of local creative entrepreneurs and that allows them to introduce products and services to national and international markets.
Priority 3: Improve the connection with the needed financial sources within the various stages of development of the creative companies, allowing creatives to access finance.
Priority 4: Enable creative people to network among themselves to draw upon the opportunities through collaborative projects.
Priority 5: Support the involvement and engagement of all relevant creative ecosystem players and enablers to leverage on the creative and business support structures that already exist in the country, which would provide improved services to creative entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs so that competitive advantages can be exploited.
Applications should reflect the intention to report against relevant SMART, sex-disaggregated indicators.
Financial Allocation Provided by the Contracting Authority
The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 3 000 000. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds.
Size of grants
Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- minimum amount: EUR 3 000 000
- maximum amount: EUR 3 000 000
Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum percentages of total eligible costs of the action:
- Minimum percentage: 50% of the total eligible costs of the action.
- Maximum percentage: 80% of the total eligible costs of the action (see also Section 2.1.5).
Please note that in case of different maximum co-financing rate for local and non-local organisations, international organisations are not entitled to claim the maximum co-financing rate as they may never be considered as a local organisation even though they have local offices or headquarters established in the country.
The balance (i.e. the difference between the total cost of the action and the amount requested from the contracting authority) must be financed from sources other than the general budget of the Union or the European Development Fund.
Where a grant is financed by the European Development Fund, any mention of European Union financing must be understood as referring to European Development Fund financing.