Call: Boosting the uptake of digitalisation, innovation and new technologies in tourism through transnational cooperation and capacity building

COSME is the EU programme for the Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).
COSME supports SMEs in the following areas:

• Accessing finance
• Opening markets
• Supporting entrepreneurs
• Improving business conditions

• Reinforcing transnational and cross-border cooperation, in particular integration of tourism businesses and stakeholders in transnational and inter-regional innovation ecosystems to enable smart and sustainable growth of tourism SMEs;
• Fostering SMEs’ capacity and skills to improve their use of new digital technologies, resulting in new business models in tourism;
• Fostering innovative solutions for improving tourism management and the tourism offer through cooperation within the tourism ecosystem, including public-private partnerships.

• a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 different legal entities covering at least 5 eligible countries; 
• a minimum of one but not more than two public authorities and bodies;
• a minimum of one business support organisation.