POLREC: Networking Call 2025
POLREC Networking Open Call provides financial support to European SMEs working in the field of polymers & elastomers industries. Up to 40 applicants will obtain support on the attendance to European business/ trade fairs, conferences, exhibitions and events for a maximum budget of 1.500€ per SME within Europe and a maximum budget of 2.500€ per SME for oversea events.
The call will open from 15th of January until march 14th 2025
The POLREC project is a collaborative project between the 4 European clusters and a technological centre: Polymeris (coordinator), CENTIMFE, Cluster Mav, Wirtschaftsförderung Raum Heilbronn, and Plast Center Danmark/DMN. It aims to support SMEs in recycling their high and low value polymers waste, develop value-chains interlinkage with other European SMEs and exploit international business opportunities linked to polymer recycling.
During the 3 years-period the project plan to support up to 250 SMEs through financial support to third parties and dedicated services to encourage the adoption of recycling technologies, train the SMEs’ workforce on those new technologies and enable them to participate in international trade fair and matchmaking events.
We would like to invite SMEs from plastics, rubbers and composites industries to facilitate their internationalisation strategy and connect to new markets outside their national scope through the attendance and participation of business/trade fairs, exhibitions, conventions and conferences. This is imminent to broaden their European network and to find out about market requirements in different countries. New suppliers for procurement options can be found as well as new sales markets explored. This means that new value chains within Europe can be developed.
The POLREC Open Call offers funding as follows:
– The attendance to business/trade fairs & exhibitions
– The attendance to conferences, conventions and forums
To be selected for funding the SMEs should send in the date, venue, link to the event and a reason for attending. The events should take place in 2025 until lates mid July 2025. The amount of the financial support to be distributed to a given SME will be defined based on quotation from the service provider for the participation to an event.
- NACE codes allowed to participate: All
- Objectives:The SMEs targeted by this call can cover various sectors, such as: transport and mobility, construction, renewable energy, digital and electronics, health, consumer goods, industrial and food packaging. Ideally, they are an SME generating a plastic or rubber waste stream, that they want to recycle rather than incinerate or landfill.- Relevance of the event for the applicant- Relevance of the networking to the objectives for POLREC
- The application must be submitted through the Cluster Submission Platform. For further information about this Call, you can consult our Guide for Applicants that detail more about this Call.
- – Relevance of the identified stakeholders to meet at the event
- The following criteria should be met:
- Elegible applicants:Eligibility criteria:◦ Age
The applicant must be minimum 18 years old in order to have the legal capacity to sign agreements and to participate.For further information please refer to the Guide for Applicants. - List of possible events:
- ◦ Geographical
The applicants should visit the events in an EU Member state or in any of the other COSME participating countries, preferred as per list. - ◦ Legal SMEs from a COSME participating country (SME Definition as per EU)
- Maximum Budget per application: 2500
- Type of activity supported: Networking
- Type of financial support: Grants
- Start date: 15/01/2025 10:00
- End date: 14/03/2025 18:00
Más información: Clusters Submission Platform