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AIBC EUROCLUSTERS Open Call for Training & Skills
This Open Call supports Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in accessing to training activities for supporting their staff in the development of their competences, improving specific digital capacities and skills that can further enable digitalisation and greener transition of the company through ICT (AI or BC), notably in the manufacturing, mobility, logistics and energy sectors.
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Applications must be presented by SMEs and start-ups (in the form of SMEs) registered in an EU Member State or a country participating in the Single Market Programme (SMP). The beneficiary SME must work with Artificial Intelligence and/or Blockchain technologies or come from one of the industrial ecosystems targeted by AIBC: manufacturing, mobility, logistics and energy.
SMEs (as defined by the EU legislation (Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC and the SME user guide) working on the AI & BC technologies, and from the manufacturing, mobility, logistics and energy sectors interested in adopting AI & BC solutions to become more digital, resilient and green.
Companies that were selected for funding in the previous AIBC Open Call for Training are not eligible to this call.
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Applications can include more than one training activity, as long as:
- The training activities are linked to each other, meaning there is a training plan to follow with a specific objective and impact for the SME.
- The total cost of the training activities altogether does not exceed 5.000,00 EUR, or if it does, the SME must declare that they will cover the remaining cost.
- The training activities proposed have a cost of at least 500,00 EUR.
These activities must include Artificial Intelligence / Blockchain technologies, support Green and Digital transition.
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AIBC has destined 72.420,00 EUR for supporting training and skills activities with this call.
Each beneficiary of this call can receive up to 5.000,00 EUR in the form of a lump-sum (thus, it is expected that at least 15 companies will receive financial support).
No co-financing is required from the selected companies. However, they must commit to ensure the necessary resources needed to carry out the activities and must have stable and sufficient sources of funding to maintain their activity throughout its development. This will be stated in the agreement that beneficiaries will sign before the start of the implementation. All the supporting documents are available in the Guidelines.
Beneficiaries can participate to the different AIBC EUROCLUSTERS Open Calls (project proposals, training, participation to international events, digitalisation services and product development) but a single beneficiary cannot receive more than 60.000,00 EUR overall. Only one application per call is allowed.
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Training activities must start after the signature of the agreement (April 2024) and be completed by September 2024.
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All needed information is available at the Call Guidelines above. The application form is available at the EUSurvey Platform and all the documents to successfully complete an application are found here: Supporting Documents.
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INFO&MATCH
The AIBC EUROCLUSTERS will facilitate access and connections to potential experts and entities through an online matchmaking platform: https://www.b2match.com/e/aibc-infomatch
Furthermore, the AIBC infodays presentations are available in the platform, together with the registrations, as well as other relevant information such as FAQ, training and events lists.
All interested organisations are invited to visit the platform and use it for organising meetings and developing partnerships, collaborations.
To be noted that AIBC EUROCLUSTERS only provides this platform as a support for networking activities, but all applications will be considered equally (independently on whether they from entities registered in the platform or not).
For any inquiries, reach out to us at aibc@piemonteinnova.it
The AIBC EUROCLUSTERS Project is funded under Grant Agreement no. 101074645 – SMP-COSME-2021-CLUSTER Call for proposals.
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