LIFE & SMEs Part 1

The LIFE Cyclamen Team, together with the Cyprus Employers & Industrialists Federation (OEB), organised an online two-day Info Event titled “LIFE and SMEs” on May 13th and 26th, 2021.

The purpose of this Info Event was to inform SMEs in Cyprus about the LIFE Programme and how they can benefit from it, thus encouraging them to participate during the 2021 Call for Proposals. During this Info Event, we had with us six guest speakers from Greece, who shared their experience with the LIFE Programme and the various gains achieved through this funding instrument.

During the two-day Info Event, participants also had the opportunity to learn in brief about the basic characteristics of the LIFE Programme in relation to SMEs. For example, the focus on concrete implementation actions, rather than research and the emphasis LIFE puts on the sustainability of projects and their results. The LIFE Programme helps companies bring their green products, technologies, services and processes to the market; therefore, special reference was made to Close-to-Market (C2M) projects and their key characteristics. Moreover, the 4 sub-programmes in the new LIFE programme 2021 – 2027 were shortly presented, along with the draft timeline for this year’s Call for proposals.

This is the recording of the first Part of the event (May 13th, 2021).