• Download and fill in the Annex 1 – Application Form in English;
• Download and fill in the Annex 2 – Declaration of Honour (verify if your organizations is a SME and declare your SME status in accordance with the SME definition of the European Union as part of the application via this link);
• Your organization must be registered on the extensive list at the following link:  https://deuscci.eu/open-call-tourism-smes/
• You must select at least one data expert and one artist/creative professional from the extensive list at the following link: https://deuscci.eu/first-european-database-data-for-artists/ (NB: Companies that have already business relationships with and/or have identified artists/data experts should invite these ones to register on the extensive list prior their application);
• Please read the Annex 3 – CultourData Action Plan Agreement to be signed just in case your SME will be selected.

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of the tourism sector can apply to receive financial support (one lump sum with a value of 7.000 €). In particular:

• Being a small – or medium-sized enterprise (SME), according to the definition in EU recommendation 2003/361
• Having an economic activity related to the tourism sector
• Being based in one of the following countries: Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands

Within the CulTourData call for lump sums, to be eligible tourism SMEs must fall under the following categories of tourism industries, in line with selected Eurostat classes:

• I5510 – Hotels and similar accommodation;
• I5520 – Holiday and other short-stay  accommodation;
• I5530 – Camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks;
• N79 – Travel agency, tour operator and other reservation service and related activities.

Exclusion criteria:

Applicants will be excluded from the evaluation process if the present the following elements:

• Receiving funds and support under the other COS-TOURINN projects (double funding is not allowed); 
• Presenting the characteristics of a “company in difficulty”, as defined by the EU Regulation n.651/2014 of the European Commission;
• Lack of administrative, technical, operational and financial capacity, necessary to implement the projects’ activities, as foreseen by art. 125 of the EU Regulation n. 1303/2013. 

The objectives will be:

1. creation of 2 extensive lists of actors to be drawn from in order to work in synchrony according to the needs of each actor (one long list for innovators, data experts, creatives and artists + a second list for tourism operators who want to invest in the effective use of data and experiment with new prototypes and projects);
2. launch of a call inviting actors on the extensive list to cooperate in order to propose projects and prototypes that can be financed with lump sums of 7,000€ each;
3. promote, guide and monitor the matching between the actors involved to help them move from idea to prototype both using lump sums and finding other types of financing, including self-financing of the project.

Each partner will have a supporting role to facilitate the meeting/matching between actors and support partners in their activities.

So one of the requirements to participate in the call and to promote the match between actors is to subscribe to one of the extensive lists depending on whether you are:

• an SME Open Call for Tourism SME (deuscci.eu) 
• or if you are an artist/creative/digital expert you can subscribe here OPEN CALL – How artists, innovators and experts use data intelligently (deuscci.eu).