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POLREC: Internationalisation Open call – Matchmaking mission

The POLREC project is a collaborative project between 5 European clusters and:  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.

POLREC Internationalisation Open Call: match-making mission

POLREC Internationalisation Open Call provides financial support to European SMEs working in the field of polymers & elastomers industries.  It aims to facilitate SMEs internationalisation strategy by supporting their participation to an international match-making mission organised in Quebec, Canada (Match-making mission sub-grant), in relation to Polymer recycling solutions (mechanical, chemical and digital).

Rewarded applicants will obtain support for participating to a 5-days match-making mission on innovative Polymer-recycling solutions organised by the POLREC consortium from the 3^rd to the 7^th of February 2025, in Quebec, Canada for a budget of 3600 EUR per SME, with an overall budget of 132 000EUR.

To be selected for funding the SMEs should explain their interest to participate to an exploratory and match-making mission on Polymer-recycling solutions in Canada. The SMEs should demonstrate that they are developing, or plan to develop, projects around polymer-recycling solutions and that their participation to an exploratory & match-making mission on the Canadian market will be of added-value for their activity.

The call will open from 31^st May 2024 until 31^st August 2024 18:00 CET. 

• Objectives:

  The aim of the POLREC Internationalisation Open Call is to invite SMEs from plastics, rubbers and composites industries to facilitate their internationalisation strategy and connect to new markets outside their national scope. The main goal is to support European SME in expanding their European network, developing international partnerships by exporting the European know-how on polymer recycling solutions, reaching new markets in European countries and outside Europe and developing new value chains to increase the European strategic autonomy on raw materials for polymer production.

• Elegible applicants:

  Eligible applicants of this Open Call are SMEs from the Polymers and Elastomer ecosystem established in EU Member States and Single-Market-Program countries.

  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.

  They should be implementing or planning to implement or improve solutions for the recycling of industrial polymer waste (For example: SMEs generating plastic or rubber waste and looking for a recycling process to recycle their waste, SME recyclers, SMEs working on the development of recycling technologies).

  The eligibility conditions for this Open Call are described in section 5 of the Guide for Applicant.

  Financial support:

  • Match-making mission: maximum budget of 3600 EUR per SME, with an overall budget of 132.000 EUR.

  Additional documentation:

  • POLREC Internationalisation Open Call - Guidelines for Applicants
  • POLREC Internationalisation Open Call - Summary match-making mission Quebec (Canada)
• Maximum Budget per application: 3600
• Type of activity supported: Internationalization
• Type of financial support: Lump sum
• Start date: 30/05/2024 00:00
• End date: 31/08/2024 12:00
• Elegible countries: Austria | Belgium | Bulgaria | Croatia | Cyprus | Czech Republic | Denmark | Estonia | Finland | France | Germany | Greece | Hungary | Ireland | Italy | Liechtenstein | Latvia | Lithuania | Luxemburg | Malta | Netherlands | Norway | Poland | Portugal | Romania | Slovakia | Slovenia | Spain | Sweden | Albania | Armenia | Iceland | Moldova | Montenegro | North Macedonia | Serbia | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Turkey | Ukraine
• Contact name: Roxane Girard
• Email Address: roxane.girard@polymeris.fr
• Phone number: +33 0631310450
• Link to guides for applicants: https://clustersubmissionplatform.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/POLREC-Internationalisation-Open-call-Matchmaking-mission-Guide-for-applicants.pdf
• Link to profile page at the ECCP : https://profile.clustercollaboration.eu/profile/cluster-partnership-initiative/f1bcb89c-745c-48d8-b78e-dbf0c0d262d6
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