This action supports the establishment and development of European platforms of Centres of Vocational Excellence, contributing to regional development, innovation, and smart specialisation strategies, as well as to international collaborative platforms.

The platforms are open for the involvement of countries with well-developed vocational excellence systems, as well as those in the process of developing similar approaches.

The platforms are aimed at exploring the full potential of VET institutions to play a proactive role in support of growth and innovation.

Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) is a regional network, a one-stop-shop for SMEs seeking to improve their competitiveness. To do this, EEN provides SMEs with business support and advises them on opportunities on the internal market. EEN cooperates with regional initiatives such as Smart Specialisation Platforms, Digital Innovation Hubs, Knowledge and Innovation Communities and Key Enabling Technology Centres (KETs).

The Creative Innovation Lab will incentivise players from all cultural and creative sectors to design and test innovative digital solutions with potential positive long-term impact on multiple cultural and creative sectors.

The Lab will facilitate the creation of innovative solutions (e.g. tools, models and methodologies) that can apply to the audiovisual sector and at least another creative and/or cultural sector. Solutions should be easily replicable and have potential for market penetration.

European Networks are open to all the cultural and creative sectors.

This funding opportunity will support projects by highly representative multi-country membership-based networks of organisations having a shared mission, governance rules, members' rights and obligations, etc. Networks should be composed of a coordinating organisation and their members.

European Platforms’ projects are open to all within the cultural and creative sectors. This funding opportunity will support projects that aim to increase the visibility and circulation of European emerging artists and works outside their own borders (in Europe and beyond). It supports projects that will increase cultural access, participation in culture, as well as audience engagement and development. Projects are also meant to contribute to EU policy priorities in the culture field.