Call: Statistics for Family Businesses

COSME is the EU programme for the Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).
COSME supports SMEs in the following areas:

• Accessing finance
• Opening markets
• Supporting entrepreneurs
• Improving business conditions

The aim of this call is to provide policy-makers and relevant stakeholders for credible, comparable and systematic information and indicators on the role of the family businesses in national economies and to offer usable and practical information to stakeholders for their decision making.

The projects selected should also support the development of statistics for the first time in countries which have not collected yet statistics on family business. The European Commission will co-finance actions carried out by statistical offices, or by other organisations but in partnership with a statistical office (national, federal or regional) for the collection of statistical data, measuring the performance of each group of family owned enterprises within the economy, the value of the goods and services produced, the employment generated, evaluation the sector in terms of its contribution to GDP, jobs, capital investment and tax revenues, its role in the balance of payment and other information. 

Applicants must correspond to the definition of the following target organisations: 14 - statistical offices (national, federal or regional) or - any other public or private entity whose activities involve collection of statistics for businesses; in this case the statistical office (national, federal or regional) must be present in the proposal as one of the partners. Such entities may include: public entities responsible for or active in the fields of economic affairs, entrepreneurship, business support or related issues, e.g. national/regional authorities, governmental agencies; education and training providers (public and private); chambers of commerce and industry, chambers of handicrafts or similar bodies, and business support organisations, business associations and business support networks.