EASME - Executive Agency for SMEs

The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) has been set-up by the European Commission to manage on its behalf several EU programmes in the fields of SME support & innovation, environment, climate action, energy and maritime affairs.

SME support & innovation

COSME

The EU programme for the Competitiveness of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). It runs from 2014 to 2020 with a planned budget of €2.3bn.

EIC Accelerator (SME Instrument)

The EIC Accelerator (SME Instrument) is part of the European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot and supports market-creating innovation in small companies with significant growth potential and global ambitions.

EIC Fast Track to Innovation

Fast Track to innovation (FTI) is part of the European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot and helps close-to-the-market innovations jointly developed by small companies and their industrial partners get on the market faster.

Horizon 2020 INNOSUP

Horizon 2020 INNOSUP aims to test new approaches for better innovation support through funding opportunities for innovation actors across Europe.

Enterprise Europe Network

Enterprise Europe Network helps small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make the most of business opportunities in Europe and beyond.

European IPR Helpdesk

The European IPR Helpdesk offers free-of-charge, first-line support on Intellectual Property matters to beneficiaries of EU-funded research projects and EU SMEs involved in transnational partnership agreements.

International intellectual property helpdesk

The helpdesks support European small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to both protect and enforce their Intellectual Property rights in or relating to China, Latin America and Southeast Asia.

Your Europe Business

Practical guide to doing business in Europe.

Environment

Energy

Maritime

European Maritime and Fisheries Fund

EASME supports the European Commission in developing and implementing the Integrated Maritime Policy and the Common Fisheries Policy.

News

  • 06/04/2021

    New mandate of the Agency and portfolio reassignment
    As of 1 April 2021, EASME ceased its operations  and a new agency, the European Innovation Council and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Executive Agency (EISMEA), was established. The EASME website is not updated anymore and will be archived shortly. EASME mandate and activities have been reassigned as follows:
  • 31/03/2021

    The future is bright. The future is LIFE
    Since 1992 the LIFE programme has helped around 5 500 projects flourish across the EU and in third countries. Here is a preview of the new-look EU fund for environment and climate action, which will run from now up until 2027.
  • 24/03/2021

    Handy new tools to help you with the new EU energy labels!
    On 1 March 2021, dishwashers, washing machines, refrigerators, and electronic displays with ratings as A+, A++ or A+++, returned to a simpler A-G scale. 
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