EFFECT-SME Enhancing and Facilitating Funding Evaluation and data Collection Techniques focused on start-up/SME support programmes

The EFFECT-SME project’s main objective is to enhance the quality of start-ups’/SMEs’ innovation support programmes through the development of an efficient and effective methodology assessing the impact of the support programmes on start-ups/SMEs.

Assessment of the effectiveness of start-ups’/SMEs’ supporting measures and adaptation of lessons learned into the modification of current start-up/SME support programmes is the key aspect to continuous improvement of support and the policy itself. The aim of the project is to achieve improved, targeted and more efficient support to start-ups and SMEs.

The project partners will share own approaches to complete them with relevant desk research outputs, developing new topics and approaches to more effective monitoring and evaluation and to put the new impact methodology into practice.

The project consortium will apply Twinning+ methodology via 3 peer learning interactive workshops focused on impact evaluation of start-up/SME support programmes from different perspectives of 3 partners – combining different levels of experience, methodology approaches and balanced geographic scope: Czechia (MSIC), Germany (S2i) and Spain (Madri+d).

The desk research on available methodologies will complete the peer-learning of the partners. The Design Option Paper (DOP) on efficient impact evaluation will stand for the key deliverable of the project.

The innovative methodology will be disseminated through numerous business support networks for further exploitation by innovation agencies (IA) in Europe.Project duration: 3/2021 – 2/2022 Budget: 50 000 Euro