Thanks to the COSME grant, the EU SME Centre in China will further enlarge its audience and develop its activities vis-à-vis SMEs from EU and COSME participating countries.

The overall objective of the Centre is to develop the presence of target SMEs on the Chinese market, to increase and diversify their knowledge acquisition, exports, imports and investments. The EU SME Centre intends to achieve this goal by helping target SMEs to overcome barriers and constraints they face in their efforts to enter the Chinese market.

The specific objectives of this COSME call for proposals are as follows: