Specific call COSME Facilitating access to regulation for light Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS)

The European Commission has published a specific call under the EU programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME). The call COS-RPAS-2014-2-03 Facilitating access to regulation for light Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) closes February 18, 2015. The budget of the call is € 1 million. For further information about this call and documents please click here.

The main aim of this call is to strengthen competitiveness of the European tourism sector by encouraging the extension of the tourism season and by increasing internal mobility of seniors and young people. The general objectives are to:
1. Support the extension of the tourism season, hence contributing to improve SME's competitiveness and jobs growth;
2. Foster transnational cooperation among the widest possible number of actors along the tourism value chain;
3. Facilitate European public-private partnerships;
4. Foster seniors and young people wider sense of European citizenship through increased intra-EU mobility.