SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise)
In this tab, you can declare your organisation as SME. Please note that there are two ways to declare the status:
When SME is not a requirement to participate
For funding opportunities where the SME status is NOT a requirement to participate:
In this case, a self-declaration is enough. You can declare the status when registering the organisation (see Provide the Legal information). You can change your status at any time:
In the SME tab, scroll down in the page and click on Edit self-declaration to change the value. After selecting Yes or No, click on the Submit button to save your choice or on the Cancel button to discard it.
When SME is a requirement to participate
For funding opportunities where the SME status is a requirement to participate:
In this case, a self-declaration is not enough and you can be blocked in the Submission system if your organisation has not done the self-assessment or does not qualify as SME.
To run the SME self-assessment, click on Start SME self-assessment to start the assessment, or if you already started and assessment, which has not been submitted yet, click on Continue SME self-assessment to resume.
For full details on the assesment, see SME wizard — Step by step.
The provided declarations display as rows in the SME data section:
Click on the Eye button if you want to view the result of your SME self-assessment declaration:
Special case: mid-cap enterprise
Mid-cap self-declaration
In some cases, organisations may self-declared as mid-cap. For this scenario, you will be required to complete the SME self-assessment first.
The first requirement is that your organisation does NOT qualify as SME. If this is the case, when submitting the results, click the drop-down next to Submit, you have the option to specify if it would fall under the mid-cap categorisation or simply as non-SME:
