PHOENIX 4.0 supports tourism SMEs, which make up over 90% of Europe’s tourism sector and employ 12.3 million people. Tourism contributes 10% of the EU’s GDP and drives economic growth, employment, and social development. SMEs are key to offering unique experiences and boosting regional economies but face challenges like over-tourism, seasonality, workforce shortages, and the need for sustainable, digital, and resilient practices. PHOENIX 4.0 addresses these issues to build a greener, smarter, and more resilient tourism ecosystem.
Prishtina REA has been awarded as the official EEN Country Coordinator for Kosovo (2025-2028)!
Veterinary Improvement in WesternBalkans: Curriculum Reforming, Didactic Updating & Stakeholders Involvement for the Acquisition of the EU Standards (Erasmus-EDU-2025- CBHE)
Our project, “Professional Training for the Labour Market in the Gastronomy and Online Sales Sectors in the Pristina Region,” aims to enhance the competitive and innovative professional skills of women, young people, and job seekers in the fields of gastronomy, pastry-making, and online sales. This will be achieved through the provision of professional training, work-based practice, and support for sector-specific initiatives focused on developing new competitive products with strong potential for employment and self-employment in Pristina.
The EEN Kosovo will take a distinguishing-specialised-organized SME support and networking action, but are primarily defined by their objectives. Its key aim is to continuously increase its effectiveness in creating impact for SME clients and being able to adapting as necessary as needed to new SME’s facing challenges. Although, Prishtina REA through the initial EEN implementation phase installed the best EEN practices, as the EEN Kosovo coordinator (2022-2025). EEN Kosovo will continue professionally promoting EU policies and programmes, by collecting continuously valuable feedbacks from SMEs on the effectiveness of EU policies, providing functionally links between SMEs and EU policy making, while actively ensuring visibility, recognition and local awareness of EEN Kosovo activities and services.
The overall objective of the project is to enhance the competitiveness of Kosovo’s digital and traditional businesses by supporting growth of Kosovo’s ICT sector leading to growth and new job creation, in line with Kosovo ICT strategy.
The purpose of this contract is to bridge the digital and business skills gap in a sustainable manner that meets the needs of the market and increases the competitiveness of Kosovo’s digital and traditional businesses and to increase the export of Kosovar ICT businesses, and traditional businesses through the use of ICT.
Prishtina REA is responsible for designing appropriate implementation strategy for the Matching Grants Program (MGP) in accordance with criteria and procedures as set out in the Grants Manual and preparing templates for grant agreements, contracts with vendors and other operational instruments which would be included in the Grants Manual.
Activities included:
*MGP Strategy
*MGP Promotions and Communications
*Managing MGP Operations
*Grants Monitoring and Evaluation
The EEN Kosovo will take a distinguishing-specialised-organized SME support and networking action, but are primarily defined by their objectives. Its key aim is to continuously increase its effectiveness in creating impact for SME clients and being able to adapting as necessary as needed to new SME’s facing challenges. Although, Prishtina REA through the initial EEN implementation phase installed the best EEN practices, as the EEN Kosovo coordinator (2022-2025).