PUblic authorities Role Enhancing COmpetitiveness of SMeS
PURE COSMOS brings together two of the big challenges facing the EU: the need to stimulate and support SMEs and the need to reduce the weight of public administration.  

So PURE COSMOS aims to improve the effectiveness of public support for SMEs by 15%, cutting costs by 10% and improving quality by 20%.  We will develop highly integrated approaches to deliver these improvements and we will especially target entrepreneurs aged 25-40.

We will improve regional policies through innovative new projects and by improving governance so that the different stakeholders can agree common solutions.  We will do this by:
* analysing partners’ plans through peer review,
* identifying good practices that will improve these plans, studying them through Study Visits, importing them via special workshops and Regional Action Plans.
We will closely involve SMEs in the work. 

The project’s main outputs will benefit SMEs, especially young entrepreneurs.  They are:
* New projects to implement advanced services such as e-payments tools, One Stop Shop, “digital by default” models, digital-skills support.
* Improved governance through IT administrative solutions, regional legislation review, simplifying and speed up the launching of new businesses calls. 
All Action Plans will be prepared using intense cooperation between the key decision-makers (horizontal cooperation) and between the city and the MAs (vertical cooperation). The project will also work closely with the IE Policy Learning Platform.