Funding for tourism courses

Our tourism courses give businesses relevant knowledge and practical tools. Apply for funding to run one of our courses.
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Service type
Grants
Target group
Businesses, networks or organisations in the tourism sector
Application deadline
Ongoing
How much
Up to 100 per cent of the course costs

Any company, network or organisation that wants to run our tourism courses. The courses are primarily aimed at senior and middle managers in small and medium-sized businesses.

  • External course instructor: All courses have a fixed price, which you can obtain from the course provider or from us.
  • Travel expenses: Course leaders' travel and accommodation expenses in accordance with government rates.
  • Staff costs for an internal course coordinator: Covers up to 15 hours of administrative planning and follow-up carried out by your company, at a rate of up to NOK 700 per hour.
  • Materials and equipment: Eligible costs for any materials used during the course.
  • Premises and equipment: Costs for renting the course venue.

The courses are suitable for all types of tourism businesses and usually run from lunchtime to lunchtime, with a follow-up day. Most courses also offer individual follow-up, either in person or online.

Read more about the content and price of each course:

  • Experience Development Course
  • Build visibility

We develop and deliver these courses through framework agreements with selected course providers.

Your local Innovation Norway office can tell you whether funding is still available in the budget to run a course. We can help you with your application and check whether other organisers are planning similar courses in your area, creating opportunities to collaborate.

To apply for course funding, log in to My page and create an application under 'Business development and innovation'.

Please note: Only people authorised to sign on behalf of the company can apply.

Here you will find guidance on completing your application

Before the course starts, at least ten companies must have registered with a binding commitment. All course participants must represent tourism businesses or relevant service businesses in the region.

  • We can help fund up to 100 per cent of the course costs, less any participant fees paid.
  • Each participant must confirm their attendance by signing the participant list. The list must include the company name, participant's name, telephone number, email address and signature. You must attach the participant list to the report, project accounts and request for payment of the grant.
  • We can only approve invoices from course providers (companies) that have a valid framework agreement to deliver the relevant course(s).
  • When determining the grant amount, we have assumed that you will not receive any other public funding beyond what you stated in the application. If you nevertheless receive other public funding, including SkatteFUNN, to cover the same costs (the eligible costs), we may reduce or withdraw our grant accordingly.

Before we can make the payment

Each course participant's company must complete a declaration of de minimis aid. The applicant company must collect the declarations and send them to us before we pay the grant. In the declaration, each company must confirm that it either

a) have not been offered any other de minimis aid in the current financial year or the two preceding financial years

or

b) if you have received such aid, state the amount, the source of the aid and the date it was offered.

Key conditions for funding

To receive services from us, your company must uphold the principles of responsible business conduct and actively consider its own sustainability risks. Read more about sustainability and responsible business conduct.

State aid rules

Funding from Innovation Norway must comply with State aid rules. There are five general conditions for State aid that must be met.

The General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER) is part of the State aid rules. It contains provisions that allow us to provide support to companies in various circumstances. One or more provisions may apply to each case. Read more about GBER.

Legal basis for the scheme

Our funding schemes have been notified to the EFTA Surveillance Authority, ESA. The legal basis for these notifications is available on the National Legal Basis page.

Other public funding

You must state in the application whether you have applied or intend to apply for other public funding for the project. We also determine the level of our funding based on an overall assessment of how much public funding is needed for the project to proceed.

When determining the grant amount, we therefore assume that you will not receive any other public funding, including SkatteFUNN, beyond what is stated in the application. This applies to funding for the project costs used to calculate our grant (eligible costs). If you nevertheless receive other public funding, including SkatteFUNN, after we have made our offer, and it covers the same costs, we may reduce or withdraw our grant accordingly.

This does not prevent the company from receiving other public funding for project costs other than those on which we have based our assessment.

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Frequently asked questions and answers
General information about the application process, how we assess applications, project details and the types of ideas we do not support.