Category: Public Calls

City of Rijeka published Public call for applications for non-repayable subsidies from the General Programme of Measures to Encourage the Development of Entrepreneurship in the City of Rijeka.

Objective

• Non-refundable subsidies are granted to entrepreneurs with the aim of strengthening their competitive position in the market and achieving additional practical education and better information in entrepreneurship.

Eligible applicants

• small business entities defined by the law governing the promotion of the development of a small business, which are entirely privately owned, having their registered office or domicile in the territory of the city of Rijeka,
• associations whose purpose is to promote the economic interests of the members of the cluster, which have their headquarters in the territory of the city of Rijeka or at least one member with their headquarters in the territory of the city of Rijeka and which operate positively. For the purposes of this Public Call, the concept of cluster is understood as the concept of connecting undertakings within an industrial sector in order to better market a particular type of product and/or service.

Measures eligible for non-repayable support

• Subsidising product and process certification
• Subsidising the construction of a brand of products and/or services
• Encouraging the pooling of economic operators
• Subsidizing the introduction of IT systems and applications into business
• Subsidising the costs of implementing industrial design
• Subsidising the acquisition and installation of machinery and equipment
• Subsidisation of costs of start-up entrepreneurs
• Subsidising the costs of drafting project proposals for co-financing from EU funds
• Subsidisation of the costs of vocational training and upskilling of employees
• Investments in equipment and appliances – linked to the transition of energy use

Financial allocation

• 422.458.00 EUR

Deadline and method of filing the application

Applications are received from 26 September 2023 at 08:00 until 13 October 2023 at 16:00 exclusively through the Information Service of the City of Rijeka (on-line application/e-form), where there are detailed instructions on the application procedure.

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More information can be obtained on tel: 209-214, 209-592 and 209-585 or by e-mail: dario.dobrilovic@rijeka.hr, vesna.martic@rijeka.hr i verica.sabo@rijeka.hr.

Primorje-Gorski Kotar County (Administrative Department for Tourism, Entrepreneurship and Rural Development) and FIPRO Foundation launch a public call for applications for funding from the project Commercialisation of Innovation.

APPLICATIONS

• natural persons;
• small business entities.

FINANCIAL SUBJECT

An innovation that is proven to work, and that of its character, which is the holder of the innovation in the application.

ACCEPTABLE COSTS

• the production or supply of the necessary equipment, tools and materials for the production of innovation where it cannot be contracted as an external service;
• making, testing, perfecting a prototype of a product or process for the provision of a service;
• market launch preparations, promotional activities and contracting and development activities of distribution and sales channels;
• certification or certification of products or services with a view to market entry;
• search the state of the art, preparation and protection of intellectual property.

SUBMISSION OF FUNDS

• up to 60.000,00 EUR.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION

• to 13. 10. 2023. years by the end of the day (23:59).

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The public call is available here, and for more information, visit the official website www.fipro.hr.

The City Office's open tender provides for a one-off award of small grants up to 700,00 EURA civil society organisations for the implementation of activities and projects that contribute to strengthening and improving the quality of life in the local community.

Activities/projects of non-profit organisations in the following areas are financed:

• Young – youth empowerment activities for active (co-)participation in the local community and youth activities for young people;
• Volunteering – activities related to the development and promotion of volunteering;
• National minorities – the protection and promotion of the rights of national minorities;
• International cooperation – promotional activities to improve the international cooperation of the City of Rijeka.

The basic criteria for co-financing are:

1. the non-profit organisation must be registered in the Register of Associations or other relevant register and in the Register of Non-Profit Organisations (RNO);
2. the non-profit organisation has been operating in the territory of the City of Rijeka for at least one year until the moment of the announcement of the Open Competition,
3. the non-profit organisation must be registered to carry out the activities and activities that are the subject of the funding;
4. the non-profit organisation must duly fulfil the obligations from all previously concluded co-financing agreements from the budget of the City of Rijeka.

The basic criteria for co-financing are:

• the application relates to the co-financing of an action/project from one of the priority areas;
• clearly defined and realistically achievable objective of the action/project;
• clearly defined beneficiaries of the action/project;
• clearly defined timing and place of implementation of the action/project;
• the quality of the work so far, and experience in the implementation of the applicant's activities/project,
• a realistic relationship between the costs and expected results of the action/project;
• share of volunteering engagement in the implementation of the declared activities/projects,
• Priority will be given to applications for activities/projects carried out in the territory of the city of Rijeka, with the exception of applications for activities/projects in the field of international cooperation.
• the application must be submitted no later than 45 (forty-five) days before the implementation of the action/project for which the ad hoc aid is requested.

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The application form and instructions can be found here!

For the purpose of educating children and their parents about the importance of consuming honey as well as including honey in the diet, Paying Agency for Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development published Public call for expressions of interest of the founders of school institutions to participate in the School Honey Day Program from Croatian Apiaries for 2023.

The programme will be implemented throughout the territory of the Republic of Croatia in the first grades of primary schools, on 7 December 2023.

The programme aims to:

• promotion of honey from local producers packed in the National jar,
• increasing the intake of honey in the diet of children,
• raising the level of knowledge about the importance of honey as an integral part of a proper and nutritionally more favorable diet,
• educating students about the importance of beekeeping for overall agricultural production and biodiversity.

The founders of school institutions have the right to participate in the Public Call:

• Republic of Croatia
• local self-government units
• regional self-government units
• other legal or natural persons

The public call is open until 1 October 2023.

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The text of the call with supporting documents is available here.