The Ministry of Science and Education has announced a competition Start up/spin off enterprise young researchers What is the purposeEncouraging entrepreneurial activity of young researchers through incentives to start their own start-up/spin-off company.
The call is intended to establish a start-up/spin-off company in the (co-)ownership of one or more young researchers employed by a public research organisation. The company is expected to have a regulated relationship with the public research organisation, in the form of agreements on the use of intellectual property rights and other rights related to the commercialisation of the results of the research and development activities of the public research organisation.
Minimum grant amount: 66.000,00 €
Maximum grant amount: 200.000,00 €
The deadline for submitting documents is 17 May 2023.
Eligible applicant:
meets the definition of micro or small enterprise and has been established no more than five years before the date of submission of the project proposal and has not yet distributed profits.
is (co-)owned by one or more young researchers employed at a public research organisation in the Republic of Croatia;
has regulated terms of use of intellectual property for the technology or solution that is the subject of the project, in the form of an Agreement with a public research organisation.
Start-up/spin-off company – an enterprise not older than five years, the business of which is based on original research or technologies developed by a research organisation.
Young researchers – PhD students and researchers up to 7 years after obtaining their PhD.
European Parliament i Foundation of the International Charlemagne Prize once again this year, the Aachen Prize is awarded to inspiring projects that change Europe and are led by young people from across the EU.
Are you a resident of the EU aged 16-30 and working on a European project? Sign up and receive the assistance you need to further develop your initiative. Applications for 2023 are open until 23:59 on 2 February.
Three winning projects are selected. The first prize is €7,500, the second €5,000 and the third €2,500. Representatives of all national winning projects will be invited to the awards ceremony in Aachen, Germany.
In the framework of the initiative "Ideas Powered for Business " of the European Commission, implemented by the European Union Intellectual Property Office, is open SME Fund, a grant scheme designed to help EU SMEs protect their intellectual property rights.
Total funding for 2023 amounts to more than €25 million, and are available from 23 January 2023 to 8 December 2023.. in order of application and may be used for:
the costs of the IP Scan (Voucher 1) service, and
registration costs for trade marks and industrial designs through national, regional, European and international protection systems (Voucher 2).
More information is available on the EUIPO website the 2023 SME Fund.
You can submit your application form via the SME Fund Account at the following link: Submit your application.
The Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy has published a call for the purpose of Improve the availability of integrated integrated care for the elderly improving infrastructure for the provision of social services for older people.
Improvement of infrastructure will be achieved through the construction and reconstruction/upgrade of existing infrastructure, with adequate equipping, in order to provide users with quality and timely accessible social care services after the establishment of centers for the elderly.
The Elderly Centres will provide new additional capacity to accommodate older people who are fully functionally dependent on the assistance of another person and whose needs cannot be met at home or local community level.
In addition, the Centers will ensure the provision of non-institutional services in the community, the purpose of which is to enable the elderly to stay in their home for as long as possible.
Total grant amount 49.107.439,11 €.
Eligible applicants under this call are local self-government units.
In the context of this call Project partnership is mandatory, meaning that the applicant cannot submit the project application on its own. Project proposals must include the local self-government unit as the applicant, and the obligatory partner to the eligible applicant in each project application is a regional self-government unit, i.e. the county in whose territory the project is being implemented. One county can be a Partner in several project proposals of applicants based in that county.
Project proposals can be submitted from 23 January 2023 by 22 March 2023 via eNPOO.
