Category: Public Calls

Subject the tender is the award of funds in accordance with Article 5(1). Sub-measure 6.1 "Support for business start-up for young farmers", Sub-measure 6.2 "Support for investment in the establishment of non-agricultural activities in rural areas" and Sub-measure 6.3. ‘Support for the development of small farms’ under M06 ‘Farm and business development’ of the Rural Development Programme of the Republic of Croatia for the period 2014–2020. 20-2020

Eligible beneficiaries are young farmers who are 18 years of age and less than 41 years of age at the time of submitting the aid application and who submit a business plan for an agricultural holding of an economic size between EUR 8 000 and EUR 49 999. As a precondition for participating in the tender, beneficiaries must be entered in the Register of Rural Development and Fisheries Aid Beneficiaries.

Eligible activities are:

1. purchase of domestic animals, annual and perennial plants, seeds and planting material,
2. the purchase, construction and/or equipping of closed/protected areas and facilities and other farm facilities including external and internal infrastructure within the farm for the purpose of carrying out agricultural production and/or processing of products prescribed by the Rules, with the exception of fishery products,
3. purchase or lease of agricultural land,
4. purchase of agricultural machinery, machinery and equipment,
5. the establishment of new and/or restructuring of existing perennial crops,
6. the regulation and improvement of the quality of agricultural land for the purpose of agricultural production,
7. the construction and/or equipping of facilities for the sale and presentation of own agricultural products, including the costs of promoting own agricultural products,
8. acquisition of the necessary expertise and ability to carry out agricultural production and processing of products,
9. the operational operation of the agricultural holding.

The aid shall be granted in the form of a grant. The support funds are provided from the EU budget and the state budget of the Republic of Croatia, of which the EU participates with 90% the Republic of Croatia 10% shares. The aid amount per beneficiary is HRK 376,840.

Applications for the competition start to run from 21 December 2016, and the closing date for the submission of applications is February 24, 2017.

For all information related to the competition, you can contact us at 051/634-339 or dunja.zagorac@porin.hr

The permanently open Call for Proposals will be implemented under the Operational Programme Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014-2020, Priority 3 "Business Competitiveness"; Investment priority 3d "Supporting the creation of the capacity of SMEs to engage in the growth process in regional, national and international markets and innovation processes"; Specific Objective 3d2 "Increased innovation of SMEs".

The objective of this Call is to support projects aimed at new products and services with higher and high added value that have a positive impact on business performance and growth of companies and with market potential at international level.

Grants will be awarded through a permanently open Call for submission of project applications with the deadline for submission of project applications on 31 December 2017, i.e. until the use of available funds in the total value of 114,000,000,00 HRK.

The call is addressed to micro, small or medium-sized enterprises according to the definition set out in Annex I. Definition of small and medium-sized enterprises of Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014.

The invitation provides for:

A) Innovation aid for SMEs

B) Aid for process and organisational innovation

C) De minimis aid (provided that the aid referred to in points A) and B)

The minimum grant amount that can be awarded to an individual entrepreneur under this Call is HRK 760,000,00, while the maximum grant amount that can be awarded to an individual entrepreneur is HRK 7,600,000,00.

Applications for the competition will be received from 9 January 2017 to 31 December 2017, i.e. until the funds are used.

Tender documentation can be downloaded from the website the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts.

If you are interested in applying for the competition, please contact us at ivan.kermeci@porin.hr

The Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds has published an open call for proposals entitled ‘Promoting the sustainable development of natural heritage“, in value of $196 million.

Funding from calls under the European Regional Development Fund, the Competitiveness and Cohesion Operational Programme, is intended for the sustainable use of natural heritage with the aim of contributing to sustainable socio-economic development at local and regional level. The implementation of the projects will ensure an increase in attractiveness and educational capacity and the establishment of a better management of visitors to natural heritage destinations, whereby the projects must be aimed at developing public awareness of the importance of preserving biodiversity and geodiversity.

In line with the Operational Programme Competitiveness and Cohesion, eligible applicants for the competition are public institutions for the management of protected areas founded by regional and/or local self-government units, local or regional self-government units and the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts for investments in a protected area;, and allowed partners are local and regional self-government units, civil society organisations, regional development agencies and tourist board offices.

The tender is conducted as an open Call for Proposals in a temporary modality, with a deadline for submission of project proposals by 5 March 2017 at 23:59, while the delivery of individual project proposals is allowed at the earliest of 6 December 2016

The following activities are eligible under this Call:

1. Preparation of design technical - documentation and studies
2. Implementation of the project
Visitor infrastructure and facilities;
Accessibility and communal facilities;
Education and interpretation;
Promotion and visibility
3. Project management

Documentation of this competition is available at: http://www.strukturnifondovi.hr/natjecaji/1316

If you are interested in applying for this competition, please contact us at rraporin@porin.hr

Subject: Energy renovation and use of renewable energy sources in public sector buildings where public institutions carry out education activities. This Call will support the implementation of energy renovation measures and the use of renewable energy sources, in particular through an integrated approach.

Purpose It calls for the implementation of energy renovation measures and the use of renewable energy sources in public sector buildings where public institutions carry out education activities that will result in a reduction in energy consumption for heating/cooling through an integrated approach.

Eligible applicants are:

• local or regional self-government units which are:

• owners of buildings which are the subject of a project in which public institutions, established by a local or regional self-government unit or the Republic of Croatia, carry out educational activities, or

• founders of public institutions providing education in buildings that are the subject of the project, where the buildings that are the subject of the project are owned by that public institution or local or regional self-government unit or the Republic of Croatia;

• public institutions are engaged in educational activities if they fulfil cumulatively the following two conditions:

• they are established by a local or regional self-government unit or the Republic of Croatia, and
  that the buildings in which they carry out this activity are owned by them or by a local or regional self-government unit or the Republic of Croatia.

Mandatory partner is the Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund, Energy Efficiency Sector.

Eligible activities:

1. Project documentation

• Preparation of project documentation

2. Energy renovation

• Renovation of the building envelope – increasing the thermal protection of the envelope that adds, renovates or replaces parts of the building
• installation of a new high-efficiency heating system
• replacing the existing domestic hot water preparation system with a system using RES
• Replacement or introduction of a cooling system with a high-efficiency system
• Replacement or introduction of a ventilation system with a high-efficiency system
• Replacement of interior lighting with more efficient
• installation of photovoltaic modules for the production of electricity from RES for the purposes of ETC
• promoting the use of renewable energy sources by installing solar heating systems;
• implementation of building automation and management systems
• introduction of a system for remote reading of energy and water consumption and a system of energy and water control meters (obligation for project proposals providing for the formation of new ETCs)
• horizontal measures relating to the implementation of new accessibility elements to overcome height differences in accordance with the Rules on ensuring accessibility of buildings for persons with disabilities and reduced mobility;
• professional construction supervision
• Design supervision, if applicable
• the service of the occupational health and safety coordinator during construction, if applicable;
• energy audit of the building, preparation of the report on energy audit of the building and energy performance certificate after energy renovation
• Promotion and visibility of the project
• Project management and administration
• Professional support activities for the Applicant/User by the Partner.

The maximum or minimum grant amount that can be awarded to finance the eligible costs of an individual project proposal is as follows:

• minimum amount of HRK 80,000.00

• maximum amount of 10,000,000,00 HRK.

Grants will be awarded through an open grant award procedure in the form of multiple interim calls with a deadline for submission of project proposals for the first interim call of 90 (ninety) calendar days from the date of publication, at the end of which the award procedure begins, i.e. at the earliest from 22 November 2016 until at the latest 20 February 2017.

If you need a consultation regarding the competition, send an e-mail ivan.kermeci@porin.hr or call on 051/634-333