Category: Public Calls

[OPTIONAL CALL] Subsidizing the costs of start-up entrepreneurs

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The City of Rijeka Public call for the submission of applications for non-repayable subsidies to start-up entrepreneurs.

Subject of the public call    

Grant of non-repayable subsidies from General programme of measures to encourage the development of entrepreneurship the City of Rijeka under the measure Subsidisation of costs of start-up entrepreneurs.

Eligible applicants

Entrepreneurs Beginners are fully privately owned and have their registered office in the territory of the city of Rijeka and have at least one employee (or are self-employed) for a fixed or indefinite period of at least three months before submitting an application to this call.

Financial allocation

For the implementation of this Public Call in the Budget of the City of Rijeka for 2024, funds were provided in the total amount of 150.000,00 EUR.

Subsidies are granted at a height of 80% eligible costs, and in the amount of at least EUR 500,00 up to a maximum of EUR 4 000,00.

Eligible costs

Non-repayable subsidies are granted to cover part of the costs of the investment made at the start of the economic activity, i.e. for: the purchase of equipment, tools, inventory and protective equipment, the arrangement of business premises, the development of a business plan, the necessary training for the performance of the basic activity, the purchase of business software and the creation of a website and visual identity of the company.

Deadline and method of filing the application

Applications are received via the Information Service of the City of Rijeka (on-line) from 24 June 2024 at 08:00 by 12 July 2024 at 4 p.m..

More information is available here or on phone numbers: 051 209 592, 051 209 588 and 051 209 214.

[ANNOUNCEMENT CALL] Opportunity Accelerator

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We invite all innovative entrepreneurs, development teams and individuals to apply for participation in the program Accelerator Opportunity. This program provides a unique opportunity to develop and improve business ideas through structured mentoring, counselling and accelerator resource utilisation programme.

About the program

Opportunity Accelerator, which along with us make STEP RI i Development Center of Lika-Senj County, part of it the HAMAG - BICRO Initiative It is carried out in three phases: pre-acceleration, acceleration and post-acceleration.

The program is designed to support innovative companies, teams and individuals u development of their products and services and enable their successful business in the market.

Pre-acceleration

Pre-acceleration phase lasts 3 months and includes the following: services up to a maximum value of €4,000:

  • Use of space with all overhead costs
  • Initial assessment of the state of the project with the development of a personalized acceleration plan
  • Consulting services by business and technology mentors
  • Access to accelerator equipment and machinery
  • Participation in workshops and trainings and preparation for the final presentation

After the completion of the pre-acceleration phase, participants will present their projects to an evaluation panel composed of five independent foreign experts. The presentation will be held in English. In case the applicant is a start-up (up to 5 years of age), the applicant can access the acceleration programme if the jury determines that the project is successful and has a product/service at TRL 5-8. Applicants in teams and individuals (natural persons), in addition to the above conditions, must set up a business or craft before joining the acceleration programme.

Important: Only participants who successfully complete the pre-acceleration phase will have the possibility to apply for the acceleration and post-acceleration phase.

Acceleration and post-acceleration

Acceleration lasts 9 months It is intended exclusively for companies with products and services in the TRL 5-8 phase resulting from the pre-acceleration programme.

The programme includes the following: services equivalent to a maximum of €17,000:

  • Use of space with all overhead costs
  • Consulting services by business and technology mentors
  • Creating a business plan with a marketing strategy
  • Access to accelerator equipment and machinery
  • Connecting with investors and business partners

Users of the acceleration program have the opportunity to:

  • Participations on additional restricted calls up to €25,000, intended financing of operating costs not covered by the programme (e.g. purchase of equipment and instruments, staff salary costs, patenting, certification and testing costs…)
  • Applications to Business internationalisation vouchers companies, which includes activities of participation of the company in international events, exhibitions, fairs, workshops, conferences, and includes travel expenses, overnight expenses, registration fees, etc.

The post-acceleration program lasts 12 months and includes further project development support through the use of business premises with all overhead costs, continuous advisory support and participation in events with the aim of connecting and accessing investors. The services listed are in the equivalent of a maximum of €6,000.

Eligible applicants

You can apply for a newly created companies (up to 5 years of age), Development teams i individuals who develop innovative products, services and technologies which are currently in stages TRL 5-8.

Source of funding and de minimis aid

The acceleration programme is implemented under the measure “Strengthening acceleration activity” and is funded by the 2021 National Recovery and Resilience Plan. 20-2026

The service provided to the undertaking by the accelerator-operator of the programme for the pre-acceleration, acceleration and post-acceleration phases constitutes de minimis aid pursuant to Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/2831 of 113 December 2023 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union on de minimis aid, i.e. in accordance with the Rules on the granting of de minimis aid (de minimis) HAMAG-BICRO as of 7 March 2024.

How to apply

Applications must be submitted by filling in Form 1 which is an integral part the Public Call published by HAMAG BICRO.

Applicants in the application select those accelerators with which they want to cooperate, ranking them according to their preferences and priorities. If there is no space in the selected accelerator, the application is redirected to the next one, in order.

Deadline for submission of applications

Applications are open until 7 August 2024 of the year.

Don't miss the opportunity for your innovative project to get the support needed for success!

[OPTIONAL CALL] Eurostars application vouchers

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Croatian Agency for Small Business, Innovation and InvestmentHAMAG-BICRO) announces the opening of a joint call for international collaborative projects in the programme Eurostars 3 and allows companies to send a working version of their application to the competition "Voucher programme for the services of experts to help prepare a project application for the Eurostars programme".

Vouchers in the amount of €3.350 will be awarded to the best-rated pre-applications to co-finance the services of experts to assist in the preparation of projects.

Submission of pre-registration is not mandatory, but in this way companies have the possibility to:

  • get a voucher of €3,350 for the services of a project application writing specialist; and
  • check how much the project is in line with the propositions of the programme.

The deadline for submission of pre-notification is 7.7.2024. of the year.

About the program

Eurostars is part of the European Partnership for Innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, which encourages small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to cooperate with international partners in launching research and development (R&D) activities. The partnership is co-financed by the European Union through Horizon Europe. The basic criterion is the participation of at least two member countries in the project. List of countries available here.

Objectives of the programme

  • Encourage companies to invest in R&D activities and thus strengthen their innovation capacity
  • Encouraging international cooperation between entrepreneurs
  • Create the basis for international market placement

Applicants

The main partner in the project must be a small or medium-sized R&D performing SME. Other project partners must be small or medium-sized companies.

Financial allocation

The maximum amount of non-repayable support per project is maximum €200,000i.e. 60% for micro and small enterprises and 50% for medium-sized enterprises, whichever is smaller.

Eligible costs: employee salaries, depreciation and small inventory, external service costs, travel costs, other development costs.

Duration

The maximum duration of the project is three years (36 months).

Log in

The EUREKA Secretariat publishes calls for applications to Eurostars twice a year (March and September).

The application consists of 2 steps:

[OPTIONAL CALL] Expression of interest to participate in the PHASE OF PREDACELERATION

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The Croatian Agency for Small Business, Innovation and Investment (HAMAG-BICRO) Public call for expression of interest in participating in the PHASE OF PREDACELERATION within the AKCELERATION PROGRAMME under the measure ‘Strengthening acceleration activities’, for the purpose of implementing a series of activities aimed at innovative start-ups, development teams and individuals (natural persons – for the pre-acceleration phase).

Subject of the call

Enable innovative start-ups, development teams and individuals stay in premises the Acceleration Program and provide a service Business support in 2 years.

Eligible applicants

  • start-ups established for a maximum period of 5 years prior to the date of submission of a project proposal the development of which is related to innovative solutions, services and technologies; 
  • development teams and individuals (natural persons) developing an innovative product/service These are currently in phases TRL 5-8.

Programme implementers

HAMAG-BICRO 9 consortia – accelerators implementing an acceleration programme, which will provide their services within the region in which they belong.

In the area of the Northern Adriatic, which includes Zadar, Lika-Senj, Primorje-Gorski Kotar and Istria counties, there is an Accelerator Opportunity which, along with our agency, consists of Step Ri i Development center of Lika-Senj County.

Aid amount

Beneficiaries will be able to receive non-financial support through accelerator services as follows:

  • in the pre-acceleration phase up to a maximum of €4,000
  • in the acceleration phase up to a maximum of €17,000
  • in the post-acceleration phase up to a maximum of €6,000

Deadline for submission of applications

Applications are received via online forms of 7 June by 7 August 2024 (until 24:00).

More information available is here.