Category: Public Calls

The Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development has opened a new round of calls Digitalisation vouchers in order to increase the level of digital maturity of SMEs through the development of digital business models, strengthening the capacity to implement digitalisation and digital transformation or enhancing cybersecurity, which will ultimately increase the competitiveness and resilience of enterprises through the use of digital technologies.

This call encourages implementation-oriented investments by SMEs digitalization and digital transformation of business training and services to improve digital skills (including those related to cloud technologies), adapt business models to digital transformation, digital marketing, cyber resilience and deployment of complex digital solutions;

Objective of the call

Contribute increasing the level of digital maturity of SMEs; through the development of digital business models, strengthening the capacity to implement digitalisation and digital transformation or improving cybersecurity, which will ultimately increase the competitiveness and resilience of enterprises through the use of digital technologies.

Types of vouchers

• Voucher to improve digital skills
• Digital Marketing Voucher
• Voucher to develop a digital transformation strategy
• Cyber Resilience Diagnostic Voucher
• Voucher for complex digital solutions

Amount of aid

The maximum grant amount that can be awarded to a project depends on the type of voucher and is in euro:

• Voucher to improve digital skills – 9.990,00
• Digital marketing voucher – 9.990,00
• Voucher for the development of a digital transformation strategy – 9.990,00
• Cyber Resilience Diagnostic Voucher – 14,500,00
• Voucher for complex digital solutions – 19.900,00

Aid intensity

Aid intensity determined for grants/vouchers of 60% eligible costs.

Eligible applicants

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises with at least 1-3 employees, depending on the type of voucher, on a full-time basis in the previous month.

Eligible service providers

Only legal and natural persons registered in Catalogue of Digital Vouchers.

Number of project proposals

Only one voucher may be requested by the applicant in one project proposal. Applicants may submit more than one project proposal per Call, but not at the same time.

In the award procedure, the applicant may have at the same time only one project proposal requesting the award of vouchers for services provided exclusively by one service provider and covering one or more activities eligible for the requested type of voucher. If the applicant submits two or more project proposals at the same time (within the same deadline), all submitted project proposals will be excluded from the award procedure.

A maximum of two (2) vouchers may be used by one applicant under this Call, provided that they are of different types.

Eligible project activities

• Voucher to improve digital skills

The voucher refers to specialized non-formal learning programs aimed at the development of digital skills that will enable the applicant's employees to carry out digitalisation, i.e. to use digital marketing and communication tools (working in e-commerce and m-commerce, online advertising, administration of the company's website), for data analysis and data management, application development, software design, digital design, for cloud business, etc.

• Digital Marketing Voucher

The activities of this voucher include the creation of enterprise websites, e-commerce, mcommerce, including the development and testing of mobile commerce applications, upgrading existing solutions – business channels through redesign and upgrading with new functionalities, as well as opening new and improving existing communication channels and improving customer relations.

• Voucher to develop a digital transformation strategy

The company's digital transformation strategy includes defining achievable digital transformation goals and creating measures to achieve the set goals, including an analysis of the current state and environment, testing the potential for business optimization through digitalisation, process and organization optimization, and other measures that can contribute to the adaptation of the organization to business in the digital age, as well as the methodology of monitoring the implementation of digital
Strategies (with key indicators – KPIs). The digital transformation strategy should be aligned with the business strategy of the company (to which strategic orientations and to which the existing strategic objectives relate), i.e. with the business plan and objectives, in case the company does not have a developed business strategy.

The activity should result in a clear action plan according to which the company can act so that after its implementation it can say that it has successfully adapted to the digital age through the introduction of new application solutions, change of organizational culture, process optimization and other ways.

• Cyber Resilience Diagnostic Voucher (cybersecurity)

The activities of the voucher include the verification of the cybersecurity of the company through the implementation of system security checks/data permeability checks, the implementation of penetration tests with the preparation of related reports, through the implementation of security testing and the detection of cyber threats to the company's information system. They also include the analysis of collected data and defining additional system improvements and generating reports for the needs of regulators, certification houses, etc., and the education of employees by service providers to increase training, to achieve cybersecurity of the company for a minimum duration of 3 hours.

• Voucher for complex digital solutions

Activities that can be funded with this voucher include the service of deploying complex digital solutions that will enable the company to develop digital business models, strengthen the capacity to implement digitalisation and digital transformation, such as solutions for Industry 4.0, development of network systems and processes, IoT (Internet of Things), smart services, automation, projects involving Big Data (big data), simulation models, virtual and augmented reality, integrated systems (e.g.: BI and analytics, market integration (drop-shipping) in at least one large market, enterprise resource planning, digital productivity solutions and customer relationship management solutions, including key indicators – KPI for each solution delivered, and training of employees by service providers on the acquisition of advanced digital skills related to the purpose of vouchers for a minimum duration of
Six o'clock.

Activities should be aligned with the company's digital transformation strategy, i.e. the business strategy of the company if the company does not have a developed digital transformation strategy.

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Deadline for submission of project applications 30.11.2023 to 5 p.m.

LIFE European City Facility (EUCF) provides financial support to local authorities in the European Union, Iceland and Ukraine to enable them to develop investment concepts for activities aimed at achieving energy sustainability and energy efficiency.

The sixth call for applications will be open from 15 January to 15 March 2024 which will allow payment to be made €60,000 in a lump sum for 70 selected local self-government units. The EUCF will also provide practical support to local actors in developing their investment concepts, as well as capacity building and partnering opportunities for beneficiaries. All this is aimed at finding private or public sources of funding for your project ideas.

Grants can be used to produce technical feasibility studies, legal analyses, market analyses and more.

Who can apply?

Cities/municipalities, their groups, as well as local public entities bringing together municipalities/local administrations located entirely in the European Union. All Member States (EU-27), Iceland or Ukraine are eligible to apply for EUCF support.

Beneficiaries can engage local and regional energy agencies to develop an investment concept for their energy sustainability projects.

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Preparations are starting now!

• Log in to receive reminders when EUCF calls open;
• Before submitting your application, please check Guidelines for applicants;
• See list of beneficiaries have been successful in previous EUCF calls;
• Contact the EUCF Experts and National Centres for guidance and support on the application;
• Info meetings to support applicants will take place in early January 2024.
• Read more information here.

Potential applicants are informed that they will 17 November 2023 under the Interreg Slovenia-Croatia Programme 2021-2030 20-2027 in the Official Journal of the Republic of Slovenia and at the Programme Website launch an Open Call for submission of project applications for small projects.

The program is conducted on the basis of an open public call. This means that applicants can submit project applications continuously from the opening of the call, as long as funds are available. Together with the open call, all relevant guidelines and information will be published.

The first workshops for applicants will be organised after the launch of the open call for project applications, and are scheduled for December 2023.

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.