ENTREPRENEURSHIP IMPULS – Enhancing the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry

Type of competition: Grant
Opening date of the competition: 06.07.2015.
Deadline for applications: 03.08.2015.
Amounts of funds : 8.375.000 kn
Applicants: Small and medium-sized enterprises

The priority of this Public Call is to increase employment through targeted support for development investments, and to strengthen competitiveness, stimulate growth and development of micro and small economic entities, which achieve market performance through their operations.

The objectives of this public call are:
– Improving the efficiency of operations and the competitiveness of micro and small economic operators
– Improving the efficiency of production and production processes through strengthening and modernising the technological base of micro and small operators
– Strengthening the position of micro and small operators in the market and enabling the expansion of production and production assortment
– Encouraging the entrepreneurship of target groups – women entrepreneurs, start-ups, Roma national minority, people with disabilities and entrepreneurs in assisted areas
– Creating new jobs and maintaining existing ones.

Eligible project activities are:

– Investment in the development and procurement of new technologies (including technology transfer) leading to the development of a new or upgrade of an existing product, the improvement of production and the creation of new value;
– Investment in scaling up existing production capacity
– Investing in more environmentally friendly and energy-efficient production
– Deployment of business improvement and process modernisation systems

The minimum amount of aid that can be granted is HRK 50,000.00.
The maximum amount of aid that can be granted is 400.000,00kuna.

For more information, please contact: Ivan Kermeci tel. 051/634-333, e-mail: ivan.kermeci@porin.hr

Public call for applications for promotion of entrepreneurship and crafts from the competence of the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Crafts in 2015

Type of competition: Grant
Opening date of the competition: 02.07.2015.
Deadline for applications: 18.07.2015.
Amounts of funds €: 78.947
Applicants: Local and regional self-government units, Small and medium-sized enterprises, Associations, Employers' Associations, Cooperatives, Development Agencies

The subject of the call is the award of patronage/co-financing for the organisation of events/scientific-professional conferences and other activities promoting entrepreneurship and crafts in 2015.

Eligible applicants are organizers of economic events and events, fairs and other forms of promotion of small and medium-sized entrepreneurship and crafts, organizers of events aimed at promoting micro, small and medium-sized entrepreneurship organizers of economic and exhibitions of innovators and similar forms of promotion, scientific and professional conferences, and local and traditional events, all related to the promotion of entrepreneurship, cooperatives and crafts, as well as the promotion of traditional crafts and local products, based in the Republic of Croatia, namely:
Educational, scientific research institutions and professional associations, federations of cooperatives, federations of associations, HGK and HOK, Regional Chambers and associations of craftsmen (for scientific-professional conferences),Units of local and regional self-government, development agencies, associations, cooperatives, cooperative federations, federations of associations, HGK, HOK, Regional Chambers and associations of craftsmen, Tourist Boards of cities, municipalities and counties (for economic events; exhibitions, fairs),
Small business entities, educational, scientific research institutions and professional associations, federations of cooperatives, federations of associations, HGK and HOK, Regional Chambers and associations of craftsmen (for the national project of promoting entrepreneurship.
The eligible costs for the activities of organising scientific-professional conferences and economic events include the costs of renting, renting, arranging and equipping the exhibition space, the costs of direct national TV broadcasting, the production of catalogues and prospectuses, brochures, books, organising seminars and other dependent costs of the event/scientific-professional conference, etc.

The total amount of available funds is 600.000 kn. The co-financing rate is up to 25 % Of the total eligible costs, the co-financing amounts are set out below.

For scientific – expert conferences:
– up to HRK 50 000.00 for a scientific-professional meeting of an international character;
– up to HRK 30 000.00 for a scientific-professional meeting of a national character;
– up to HRK 20 000.00 for a scientific-professional meeting of a regional character;
– up to HRK 10 000.00 for a scientific-professional meeting with a city/local character.
For economic events:
– up to HRK 140.000,00 for an economic manifestation of an international character;
– up to HRK 120.000,00 for an economic manifestation of state character;
– up to HRK 50 000.00 for an economic event of a regional character;
– up to HRK 20 000.00 for an economic event with a city/local character.

For more information, please contact: Ivan Kermeci tel. 051/634-333, e-mail: ivan.kermeci@porin.hr

Rural Development Programme of the Republic of Croatia for the period 2014 - 2020 20-2020 – Tender for the implementation of sub-measure 6.3. ‘Support for the development of small farms’, implementation of operation type 6.3.1. "Support for the development of small farms"

Opening date of the competition: 22.04.2015.

Deadline for applications: 12.07.2015.

Amount of funding: 15.000.000 €

Applicants: Small and medium-sized enterprises, Family farms.

Subject of the competition: allocation of funds in accordance with the Rules on the implementation of measure 6 ‘Farm and business development’, sub-measure 6.3, ‘Support for the development of small farms’ of the Rural Development Programme of the Republic of Croatia for the period 2014–2020. 20-2020

Eligible costs: the purchase of domestic animals, annual and perennial plants, seeds and planting stock, 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, the purchase or lease of agricultural land, the purchase of agricultural machinery, machinery and equipment, the raising of new and/or restructuring of existing perennial crops, the arrangement and improvement of the quality of agricultural land for the purpose of agricultural production, the construction and/or equipping of facilities for the sale and presentation of their own agricultural products including the costs of promoting their own agricultural products, the acquisition of the necessary expertise and ability to carry out agricultural production and processing of the products referred to in Annex I, the operational operation of the farm.

For more information, please call: 051/634-335 or contact us by e-mail: marta.zubcic@porin.hr

Equity incentive scheme for innovative small business entities

Opening date of the competition: 19.03.2015.

Deadline for applications: 01.11.2015.

Amounts of funding: 7,000,000 kn

Applicants: Small and medium-sized enterprises.

Objective of the competition: encouraging equity investments in innovative small business entities by eligible investors to further develop and/or commercialise the innovative product or service by granting additional resources in the form of non-repayable support.

Subject of the competition: investment in the development and/or commercialisation of an innovative product or service that has a market potential on the international market.

Eligible costs: costs directly related to the project/innovation for which the non-repayable support is awarded in order to be considered eligible, which is evaluated solely by HAMAG-BICRO in accordance with its internal working methodologies and procedures.

For more information, please call: 051/634-333 or contact us by e-mail: ivan.kermeci@porin.hr