In cooperation with EIT Food the Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) launched by the European Institute of Innovation Technology; Lean Startup Croatia launches EWA (Empowering Women in Agrifood) program with the aim of supporting female agri-food entrepreneurs at an early stage of their careers in order to successfully develop a sustainable business.
EWA the program includes specialized online training, personalized mentoring, networking, financial support and the possibility of membership in EIT Food the community and is looking for Croatian entrepreneurs who have an idea or are thinking about improving the agri-food industry.
More information on the programme can be found at the following link: https://leanstartup.hr/eit-food-ewa-2022.
Applications are on-going at Intrapreneurship challenge competition EIT Manufacturing Knowledge and Innovation Community, designed to help end-users of manufacturing processes to make human work safer, more ergonomic and environmentally friendly with solution-creating companies, or to address other social and environmental issues.
The competition is intended for:
- People employed in manufacturing companies who want to improve their daily business routine by helping their company identify technical difficulties.
- Manufacturing end users who can improve their own production and business by implementing solutions tailored to their needs.
- Solution providers who will thus have the opportunity to increase the portfolio of their services and create new sources of revenue using new solutions created together with end users.
Intrapreneurship challenge in short:
- End user a solution supported by one or two of its employees who will play a role; Intrapreneur apply for a challenge with a Solution Provider (Service provider) to jointly implement the Intrapreneurship challenge.
- Implementation must lead to visible improvement for employees end usera and/or lead to significant improvements for end usera economic and/or social and environmental aspects.
- The maximum funding that can be obtained from this project is EUR 50 000.
- Organisations from EIT RIS countries, including Croatia, can apply
More information can be found at Challenge page i Project Document.
The project starts on 1 June and will last until 31 December 2022.
Deadline for applications is 17 May 2022, and you can apply here.
The Government of the Republic of Croatia has published a new portal called EU funds, intended for the implementation of the tender from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026 of the precondition for the absorption of funds from the Recovery and Resilience Facility of the European Union. From now on, the publication of calls for project funding and project applications for all tenders will be possible through this portal.
Portal Fondovi.eu is an information system intended for recording, storing and processing data necessary for financial monitoring and monitoring of project implementation, whose main objective is to enable beneficiaries (legal and natural persons) to apply electronically to calls or submit project proposals to published calls.
The website contains basic information about the funds and programmes, detailed information about the calls published, including a link for direct application to the call via the Fundseu system, as well as a link "System login" which redirects the user to direct application to the Fundseu system via NIAS. The use of the Fundseu system (as well as all services in the e-Citizens system) can only be accessed through the NIAS system, using one of the credentials provided.
Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds In cooperation with the policy authorities, work has started on the the Information Bulletin on Union Programmes in which it will inform all interested parties about the state of play of each programme;.
The coordination activities of the MRRFEU under the Union Programme shall strengthen the links between the policy bodies in charge of each Union Programme, foster the exchange of experience, open up opportunities for cooperation and the implementation of joint activities. The coordination of the monitoring of the Union Programme, in addition to the aggregation of data on the organisational structure, the use of an instrument, reporting and ensuring the availability of information, also aims to encourage as many potential beneficiaries as possible to engage and get acquainted with the opportunities offered by individual programmes. To this end, this information bulletin will also be published.
Union programmes represent an integrated set of activities adopted by the European Union in order to promote cooperation between Member States in various areas related to common EU policies, on which more information is available here .
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