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Summary: CALL FOR THE PROCEDURE OF PROJECT PROPOSALS - WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME

Fund: European Social Fund

Operational programme: OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME EFFECTIVE HUMAN POTENTIALS 2014 - 2020

Type of competition: Open call for proposals (grants)

Status: open from 30.6.2017 to 31.12.2020

Competent authority: Ministry of Labour and Pension System

Area: social inclusion

Applicants: local self-government units, non-profit organisations
Summary:
The Call "Wish - A Women's Employment Programme" is in line with European and national recommendations on improving the position of women in the labour market and protecting women's rights. It is also in line with the guidelines of the employment policies of the EU Member States with a focus on promoting social inclusion and combating poverty, especially considering that women who are disadvantaged in the labour market and who will take care of elderly and disadvantaged people will be included as participants in these activities.
The call will be implemented by local government units and non-profit organizations for a period of up to 30 months, and is intended for employment of disadvantaged women in the labour market, with an emphasis on women over 50, women with the most completed secondary education, women with disabilities, women victims of trafficking in human beings, treated addicts, women victims of domestic violence, homeless people.
Thanks to this Call, almost 3,000 women are planned to be employed throughout Croatia to support and care for almost 12,000 elderly and disadvantaged people in their communities. Projects will be implemented in hard-to-reach areas (rural areas and islands) and in those areas where the unemployment rate and long-term unemployment rate are higher than the Croatian average.
Local and regional self-government units and non-profit organisations can apply for the tender with their projects. Compulsory partners on the project are regional and regional offices of the Croatian Employment Service and Centers for Social Welfare, and as other partners on this project can participate associations, units of local and regional self-government legal entities of religious communities as well as institutions.
Eligible activities of this Call are employment of women from the target groups to support and support elderly and disadvantaged people in the local community, education and training of women from the target groups to support and support elderly and disadvantaged people in their households, as well as providing material conditions for the implementation of activities to support and support elderly and disadvantaged people (procurement of hygiene and household maintenance supplies for persons to be cared for by women, purchase of bicycles).
The minimum value of grants per project can be 900.000,00 kn, while the maximum foreseen value of the project is 10.000.000,00 kn. Eligible project costs will be fully financed (100% costs).
The call is implemented under Specific Objective 9.i.1. Combating poverty and social exclusion by promoting labour market and social integration of vulnerable groups, and combating all forms of discrimination.
Total grant amount: 400.900.000,00 HRK
Grant amount per project proposal: the minimum amount of the requested grant may be HRK 900,000,00, and the maximum amount of the requested grant may be HRK 10,000,000.
Project co-financing: the share of funding per project is 100% eligible costs, i.e. applicants/partners do not provide co-financing of projects from their own resources.
Questions and Answers:
Questions can be sent by e-mail to esf.info@mrms.hr
Questions and answers shall be published on the central website of the ESI Funds and the ESF page no later than 7 calendar days after the date of receipt of each question.

Documentation:

User Manual for Application Form A Part
Form 2 Declaration by the Applicant
Form 3 Statement by the Partner
Annex 1 General terms and conditions of the contract
Annex 2 Special conditions
Annex 3 Procurement for NOJN
Instructions for applicants

Providing high-quality services for SMEs through entrepreneurial support institutions (Entrepreneurial Support Institutions (EIS)

Fund: European Regional Development Fund

Operational programme: Operational Programme Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014-2020

Type of competition: Open call for proposals (grants)

Status: open from 30.6.2017 to 1.10.2017

Competent authority: Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts

Area: small and medium-sized enterprises

Applicants: support institutions for entrepreneurs

Summary: The call for proposals will be implemented under the Operational Programme Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014-2020, Priority 3 "Business Competitiveness"; Investment priority 3a Promoting entrepreneurship, in particular by facilitating the economic exploitation of new ideas and fostering the creation of new enterprises, including through business incubators, Specific objective 3a2 Enabling a favourable environment for the creation and development of enterprises, financed by the ERDF.

| Tender documentation

The objective of this Call is to provide effective assistance to strengthen the position of SMEs in the market, to reduce information asymmetries among SMEs and to facilitate access to business knowledge and skills, partners and information essential for business growth and development, as well as to improve the economic performance and survival rate of SMEs.

Based on the OPCC, EUR 3.000.000,00 was provided for this Call from the ERDF, which is shown in the State Budget of the Republic of Croatia in the amount of HRK 22,800.000,00.

Eligible ETDs are those up to 31.12. in 2016 registered in the Unified Register of Enterprise Infrastructure (hereinafter: JRPI): http://reg.minpo.hr/pi/public/.

Eligible applicants under this Call are PPIs in private or public ownership, which comply with the definition in Article 4. the Entrepreneurial Infrastructure Improvement Act (NN Nos 93/13, 114/13 and 41/14) defined as:
•development agencies;
•Entrepreneurial centres;
•business parks,
•business incubators,
•Entrepreneurial accelerators.

Schedule of information workshops for entrepreneurs
The date and place of the information and education workshops in accordance with the Call shall be published at least 10 calendar days before the date of their holding.

Frequently asked questions and answers:

Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o., Primorje-Gorski Kotar County-Administrative Department for Tourism, Entrepreneurship and Rural Development and CES-Regional Office Rijeka are implementing the project Examination of entrepreneurial potential for unemployed persons (IPP) for 2017 for the area of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County for the sixth time in a row.

As part of the project Examination of Entrepreneurial Potential, the second and third seminars were held under the title Systematic entrepreneurship Mali Lošinj (17.05.2017. Mali Losinj City Library ) and in Rijeka (25.05.2017. at the premises of the Rijeka Development Agency Porin at Milutina Barača 62).

The content of the seminar included:

• CES support for self-employment, Gordan Radović
• Introduction to Systematic Entrepreneurship, Doris Sošić
• Procedure for the establishment of a company and a craft business
• Obligations and differences between a company and a craft business
• Business in a company and crafts
• Recruitment Procedure and Activities and Recruitment Obligations
• Entrepreneurial networking, clustering and consolidation
• Network of Support Institutions
• Creating a business plan
• Funding, co-financing and incentive opportunities for beginners and companies.

The aim of this seminar is to provide participants with knowledge on how to use CES support for self-employment and what entrepreneurship is, how to start entrepreneurship, what business modalities are available, how to create a business plan, what are the possibilities of using incentives at the local, county and state level. After the seminar, personal interviews with participants are conducted in order to assess the possibility of starting their business ideas.

The project is financed by the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County through the Administrative Department for Tourism, Entrepreneurship and Rural Development. The project participants receive basic knowledge about starting their own business, creating a business plan for the 5 best-rated entrepreneurial ideas and informing and advising on the possibilities in the entrepreneurial world and the support available from the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, the CES and the City of Rijeka. This is an important moment to achieve the goal of self-employment or employment with others. This year, unemployed people from rural areas of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County will have the advantage to achieve these benefits.

Local Partnership for Employment of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County (LPZ) was established in 2011. Its bodies are the Assembly, the Management Board, the Secretariat and the Working Groups. Due to interest in the appointment of new representatives of LPZ members in the new mandate period and the inclusion of new members from the county area, on May 19, 2017, the Assembly of the Local Partnership of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County was organized in the premises of the Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o.

In accordance with the agenda, new representatives of LPZ members were appointed as well as the accession of new 7 members. The LPZ now has 32 members. Doris Sošić from the Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o. was elected president of the LPZ, and two vice-presidents were elected: Vita Dujmović from the Croatian Chamber of Economy - County Chamber Rijeka and Željko Marković from the Croatian Employment Service - Regional Office Rijeka.

The President and two Vice-Presidents were elected to the Management Board, i.e. the Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o., the Croatian Chamber of Economy-County Chamber Rijeka, the Croatian Institute of Science-Regional Office Rijeka and the Technical Culture Centre Rijeka, the Local Development Agency PINS d.o.o., the City of Rijeka, the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Sensum d.o.o., the Lovran College. Representatives of HZZ-Regional Office Rijeka, HGK-County Chamber Rijeka, Rijeka Development Agency Porn d.o.o. and STEP RI d.o.o. were elected to the LPZ Secretariat.

For the purpose of the implementation of the Human Resources Development Strategy of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County 2015-2020, the Amendment to the Action Plan for the implementation of the same was adopted, which includes 76 project proposals worth EUR 12,303,058.23.

Since the European Social Fund, Operational Programme Efficient Human Resources 2014-2020, published the Call for Local Initiatives for Employment Promotion - Phase III, four project proposals for Component 1 of the Municipality of Viškovo, Centre for Technical Culture Rijeka, Učilište Lovran and Component 2 of the holder of the Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o.

The LPZ is the body for the preparation of the Human Resources Development Strategy at the county level, and the main tasks of the Partnership Agreement relate to:

– identifying problems, ideas, growing clusters and any other employment policy issues;

– engaging all available sources in favour of an integrated strategy accepted by all partners, based on the needs of the county and established by a formal mandatory LPZ;

improving the coordination of measures related to employment, with the aim of developing the county strategy of the LFS, as part of and elements for encouraging it,

-Support the implementation of case-related measures in line with the LSP strategy.

Membership of the LPZ has the obligation to actively participate in all its activities and to provide the necessary and agreed contributions to:

• developing the RLJP strategy in cooperation with the bodies responsible for the development of the new County Development Strategy, the CES and the stakeholder group,
• developing an action plan, describing the process of implementing the PSLF strategy in line with possible sources of funding;
• thematic working groups, established in the LPZ and chaired by its appointed member,
• organization of project consortia and encourage the development of quality projects under certain calls for proposals and the use of other EU, national and community programmes,
• the functioning of the LPZ itself by enabling similar contributions and ensuring the active participation of responsible persons,
• making recommendations in defining the enrolment policy and school programs of educational institutions in the area of PGC.

The tasks referred to in the LPZ Code are:

1. a) LPZ is the most appropriate body for the preparation and implementation of County Human Development Strategies

Potentials (GDPs) that support the county's development strategy on the basis of consensus

its partners/stakeholders as an umbrella organisation covering all local/regional

Competence and initiatives for labour market development:

1. programming, developing a coordinated strategy, advising on the county development of the RLJP; liaising with the Regional Partnership Council;
2. creating its own programmes at county level – in line with the development strategy and organising their implementation, using all sources of funding;
3. Encouraging and ensuring the involvement of stakeholders in the process of planning and implementing the LSD policy.
4. b) during the organisation and implementation of the activities, the LPZ will apply the working principles of the partnership; and

transparency, both internally and externally;

1. c) LPZ's work is public.

The Local Partnership for Employment has the Assembly, the Management Board and the Secretariat, as well as three thematic working groups: for improving partnership relations and activation measures in the labour market (TRS 1), for the inclusion of socially excluded persons (TRS 2) and for improving the quality of education and science (TRS 3).

The LPZ operates through regular annual sessions of the Assembly, the Management Board and the DSB, where it discusses the implementation of the strategy, evaluating project ideas and monitoring the implementation of various projects, presenting new initiatives for projects and activities that contribute to the implementation of strategic objectives, and others.

President of LPZ PGC

Doris Sošić