The City of Rijeka has published a public call for applications for non-refundable subsidies from the General Programme of Measures to Encourage the Development of Entrepreneurship in the City of Rijeka.
Non-repayable 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.
Undertakings may benefit from subsidies under the following measures:
- 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
- Subsidisation costs of preparation of project proposals for co-financing from European Union funds
- Subsidisation of the costs of vocational training and upskilling of employees
Non-repayable subsidies shall be granted in accordance with the rules laid down in Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 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 EU on de minimis aid.
You can apply:
- 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 established as legal entities 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 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.
This year, certain novelties are introduced in the process of conducting the Public Call, and they relate to the introduction of qualitative criteria that will score the submitted applications. Based on such scoring, the ranking of applicants will be defined, i.e. the beneficiaries of subsidies will be determined according to this Public Call.
Also, the novelty compared to the publication of the Public Call from last year is the possibility of submitting applications for a maximum of two measures, according to which the applicant can achieve a maximum amount of HRK 75,000.00 of non-refundable subsidies.
For the implementation of the Public Call in the budget of the City of Rijeka in 2018, HRK 2 million and 75 thousand were provided.
The public call is open on September 26, 2018, and applications are received from October 1, 2018 at 8 a.m. to October 31, 2018 at 11 p.m. and 59 minutes.
Applications to the Public Call are received via the eServices portal of the City of Rijeka under the Entrepreneurship section, i.e. the Information Service of the City of Rijeka (on-line application/e-form), where there are detailed instructions on the application procedure.
Detailed information on individual measures, as well as information on the necessary documentation to be attached in the application, can be found in the text of the Public Call itself. Also, it is possible to get the same on the phone numbers: +385 51 209 214 and +385 51 209 590.
The list of beneficiaries who are eligible for subsidies under this Public Call will be published on the website of the City of Rijeka, and a notice about this will be delivered to users via e-mail.
