Open call "Quality Signals" for submission of project proposals (grants)

Open call for proposals (grants)

Entrepreneurship

Micro-entrepreneurs

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

7.500.000,00 kn

European Regional Development Fund

OP Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014-2020

The call for proposals will be implemented under the Operational Programme Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014-2020, Priority 3 "Business Competitiveness"; Investment priority 3d "Supporting the creation of the capacity of SMEs to engage in the growth process in regional, national and international markets and innovation processes"; Specific Objective 3d1 "Improved development and growth of SMEs in domestic and foreign markets".

Call "Quality Characteristics", Reference: KK.03.2.1.11., is intended for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises with the aim of obtaining quality signs to increase their competitiveness and contribute to increasing the recognition of Croatian products and services on the open market.

The aim of the Call is to increase the recognition of the quality of services and products of SMEs, which will ensure the preconditions for increasing sales revenues, exports and overall competitiveness and consequently, contribute to the creation of the Croatian identity on the common and global market.

The awarded grants will co-finance, through vouchers, project activities related to the exercise of the right to use the following quality marks:

– "Croatian quality"

– ‘Original Croatian’

– ‘Traditional crafts’,

– ‘Artistic crafts’.

The voucher may be awarded for the acquisition of a sign(s) by an eligible service provider:

– Croatian Chamber of Commerce

– Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts

Eligible applicants: Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises

Total allocation: 7.500.000,00 HRK

Types of aid: De minimis aid

Available funds per applicant (min. - max. amount):

The maximum value of the voucher, i.e. the maximum grant amount that can be awarded to a particular project, is HRK 75,000.00.

Aid intensity: up to 100% eligible costs.

Grants will be awarded through a permanently open Call with a deadline for submission of project proposals from 10 September 2018 from 11 a.m. to 29 June 2020, i.e. until the available funds are used, in the total value of HRK 7 500 000.00.   

 Project proposals are submitted electronically, through the system eFunds.

Questions with a clearly indicated reference to the Invitation can only be sent via e-mail to the following address P16-zk@mingo.hr.

Inquiries received at other addresses will not be taken into account, nor will the answers to such questions be published in the manner prescribed by the rules of the Call.

Tender documentation can be found here.

Information workshop for applicants

Workshop Call for proposals "Quality Characteristics" (Reference: KK.03.2.1.11.) will be held on Friday, August 31, 2018 starting at 11:00 am in the Cinema Hall of the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts (Ulica grada Vukovara 78, Zagreb)

Expected duration of the workshop: 1.5 hours

You can register for the workshop via the link: http://bit.ly/2LeTAJ0