16 Mai – Primele lansari in cadrul POCU 2014-2020!

April 20th, 2016

Ministerul Fondurilor Europene, prin Directia Generala Programe Capital Uman, a lansat astazi 20.04.2016 primele doua apeluri de propuneri de proiecte:

  • Axa 4, Obiectivul specific 4.1. Reducerea numarului de persoane aflate in risc de saracie si excluziune sociala din comunitatile marginalizate in care exista populatie apartinand minoritatii rome, prin implementarea de masuri integrate – buget alocat: 219.002.325 euro;
  • Axa 4, Obiectivul specific 4.2. Reducerea numarului de persoane aflate in risc de saracie si excluziune sociala din comunitatile marginalizate (non roma), prin implementarea de masuri integrate –  buget alocat: 131.270.125 euro;

Prin urmare autoritatile publice locale si ONG-urile cu responsabilitati in domeniu, in parteneriat cu actori cu expertiza relevanta vor putea depune proiecte in cadrul apelurilor in perioada 16 mai – 1 august 2016.

De asemenea, a fost publicata si forma finala a Ghidului Solicitantului – Conditii Generale, denumit: Orientari privind accesarea finantarilor in cadrul Programului Operational Capital Uman 2014-2020.

Ghidurile, cat si anexele aferente acestora, pot fi consultate pe site-ul Ministerului Fondurilor Europene in sectiunea: POCU / Implementare proiecte.

16 May – The first launches within HCOP 2014-2020!

April 20th, 2016

The Ministry of European Funds, through its Directorate for Human Capital Programs, launched today, 20 April 2016, the first two calls for projects:

  • Axis 4, Specific objective 4.1. Reducing the number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion from marginalized communities where there is Roma minority population by implementing integrated measures – allocated budget: 219.002.325 euro;
  • Axis 4, Specific objective 4.2. Reducing the number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion of marginalized communities (non-Roma) by implementing integrated measures – allocated budget: 131.270.125 euro;

Thus, local authorities and NGOs with responsibilities in the specific field, in partnership with stakeholders with relevant expertise can submit projects within the calls during 16th of May – 1st of August 2016.

Moreover, the Ministry has published the final form of the Applicants Guidelines – General Conditions.

The Guidelines and the annexes can be consulted on the website of the Ministry of European Funds in the section: POCU / Projects implementation.

HCOP – Updated calendar of calls for projects!

March 24th, 2016

The Ministry of European Funds updated the calendar of calls for projects for Human Capital Operational Programme.

The launching of projects for young unemployed NEETs is still foreseen for March while the launching of projects for unemployed adults has been moved from October-November to June.

Along with other updates, the calendar presents also a detailed list of the medical screening services to be financed and also the age categories for the target group foreseen by each type or project.

The complete calendar can be accessed here.

First launches within ROP 2014-2020

March 8th, 2016

Financing for microenterprises available with March 28th!

The calls calendar for six investment priorities within ROP 2014-2020, for which the applicant’s guidelines have already passed through the stage of public consultation. The call for projects for the development of microenterprises is scheduled to be launched during 28th March – 1st of April.

MySMIS 2014 – module for submitting financing applications

Starting from today and up to Friday, 18th of March, MySMIS 2014 system – the module for submitting financing applications, is opened for testing.

We kindly ask the interested persons to test all the functionalities of this application and to report to Ministry any kind of potential problems in order to prepare a smooth application process.

HCOP – Guidelines for Applicants – General Conditions 2016 available for public debate

March 2nd, 2016

Ministry of European Funds, through its Directorate for Human Capital Operational Program, published for consultation the Guidelines for Applicants – General Conditions for 2016, named also Guidance on funding opportunities within Human Capital Operational Programme 2014 – 2020”.
 
Below you can find some of the news in the guidelines:

  • The applicants and partners need to have a digital signature certificate to sign the application form and associated documents;
  • An entity can’t participate, as an applicant and/or partner, in more than 5 projects submitted under the same call for proposals;
  • Besides the reimbursement and payment requests mechanisms, the applicants can also use the new pre-financing mechanism, requesting from the IB/MA OPHC an advance payment for the financial resources necessary to cover the costs of human resources and participants, once for each 3 months;
  • The salary thresholds remain similar to the ones from the Applicant’s Guidelines – General Conditions 2015;
  • Cash payments will be considered eligible only in duly justified cases if it is not possible to pay by bank transfer / postal order and only with the prior approval of the IB /MA HCOP.

This document is in public debate until 11.03.2016 (14:00) and the improvement proposals should be sent by e–mail to: consultare.pocu@fonduri-ue.ro.

Detailed version of calls for projects calendar within HCOP – News!

March 1st, 2016

The Ministry of European Funds published a detailed version of calls for projects calendar within Human Capital Operational Programme.
The main news in the updated version of the calendar is the announcement of a call for internship projects in July 2016.

Below you can find the updated foreseen launching dates for some of the most important project calls:
 
Axis 1 and 2:

  • Employment and training measures for young NEETs – March;
  • Measures in the field of entrepreneurship for young people – March;

Axis 3:

  • Measures for employment and training for unemployed people, persons from rural area (November) and Roma people (October);
  • Supporting entrepreneurship, including in creative fields – March and December;
  • Human resources management and outplacement – December;
  • Training for employees – September;

Axis 4:

  • Reducing the number of people in risk of poverty and social exclusion with accent on Roma people (March) and non-Roma people (May);
  • Training of medical staff – March, June and September;
  • Screening activities for beneficiaries of medical services – June – September;
  • Increasing the number of beneficiaries of medical services and encouraging the use of ICT solutions in healthcare field – November;
  • Measures for young people from orphanages and foster parents – September;

Axis 6:

  • “Second chance” programmes for NEETs – March;
  • Reducing early school leaving phenomenon, training for teachers from non-university education, including the diversification of educational offers – March;
  • Support for participation to tertiary education (scholarships etc), teachers training and diversification of educational offers – July;
  • Support for participation to initial (July) and continuous (September) training;
  • Internship programs – July;
  • Measures for sustaining doctoral and postdoctoral programs – June;

The complete calendar can be accessed here.

Call for micro-enterprises – 200.000 euro with 100% grant

February 29th, 2016

The second consultative version of the Applicant Guideline for the development of micro-enterprises, within the Regional Operational Program (POR) has been published for public debate until 1.03.2016. The launch of this financing line is estimated for the next period.

Some of most important changes in the new version of the guide:

  • The condition for an applicant to record operating profit for thelast fiscal yearis nowmandatory;
  • The companies that had no employees in last fiscal year are now permitted to apply as long as they have at least 1 full time employee for an indefinite period at the moment of the project submission;
  • The guide has clarified the regions excluded from funding: the investments made in Bucharest – Ilfov and ITI Delta Dunarii regions are not eligible;
  • The introduction of a co-financing of at least 10% from the applicant for a higher score of the project.

The main conditions to access this financing line:

  • The applicant must be a micro-enterprise: company or cooperative (up to 9 employees, up to 2.000.000 euro turnover);
  • The investment is made in an eligible sector according to the CAEN codes published in the Guidelines for the Applicants;
  • The applicant has at least one full fiscal year (established at the latest 01.01.2015) without suspended activity in 2015-2016.

Types of eligible investments:

  • Construction, extension, modernization of the production activities/ area;
  • Acquisition of technological equipment, machines, working tools, specific furniture, IT and office equipment, including specific equipment and installations used for obtaining energy efficiency;
  • Investments in nontangible assets: licenses, patents, copyrights, software, including expenses related to e-commerce solutions;
  • Consulting and support services for the project (up to 10%, depending of the type of the project).

Eligible value of the project: between 25.000 euro – 200.000 euro.
Grant financing percentage: up to 100% from the eligible costs.

All the conditions that beneficiaries must meet to access this funding, and the new scoring grid can be found here.

Financing for fruit farming and training for farmers – NRDP

February 29th, 2016

New guidelines have been published for public consultation for the National Program for Rural Development 2014-2020. These measures target 4.1.a Investments in fruit-growing holdings, 4.2.a Investments in processing / marketing of products in the fruit-growing sector (you can find the documents here) and  1.1 Support for training and and skills acquiring actions (see the documents here).

Please find below more details on these financing lines for the private sector:

  • Sub measure 4.1.a Support for investments in fruit-growing holdings

Type of investments to be financed: modernization of fruit-growing farms, re conversion of fruit plantations, modernization of fruit nurseries, storage systems, conditioning and packaging and on-farm processing units, etc.

Grant awarded: up to 1.050.000 euro.
Financing rate: up to 90% of eligible expenses.

  • Sub measure 4.2.a Support for investments in processing/marketing of products in the fruit-growing sector

Type of investments to be financed: setting-up, extension and / or modernization of processing units for the raw material from the fruit-growing sector, mobile processing units / local networks for collection, reception, storage, conditioning, selection and packaging; purchasing of new machinery, installations, equipment and specialized transportation for the collection of raw material.

Grant awarded: up to 1.500.000 euro.
Financing rate: up to 50% of eligible expenses.

  • Sub measure 1.1 Support for training and skills acquisition actions

Type of eligible costs: salary expenses for expert trainers, accommodation, meals and transportation costs for the participants, teaching materials and consumables, renting of the necessary equipment and space to carry out the training actions.

Grant awarded: up to 195.000 euro.
Financing rate: 100% of eligible expenses.

Grants for food industry – NRDP

February 19th, 2016

The Agency for Financing Rural Investments (AFIR) has published a new consultative guideline for the state aid scheme: Regional development stimulation through investments for processing and marketing of agricultural products to obtain non-agricultural products and the minims scheme: Support for consulting services needed for the implementation of the investments projects for processing and marketing of agricultural products to obtain non-agricultural products. The documents can be consulted here.

We present further details regarding these financing lines, for the private sector:

The State aid scheme GBER: Regional development stimulation through investments for processing and marketing of agricultural products to obtain non-agricultural products.

  • Type of investments to be financed: Constructions, extension and endowment of processing units from food industry; Purchase of new equipment, installations and specialized transportation vehicles.
  • Grant awarded: up to 500.000 euro.
  • Financing rate: up to 50% of eligible expenses.

The minims scheme: Support for consulting services needed for the implementation of the investments projects for processing and marketing of agricultural products to obtain non-agricultural products.

  • Grant awarded: up to 000 euro representing consultancy expenditure of an investment project for processing agricultural products.
  • Financing rate: up to 100% of the consultancy eligible expenses.

Consultative Guides for new NRDP launches

February 17th, 2016

The Funding Agency for Rural Investments (AFIR) has published new consultative guides for the first calls for project proposals that will be launched starting with March 2016. Guides for the following sub-measures were published: 4.1 “Investments in agricultural holdings”, 4.2 “Support for investments in processing / marketing and / or development of agricultural products”, 4.3 „Support for investments related to development, modernization or adaptation of agriculture and forestry infrastructure” – road access infrastructure component, 4.3 „Support for investments related to development, modernization or adaptation of agriculture and forestry infrastructure” –irrigation  component, 6.1 Support for setting-up young farmers, 6.3 “Business start-up aid for the development of small farms”, 7.2 “Investments in creation and modernization of small-scale infrastructure”, 7.6 “Investments associated with the protection of cultural heritage”. The documents can be consulted here.

We present more details for two of the most attractive financing lines for the private sector, such as:

  • Sub measure 4.1 Investments in agricultural holdings

Type of investments to be financed: Construction, extension, modernization and endowment of constructions from livestock or vegetal farms etc.

Grant awarded: up to 2.000.000 euro.
Financing rate: up to 90% of eligible expenses.

  • Sub measure 4.2 Support for investments in processing / marketing and / or development of agricultural products

Type of investments to be financed: Setting-up, extension and / or modernization and endowment of processing units, including investments in products’ marketing (e.g. labelling, packaging), local networks of collection, reception, storage, conditioning, selection and packaging capacity etc.

Grant awarded: up to 2.500.000 euro.
Financing rate: up to 50% of eligible expenses.

Comparing with the previous sessions, starting with 2016, a beneficiary can submit more than one project within the same sub-measure, in the same session or in different sessions, if the total value of the requested grant meets several conditions from the Applicant’s Guide regarding the types of investments made.

Consultative Guides for new NRDP launches