PNDR – Funding for agriculture

November 4th, 2015

The Funding Agency for Rural Investments (AFIR) extended the sessions for submitting projects under Submeasure 4.1.a „Support for investments in fruit-growing holdings” until 30th November 2015 and Submeasure 4.2 „Support for investments in processing/marketing and/or development of agricultural products” and Submeasure 4.2.a „Support for investments in processing/marketing of products in the fruit-growing sector”, until 18 December 2015

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

Type of investments financed: modernization of fruit-growing farms, reconversion of fruit plantations, modernization of fruit nurseries, storage systems, conditioning and packaging and on-farm processing units, including mobile processing units, etc.,
Grant awarded: up to 1.050.000 euro.
Financing rate: up to 90% of eligible expenses.

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

Type of investments financed: Setting-up, extension and/or modernization and endowment of processing units, including investments in products’ marketing (e.g. labelling, packaging); Setting-up, extension and/ or modernization of local networks of collection, reception, storage, conditioning, selection and packaging capacity; Improvement of internal quality control and compliance with the new standards imposed by the European legislation, etc.
Grant awarded: up to 2.500.000 euro.
Financing rate: up to 50% of eligible expenses.

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

Type of investments 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/for the sale of fruit products within short-chains/in the process flow: tanks, isotherm, camper and food caravans;
Grant awarded: up to 1.500.000 euro.
Financing rate: up to 50% of eligible expenses.

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New POCU Applicant’s Guidelines!

October 12th, 2015

Ministry of European Funds, through its Directorate for Human Capital Programs, published for consultation two guidelines:

  1. Applicant’s Guidelines – Specific Conditions “Integrated measures for NEETs from the following regions: Centre, South-East and South-Muntenia”, Priority Axis 1: “Youth Employment” Initiative;
  2. Applicant’s Guidelines – Specific Conditions “Integrated measures for NEETs from the following regions: North-East, North-West, West, South-West Oltenia, Bucharest-Ilfov , Priority Axis 2: “Improvement of the situation of NEETs category”;
  3. Applicant’s Guidelines – Specific Conditions: Integrated Local Development, Priority Axis 4 – “Social inclusion and combating poverty”.

The first two guidelines are a continuation of the guide published for consultation in June 2015. Eligible activities under these calls focuses mainly on growing NEETs employment (young persons not in employment, education or training), aged between 16-24 years registered at the Public Employment Service, residing in the eligible regions according with the axis concerned.
The funding will be provided in the form of non-reimbursable grants under minimis scheme or under state aid scheme. Minimis projects will have a value between 50.000 euro and 200.000 euro (with a 100% grant) while projects under the state aid scheme will have a value between 50.000 and 500.000 euro (the grant may reach up to 70% for SMEs and 60% for large companies for the disadvantaged workers training and up to 50% for the employment of disadvantaged workers).

The third Guideline, published under Priority Axis 4, covers all developing regions, the main objective of this call being reduction of the number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion from marginalized communities with Roma minority population (communities where the Roma minority represents at least 10% of the population), by implementing integrated measures. The value of projects will be between 200.000 and 500.000 euro for projects implemented in Bucharest-Ilfov region, while for the projects implemented in the other regions the project value will be between 1.000.000 and 2.000.000 euro, with a 95%/ 98% grant, depending on the type of applicant.

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PNDR – New funds for rural area

October 1st, 2015

Starting with 24th of September 2015, the Funding Agency for Rural Investments (AFIR) launched the following financing lines with continuous submission until 18th of December 2015:

  • Submeasure 4.3A „Support for investments related to development, modernization or adaptation of agriculture and forestry infrastructure” – component farm access roads.

Type of investments to be financed: Construction, extension and/ or modernization of farm access roads.
Grant awarded: up to 1.000.000 euro.
Financing rate:100% of eligible expenses.
Beneficiaries: Administrative-territorial units and/ or their associations.

  • Submeasure 7.2 Investments in creation and modernization of small-scale infrastructure

Type of investments to be financed: construction, expansion and/ or modernization of the local-interest roads network, the public water supply network, the public waste-water network, educational/ social infrastructure: setting-up or modernization of kindergartens, nurseries and after-school type infrastructure.
Grant awarded: up to 4.000.000 euro.
Financing rate:100% of eligible expenses.
Beneficiaries: Communes and their associations, NGOs for investments in the educational infrastructure (kindergartens) and social infrastructure (nurseries and after-school units).

  • Submeasure 7.6 Investments associated with the protection of cultural heritage

Type of investments to be financed: restoration, preservation and endowment of buildings/ monuments of local-interest intangible cultural heritage – class B, or monastic settlements – class B, access roads of monastic settlements, modernization, restoration and/ or endowment of community centers.
Grant awarded: up to 500.000 euro.
Financing rate:100% of eligible expenses.
Beneficiaries: Communes, NGOs, Cult entities, Natural legal person/ companies that have and manage class B public utility cultural heritage objectives.

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The submision for SME’s and clusters from ICT field projects is postponed

September 30th, 2015

The Ministry of Communication and Information Society – Intermediate Body for Promotion of the Information Society announced the postponement of the date on which the projects for proposals for the Competitiveness Operational Programme 2014 – 2020, Priority Axis 2 , Action 2.2.1 “Support for increasing of added value generated by ICT and innovation in the field by developing clusters” can be submitted.

The submission will be made on-line, continuously, starting on 2nd of November 2015, at 10:00 and will end on 1st of February 2016, at 16:30.

Applicant Guide – reissued and also the related changes can be found at: http://fonduri.mcsi.ro , Section Guidelines for Applicants/ Opened Calls.

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“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” Program Available with European Funding

September 7th, 2015

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peoples®, renowned as the world’s comprehensive personal development program, can now be accessed with European Funds. FranklinCovey Romania, supported by VAPRO Romania, has obtained the ANC accreditation for it`s Program „ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peoples® program, based on the proven principles of effectiveness from the best-seller with the same name written by Dr. Steven R. Covey, helps organizations achieve sustained superior results.

The participants go through an unique experience by applying the principles that generate greater productivity, improved interpersonal communication, more trust in relationships, increased personal influence and conflict resolution.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peoples® is a proven process of building leadership at every level of the organization. During several months, the participants benefit from a 360 degree evaluation and re-evaluation, attend the interactive work sessions where they use tools for applying the concepts, watch more than 20 award-winning FranklinCovey training videos and live the habits at work and home.

The program characteristics that differentiate The 7 Habits from the other leadership courses are its unique, proprietary and globally renowned content and its inside-out approach of personal development (paradigm-behavior-result).

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Up to 3,2 million lei for SME’s and clusters from ICT field

August 21st, 2015

EU Funds Ministry announced the launch of a call for SMEs that activate in the information and communication technologies (IT&C) field, starting with 1st of October, until 23rd of December 2015.

 Eligible applicants:

  • Enterprises (micro, small, medium enterprises) operating in Romania, focused on ICT.
  • Enterprises (micro, small, medium enterprises) operating in Romania members of clusters focused on ICT.
  • Consortia (partnerships) of micro, small, medium enterprises operating in Romania, members of clusters focused on ICT.

The maximum grant awarded: 3.200.000 lei, approximately 723.000 euro.

The support will target the development of innovative ICT products/ services/ applications through:

  • Investments in tangible and intangible assets within an initial investment, with funding up to 70% of the eligible expenditure
  • Investments in industrial research and experimental development, with funding up to 80% of the eligible expenditure
  • Investments in projects for innovation of SMEs, with funding up to 50% of the eligible expenditure
  • Investments in projects regarding process and organizational innovation, with funding up to 50% of the eligible expenditure

A series of expenditure within the project will fall under the minimis aid and in this case the percentage of funding is 100%, for this expenditure.

Financing percentages will vary depending on the company size and the region of implementation of the project.

VAPRO can assist you in developing successful projects!

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Grants for new work places – open call in August

August 13th, 2015

The Ministry of Public Finance announced the launch of a new session for project proposals through GD 332/2014, from 24.08.2015 – 18.09.2015.

We remind you of the most important details of this financing opportunity:

Eligible applicants are companies (large and SMEs) from all economic sectors, except companies activating in areas such as: aquaculture, primary production, processing and marketing of agricultural products, steel, shipbuilding, production of synthetic fibers, transportation and energetic sectors and all sectors listed in Annex 1 to GD 332 /2014.

The investment must meet the following conditions:

  • it must be considered an initial investment: setting up of a new unit, expanding an existing unit, unit production diversification or fundamental change to the production process
  • leads to the creation of at least 10 new work places, out of which at least 3 for disadvantaged workers, for each investment location

Eligible expenses: total salary costs related to the new work places created as a result of an investment project, calculated for 2 consecutive years.

The grant awarded is differentiated according to the implementation region:

  • up to 15 % in the Bucharest Region
  • up to 35 % in the West and Ilfov Regions
  • up to 50 % in North-West, Center, North-East, South-East, South-Muntenia, South-West Oltenia Regions

The estimated budget for this session is 367 mil lei.

VAPRO can assist you in developing successful projects!

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Grants for micro-enterprises from the urban area – 200.000 euro, 100% non-refundable.

August 3rd, 2015

The consultative version of the Applicant Guideline for the development of micro-enterprises, Investment Priority 2.1 axis 2 – Improvement of competitiveness of SME’s, within the  Regional Operational Program (POR) was published.

Eligible beneficiaries are: commercial companies or cooperative companies that are micro enterprises, according to Law 346/2004, with at least 1 year of activity.

Types of investments:

  • Construction, extension, modernization of the production area or for services activities, including the general utilities
  • Acquisition of technological equipment, machines, working tools, specific furniture, IT equipment, office supplement, registered as fixed assets
  • Acquisition of specific equipment and installations used for obtaining energy efficiency and/ or systems using renewable or alternative sources of energy, for increasing the efficiency for the activities that are financed through the project (up to 15% of the eligible value of the project)
  • Investments in non tangible assets: licenses, patents, copyrights, software, etc.
  • Investments for developing websites for the company’s activity and products presenting, and/ or other e-commerce tools
  • Consulting and support services for the project (up to 7% of the eligible value of the project)

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

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Grants for agriturism units – PNDR 2014-2020

July 30th, 2015

Our colleague, Florentina, explains to you how you can get non-reimbursable EU funds for agri-turism units through PNDR, what an agri-turism unit means, which are the conditions that you must meet and what are the steps needed to be made while developing such a project, in an article published today on Wall Street.

European funds for agri-turism units are available through the National Rural Development Programme, submeasure 6.4 “Support for investments in creating and developing non-agricultural activities”, launched on 14th of July this year.
Grant awarded: up to 200.000 euro
Financing rate: 90% of eligible expenses

The applicant must fall into the category of micro or small enterprise, to conduct a business related to investments in rural areas, with registered office and registered places of business in rural areas and to be able to assure the co-financing of the investment.

Projects can be submitted until 30th of October 2015 and the evaluation of the projects will be done on a monthly basis, for projects that have an estimated score (self-evaluation / pre-scoring) greater than or equal to the monthly quality threshold required by AFIR.

For more information please visit the article published on the Wall Street:
http://www.wall-street.ro/articol/Legal-Business/186906/fonduri-europene-pentru-pensiuni-agroturistice.html

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Grants for companies for hiring young graduates – POCU 2014-2020

June 26th, 2015

We inform you that AMPOCU published for consultation the first guides for the 2014-2020 programming period. The first call for proposals has an allocation of 55 million euro, aims Axes 1 and 2 and is estimated to be launched starting with July 2015.

Eligible beneficiaries are large companies and SMEs, that can apply in partnership with authorized training or career guidance and counseling services providers, for accessing minimis or state aid type of non-refundable grants. The projects target unemployed young graduates (NEET) aged 16-24 years.

Minimis projects have a value between 50.000 and 200.000 euro, and the percentage of the grant is 100%. The eligible activities that address youth are :

  • career counseling actions (100 euro / person)
  • training (400 euro/ person)
  • apprenticeship  (250 euro / person / month during apprenticeship)
  • internships for graduates of higher education (300 euro / person / internship period)
  • employment on new created work places (euro 200 grant / person / month * 12 months).

State aid projects have a value between 50.000 and 500.000 euro and funding can reach up to 70% for SMEs or 60% for large companies. The eligible activities that address youth are :

  • grants for the employment of the target group members (euro 200 grant / person / month * 12 months)
  • training activities (euro 400 / person).

We invite you to transform your ideas into successful projects!

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