Deadline: 18-Nov-21
The Innovation Norway a new Call for Proposals under the SMEs Growth Programme in Romania, through the EEA and Norway Grants. This call will finance projects submitted by Romanian start-ups. The projects should contribute to “increased competitiveness for Romanian enterprises within the mentioned areas”, in the form of growth in turnover and net operational profit and job creation.
The Programme has the objective to increase value creation and sustainable growth in Romanian business sector. The Programme seeks to stimulate and develop long-term business cooperation between Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway (hereafter referred to as “the Donor States”) and Romania based on business development and innovation.
Focus Areas
The focus of the projects should be one of the three main areas of the Programme:
- Green Industry Innovation,
- Blue Growth and
- ICT
- A total of 1,000,000 euro.
- Between 10,000 euro and 200,000 euro per project.
- A Donor Partnership Project: is defined as cooperation between a Project Promoter in Romania and at least one legal entity in the Donor States, implementing a project where all entities are independent of each other and perform substantial and relevant tasks in the completion of the project. Such projects will be awarded additional points during project assessment.
- A Partnership Project: is defined as cooperation between a Project Promoter in Romania and at least one legal entity in Romania, implementing a project where all entities which are independent of each other and perform substantial and relevant tasks in completion of the project.
- Green Industry Innovation
- Development, implementation and investment in innovative environmentally friendly technologies
- Development of green products, services and technologies
- Development and implementation of “greener production processes”
- Blue Growth
- Development and investment in coastal and maritime tourism
- Development and investment in blue bio technology
- Development and investment in sea bed mining resources
- Development of innovative solutions related to marine litter and waste
- Development of innovative technologies for water supply, including desalination
- ICT
- Development of ICT products/processes/solutions
- Development of products/processes/solutions using ICT components
- Eligible applicant:
- Micro and small enterprises, as defined in the EU Recommendation 2003/3611, registered as legal entities in Romania and functioning in accordance to enforced Romanian legislation on commercial companies, respectively: Law 31/1990 regarding commercial companies, republished, with subsequent modifications and completions and
- Government Ordinance 6/2011 to stimulate the establishment and development of micro-enterprises by debutants start-ups in business, with subsequent amendments and completions
- The applicants:
- must have been established and registered with at least 6 months and maximum 4 years of operation at the date of the deadline of the call;
- must be operating within one of the three focus areas of programme (Green Industry Innovation, Blue growth and ICT).
- eligible applicants shall be unlisted small2 enterprises up to four years following their registration, which have not yet distributed profits and have not been formed through a merger.
- Eligible partners:
- Any private or public entity, commercial or non-commercial, and nongovernmental organizations registered in Romania or in one of the Donor States (Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway)
For more information, visit https://www.innovasjonnorge.no/en/start-page/eea-norway-grants/Programmes/business-development/romania/startupromania/