The SMEs Growth Programme in Romania has launched an open call with funding to startups in Romania and cooperation with Norway and Iceland.
The call ‘Boost to Romanian Business sector: Business growth in Start-ups in the areas of Green Industry Innovation, ICT and Blue Growth’ is open until 14 July.
Innovation Norway also invites 10 applicants to the calls for startups to Oslo Innovation Week in September. See the call, event and presentations on how to apply here!
Read the call text in English: Call for Proposal, Support for Start-ups
Read the call text in Romanian: Call for Proposal, Support for Start-ups
Thursday, 14 July 2022, 14:00 (Romanian time).
Projects must be completed by 30 April 2024 at the latest.
A total of 3,584,738 euro.
Between 10,000 euro and 200,000 euro per project.
This call will finance projects submitted by Romanian start-ups. The focus of the projects should be one of the three main areas of the Programme: Green Industry Innovation, Blue Growth and ICT.
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.
This call can provide support for projects that will develop and implement activities within the enterprise applying for funding, in one or more of the following areas. Projects must contribute directly to increased revenues and improved capacity for business development of the applicants. Read more about this in the call text.
Romanian micro and small enterprises. The applicants:
The start-ups can apply to the call together with partners. The partners can be entities in Romania or in one of the Donor States (Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein).
Eligible partners are any private or public entity, commercial or non-commercial, established as a legal person in Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein or in Romania.
Innovation Norway has organised two webinars as well as a matchmaking for startups interested in applying for this call. You can see the recordings and presentations from these webinars here: Startups in Romania - Open Call, Recording of Webinars and Presentations on How to Apply.
Innovation Norway invites a selection of 10 applicants to this call to participate at Oslo Innovation Week in September 2022. The participants will receive trave grants. See more informatioln on the event website: Oslo Innovation Week - Networking Event with Businesses in Europe.
