- Applications : Until 24/5/2016
- Beneficiaries: Unemployed / New entrepreneurs
- Subsidy: From €15,000 to €60,000
"New Entrepreneurship"
The “Start-up Entrepreneurship” programme aims to create viable micro and small businesses, with an emphasis on innovative business plans, and to boost employment by creating viable new jobs. The programme supports: (a) unemployed people and (b) natural persons carrying out a professional activity, or partnerships/associations of such persons, in order to set up a new business.
Partnerships are allowed between the beneficiaries of the same or different categories from those mentioned above, with the aim of establishing a new small or very small business in one of the following legal forms: LLC, OE, EE, IKE, Social Enterprises of Law 4019/2011 and Cooperative enterprises.
Target Audience
Beneficiary Category A: Unemployed people registered with OAED at the time of application.Beneficiary Category B: Sole traders providing services who are active self-employed professionals, without a salaried employment relationship and not receiving an old-age pension on the date the call is published.Sole traders carrying out commercial activity are not eligible. For the purposes of this scheme, in the case of sole traders with mixed activity, commercial activity is not considered to be carried out if the gross income declared from it represents up to 25% of total gross income from business activity (excluding agricultural activity – tax year 2015).
Submission period
from 17/3/2016 to 27/4/2016
Terms and conditions
CATEGORY A – UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE.
1. To be unemployed and registered in the unemployment register of the OAED when submitting the application.
2. Have a tax registration number (TIN).
3. Each eligible natural person to participate in the submission of a single business plan funding application (either independently or as a partner).
4. To set up businesses exclusively with one of the following business forms: Limited Liability Company, Limited Liability Company, Limited Liability Company, I.K.E, Sole Proprietorship, Cooperative Enterprise as well as Social Cooperative Enterprise of Law 4019/2011.
5. To start a business activity ONLY in the eligible Activity Code Numbers (K.A.D. 2008), as defined in Appendix II from the date of electronic submission of the financing application until the deadline for presenting the supporting documents to be defined in decision with the Provisional list of potential beneficiaries of the Act, which they should maintain throughout the implementation of the project. In addition to have ONLY eligible KAD throughout the duration of the business plan.
6. To operate legally within the Greek Territory.
7. The total amount of de minimis aid received by the single undertaking in the past, including aid from this Action, does not exceed the amount of EUR 200,000 (or EUR 100,000 for the transport sector) within a three-year period (current calendar year and the two (2) previous calendar years) before the time of granting the legal right to the aid.
8. Not to have joined co-financed programs as an individual entrepreneur/professional or a partner in a subsidized company, from 1/1/2012 until the date of submission of the funding application, with the exception of training programs. If their business plan is included in the context of this invitation, they must provide a responsible statement that from the date of submission of the funding application until the date of their inclusion they have not been included in other programs and/or their written waiver of their application for funding from another E .P., if it is in the evaluation phase. The application should bear a notification stamp from the relevant Administrative Authority of the EP. or the competent EF. All of the above conditions of participation also apply in the case of corporate forms, for each beneficiary/partner separately. Natural persons who, when submitting the business plan, are either spouses or relatives are excluded from corporate forms 1st and 2nd grade.
CATEGORY B – APPRENTICES PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
1. They must be sole traders providing services who are active self-employed professionals, without a salaried employment relationship and not receiving an old-age pension on the date the call is published. Sole traders carrying out commercial activity are not eligible. For the purposes of this call, in the case of sole traders with mixed activity, commercial activity is not considered to be carried out if the gross income declared from it represents up to 25% of total gross income from business activity (excluding agricultural activity – tax year 2015).
2. Have a tax registration number (TIN).
3. Each eligible natural person to participate in the submission of a single business plan funding application (either independently or as a partner).
4. To set up businesses exclusively with one of the following business forms: Limited Liability Company, Limited Liability Company, Limited Liability Company, IKE, Cooperative Business as well as Social Cooperative Business of Law 4019/2011.
5. To start a business activity ONLY in the eligible Activity Code Numbers (C.A.D. 2008), as defined in Appendix III, from the date of electronic submission of the financing application until the final date of presentation of the supporting documents that will be set in the Decision with the Provisional list of potential beneficiaries whom KAD should maintain throughout the implementation of the project. In addition to have ONLY eligible KAD throughout the duration of the business plan.
6. To operate legally within the Greek Territory.
7. The total amount of de minimis aid received by the single undertaking in the past, including aid from this Action, does not exceed the amount of EUR 200,000 (or EUR 100,000 for the transport sector) within a three-year period (current calendar year and the two (2) previous calendar years) before the time of granting the legal right to the aid.
8. Not to have joined co-financed programs as an individual entrepreneur/professional or a partner in a subsidized company, from 1/1/2012 until the date of submission of the funding application, with the exception of training programs. If their business plan is included in the context of this invitation, they must provide a responsible statement that from the date of submission of the funding application until the date of their inclusion they have not been included in other programs and/or their written waiver of their application for funding from another E .P., if it is in the evaluation phase. The application should bear a notification stamp from the relevant Administrative Authority of the EP. or the competent EF.
What is funded
Eligible expenses are as follows:
1. Operational (rents of business space, costs of electricity, fixed and mobile business telephony, water supply, heating, other common costs, costs of accommodation in incubators, etc.)
2. Expenses for third-party fees (legal, consulting, accounting support, incubator services, drafting and monitoring of a business plan and professional training, etc.)
3. Exhibition, networking and exhibition participation expenses
4. Depreciation of fixed assets / Financial leasing of equipment
5. Purchase / Lease of equipment / Small-scale interior design
6. Supply of Consumables
7. Beneficiary insurance contributions (entrepreneur/partners)
8. Salary costs for new position(s) (NTE)
9. Costs of preparing, submitting, registering or renewing a recognized title of industrial or intellectual property
INFORMATION
Contact KEK KEPETH for more information
9 Vassani Street, 38333 Volos
Tel. Contact: 24210-30535
Useful information
The official call for the “Start-up Entrepreneurship” Programme has been issued by the Operational Programme Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EPAnEK) of NSRF (ESPA) 2014-2020.
The programme supports the setting up of new businesses by natural persons born before 1 January 1991 in the EPAnEK priority sectors: Agri-food, Energy, Cultural and Creative Industries, Supply Chain, Environment, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Health – Pharmaceuticals, Materials – Construction. Investment proposals submitted will have a subsidised budget of up to €60,000 and the aid rate is set at 100%.
