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The Intermediate Body for SMEs published the final version for the Applicant’s Guide for Operation 1.1.1.A2 – “Financial support of up to 1.065.000 lei for investment in SMEs”, for the 2011 project call.

We would like to inform you about some of the most important changes that this final version brings, in comparison with the formerly published version:

1. The economic and financial analysis will be based on financial data for year 2011;
2. The implementation period will be of up to one year for projects that do not imply construction and/ or upgrade of a production hall and up to two years for projects that imply construction and /or modernization of a production hall;
3. The project budget will include a line of “Strengthening the exchange rate” of up to 10% of the grant aid;
4. Withdrawal of pre-financing: pre-financing will be withdrawn if the beneficiary has not submitted any requests for reimbursement within four months from receiving it (the previous term was six months).

To view the full text of the Applicant’s Guide, and other changes concerning the process of contracting and the financing contract for this operation, please visit the following link:

http://oiimm.mimmcma.ro/sites/oiimm.mimmcma.ro/files/GhidMici2011.pdf

We look forward to turning your ideas into successful projects!

MASOPHRD publishes the updated calendar for launching project calls in 2011.
Therefore, the three project calls scheduled for the upcoming period (2.2. – Prevention of early school leaving, 2.3. – Access and participation in lifelong learning, 6.4. – Transnational initiatives for an inclusive labour market), will be launched in December – January.
Moreover, the new calendar brings a significant change: the call for the Key Area of Intervention  2.3 will be a call for grant projects, instead of a strategic one.
For accesing the new calendar, please visit MASOPHRD’s website, at the following link:
http://www.fseromania.ro/images/downdocs/calendar_orientativ_lansari_noiembrie_2011.pdf

Today, the 22^nd of November, the Intermediate Body for SMEs informes all the potential beneficiaries of European grants, according to Operation 1.1.1.A2 – “Financial support of up to 1.065 million lei for investment in SMEs”, about the approval of the final version of the Beneficiary’s Guide and the launch of the 2011 project call.

Tha call will remain open until the 31^st of may 2011, at 4pm and the electronic submittal will start the 12^th of January 2012. The total budget of the call is 611,6 million lei.

All the submitted projects will be evaluated and the projects declared eligible and approved for financing will be granted, in decreasing order of the scores obtained, until the exhaustion of the budget.

For further details and for accesing the Beneficiary’s guide, please visit the following link:

http://oiimm.mimmcma.ro/

The draft of the new Applicant Guide General terms – Grant and strategic projects has been published

 On 31.10.2011, the Managing Authority for the Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development has published for public debate the new Applicant Guide – General Conditions for grant and strategic projects.

The consultative version of the guide is published for public debate until 30^th of November. Improvement suggestions can be sent at the following address ghid2011@fseromania.ro before the date mentioned above.

 The draft version of the guide is available here.

 Also, the MA published the updated calendar of the financing lines available for the end of 2011. The calendar can be found here.

To stay informed with the latest news regarding calls for prosals within SOPHRD please visit www.vapro.ro, or contact us to arrange a meeting with one of our consultants.

VAPRO Romania

SMEs (companies with a turnover of up to 50 million Euros and less than 250 employees at group level) may receive EU grants as follows:

• Up to 250,000 Euros for investments in increasing, expansion or modernization of production capacity through the construction of production halls and acquisition of technologies and equipments.
  Call launch: October 2011
  Evaluation type: submittal within deadline, 90 days from launch date, based on quality criteria
• Up to 40,000 Euros for purchase of consultancy services for business development (marketing, human resources, manufacturing, business development).
  Call launch:: November 2011
  Evaluation type: continuous submittal
• Up to 200,000 Euros for implementation and extension of ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning or CRM – Customer Relationship Management systems
  Call launch: call launched on 5^th of October 2011, until 30^th of March 2012
  Evaluation type: continuous submittal, first come – first served criteria
• Up to 440,000 Euros for the development of electronic commerce and other on-line business solutions.
  Call launch: October 2011
  Evaluation type: continuous submittal
• Up to 200,000 Euros for participation in international fairs and exhibitions organized in Romania or abroad, participation in trade missions abroad, online promotion, development / improvement of presentation web-sites, development and production of printed promotional materials
  Call launch: call open in 26^th of August 2011,  until 26^th of November 2011
  Evaluation type: submittal within deadline

Large companies (with a turnover of more than 50 million Euros and over 250 employees at group level) and SMEs can receive grants from the government through the state aid scheme as follows:

• Up to 50% of the total initial investment over 5,000,000 Euros