EU4Business has announced a competition for grant support for Ukrainian small and medium-sized enterprises from areas of hostilities. Within the scope of the project, 10 companies will receive grants of 10,000 euros for business development.
For whom?
Apply if your company:
registered in the following regions of Ukraine: Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhya, Donetsk, Luhansk, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Kirovohrad and Kyiv regions (the city of Kyiv does not participate);
is not located and does not conduct its economic activity in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine;
ultimate beneficial owners are exclusively citizens of Ukraine;
the company does not operate or has subsidiaries in the Russian Federation and/or Belarus and other countries included in the sanctions list;
has the potential for rapid expansion of production, contributing to the normalization of the local economies in which they operate;
did not receive grants from GIZ or other international organizations or international technical assistance projects during the last 24 months;
carries out activities in the following directions: suppliers and/or manufacturers of food products;
industries that support food manufacturers/suppliers, such as the manufacture of industrial refrigeration or ventilation systems, the manufacture of food and beverage machinery or equipment;
the number of employees ranges from 11 to 249 at the time of application.
Important: only one application can be submitted per enterprise (affiliated companies cannot submit applications).
How to participate?
You can get acquainted with the details and criteria of the competition at the link. Application deadline: April 9, 2023 23:59 inclusive. The results of the competitive selection are expected to be announced by the end of May 2023.
For reference:
10 grants of 10,000 euros to support Ukrainian entrepreneurship became available within the framework of the international cooperation program “EU4Business: competitiveness and internationalization of SMEs”, which is co-financed by the European Union and the Government of Germany and implemented by the German federal company GIZ together with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, the Ukrainian portal of public services online Diya, by the Ukrainian state institution “Office for the Development of Entrepreneurship and Export” and the Ukrainian national project for the development of entrepreneurship and export Diya.Business.
The implementing partner of the initiative is the Ukrainian Startup Fund.
