WOMAN IN TECH
OLD VERSION
max. 200.000 lei
FUNDING
Maximum 200,000 lei/beneficiary, an amount that can represent a maximum of 95% of the value of eligible expenses
ELIGIBLE BENEFICIARIES
To be women;
To be founders or co-founders of deep tech start-ups (deep technologies) in the early stages of development (early stage);
To hold top positions in the respective companies: CEO (general manager), CTO (technical director) or equivalent;
The start-up must be registered and established for at least 6 months, on the date of submission, in one of the EU Member States (including Romania) or the associated states in the Horizon EuropeSearch program (including the Republic of Moldova).
OBLIGATIONS
The investment must be maintained in Romania;
Acquired assets must be new;
Nothing is sold.
Updating the business model;
Updating and strengthening the business plan and growth strategy;
Validating the business model;
Certifications;
IP strategy and freedom to operate;
Commercial plan;
Market analysis;
Customer validation;
Technical/clinical evaluation;
Finding partners and investors.
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FINANCING
Non-Repayable Financial Allocation (AFN) – maximum 200,000 lei/beneficiary, an amount that can represent a maximum of 95% of the eligible expenses (including VAT for non-taxable companies) related to the project.
ELIGIBLE BENEFICIARIES
Companies (micro-enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises) that cumulatively meet the following eligibility criteria at the time of completing the registration form (Annex 1) and throughout the validity period of the funding agreement:
a) are registered in accordance with Law no. 31/1990 on companies, republished, with subsequent amendments and completions, or based on Law no. 1/2005 on the organization and functioning of cooperatives or based on Emergency Ordinance of the Government of Romania no. 6/2011 for the stimulation of the establishment and development of micro-enterprises by business start-ups, with subsequent amendments and completions;
b) are SMEs, according to the provisions of art. 2 and art. 4 para. (1) lit. a), b) or c) of Law no. 346/2004 on the stimulation of the establishment and development of small and medium-sized enterprises, with subsequent amendments and completions, which transpose into national law Recommendation EC no. 361 of 6 May 2003, published in the Official Journal of the EU no. L124 of 20 May 2003 (having up to 249 employees and achieving an annual net turnover of up to 50 million euros or holding total assets of up to 43 million euros, equivalent in lei).
c) are considered autonomous, related, partners enterprises;
d) have entirely private share capital;
e) individuals who are associates/shareholders or administrators in multiple companies cannot apply under this Program except with a single company;
f) are registered with the Trade Registry Office, have their registered office/branch and carry out their activity in Romania;
g) the CAEN Rev. 2 code for which funding is requested is eligible under the Program (Annex 1) and authorized until the moment of reimbursement payment, in accordance with art. 15 of Law 359/2004 on the simplification of formalities for the registration of individuals, family associations and legal entities in the Trade Register, their tax registration, as well as the authorization of legal entities, with subsequent amendments and completions. Funding request is made for a single CAEN code;
h) At least one of the associates must be a woman and hold at least 50% of the social shares/shares of the company in the case of applying SMEs. For companies established under Law no. 1/2005 on the organization and functioning of cooperatives, the condition is considered fulfilled if the majority of cooperative members in the Board of Directors are women.
i) do not have debts to the consolidated general budget, both for the registered office and for all workplaces, at the time of administrative and eligibility verification; Applicants with rescheduled debts are not eligible to access the Program.
j) (1) Have not exceeded the de minimis threshold of 200,000 euros over a period of three consecutive financial years for a single enterprise, as defined by Commission Regulation (EU) No. 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to de minimis aid, with subsequent amendments and completions, and of 100,000 euros over a period of three financial years for beneficiaries carrying out freight transport activities on behalf of third parties or for hire. The thresholds apply regardless of the form of de minimis aid or the objective pursued and regardless of whether the aid is granted from state budget funds or from community funds.
(2) In the event that, by granting new de minimis aid, the maximum threshold mentioned in point j paragraph (1) would be exceeded, the enterprise may benefit, if requested, from the provisions of this de minimis aid scheme only for that fraction of aid which, combined with the rest of the de minimis aid received previously, does not exceed this threshold.
(3) In the case of mergers or acquisitions, when determining whether new de minimis aid granted to a new enterprise or to the enterprise acquiring it exceeds the relevant threshold, all previous de minimis aid granted to all merging enterprises is taken into account. De minimis aid granted legally before the merger or acquisition remains legally granted.
(4) In the event that an enterprise is split into two or more separate enterprises, de minimis aid granted before the split is allocated to the enterprise that benefited from it, namely, in principle, to the enterprise that takes over the activities for which the de minimis aid was used. If such allocation is not possible, de minimis aid is allocated proportionally based on the book value of the share capital of the new enterprises as of the date the split takes effect.
(5) De minimis aid granted under this measure may be combined with de minimis aid granted in accordance with Commission Regulation (EU) No. 360/2012, up to the ceiling established in that regulation.
(6) De minimis aid may be cumulated with de minimis aid granted in accordance with other de minimis regulations up to the limit of 200,000 euros (100,000 euros for enterprises engaged in road freight transport on behalf of third parties or for hire) equivalent in lei.
(7) For mergers and/or acquisitions that change the control status, if the value thresholds provided for in Article 12 of Competition Law no. 21/1996 republished, with subsequent amendments and completions, are exceeded, they shall be notified to the Competition Council, and the implementation of the concentration transaction shall be possible only after obtaining an authorization decision from the competition authority.
(8) The aspect may also concern the aforementioned splitting transactions, if the resulting assets and/or enterprise with full operation exceed the value thresholds provided by Competition Law.
(9) De minimis aid does not cumulate with state aid granted for the same eligible costs or with state aid granted for the same financing measure through venture capital if such cumulation would exceed the intensity or maximum value of aid set for the specific conditions of each case by a regulation or an exemption decision adopted by the Commission.
(10) De minimis aid not granted for or linked to specific eligible costs may be cumulated with other state aid granted under a block exemption regulation or a decision adopted by the Commission.
k) are not in a state of dissolution, judicial reorganization, liquidation, forced execution, operational closure, insolvency, bankruptcy or temporary suspension of activity;
l) have not been subject to a decision issued by the European Commission / AIMMAIPE / another provider of state aid/Competition Council, for the recovery of state/de minimis aid or, if they have been subject to such a decision, it has already been executed and the entire claim has been recovered, with related penalties;
m) (1) create at least one full-time job, indefinitely after the entry into force of the non-repayable financial aid (AFN) agreement and maintain the job occupied for at least 2 years from the date of payment of the non-repayable financial aid;
(2) In the event that the job/jobs created under the scheme become vacant for various reasons or are suspended after their creation under the scheme, the beneficiary has a maximum of 45 days to fill the vacant job/jobs, maintaining the number and conditions for which funding was received;
n) Ensure a co-financing of at least 5% of the eligible project value, under the penalty of not granting the AFN.
TYPES OF FINANCIAL AID
(1) The Program finances funding applications completed through the registration form (Annex 1), in descending order of the scores obtained, under the following conditions:
a) For applicants who undertake to create and maintain a single job through the Program:
– Non-Repayable Financial Allocation (AFN) – maximum 100,000 lei/beneficiary, an amount that can represent a maximum of 95% of the eligible expenses (including VAT for non-taxable companies) related to the project;
b) For applicants who undertake to create and maintain two jobs through the Program:
– Non-Reimbursable Financial Allocation (AFN) – maximum 200,000 lei per beneficiary, a sum that can represent a maximum of 95% of the eligible expenses (including VAT for non-paying companies) related to the project;
(2) The object of the financing must fall into one or more of the following eligible categories:
a) (1) Technological equipment, excluding mechanical, electrical, electronic gambling devices, billiard tables, jukeboxes. Technological equipment, according to the scoring grid, encompasses all tangible assets from the category of fixed assets described in groups 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 of Government Decision no. 2139/2004 for the approval of the Catalog regarding the classification and normal operating lives of fixed assets, except those specified by this implementation procedure.
(2) Tangible assets from the category of fixed assets for playgrounds, sports halls, fitness, drones, x-body, and strength equipment, equipment, and specific systems for achieving energy savings, systems using renewable energy sources to streamline the activities for which funding is requested, as well as 100% electric vehicles are assimilated in the category of eligible technological equipment.
(3) The acquisition of systems, installations, and equipment specifically aimed at achieving energy savings, systems using renewable energy sources to streamline the activities for which funding is requested, as well as 100% electric vehicles is considered to meet the sustainable development scoring criterion if the total eligible expenses in this category are at least 5% of the AFN value.
(4) Examples of equipment, and specific systems aimed at achieving energy savings, systems using renewable energy sources to streamline the activities for which funding is requested, as well as 100% electric vehicles are: cars, buses, minibuses, bicycles, mopeds, motorcycles, karts, UTVs, ATVs, scooters, 100% electric vehicles, as well as the associated charging stations, heat pumps, mini-wind turbines, air compressors, photovoltaic panels and/or systems, solar panels, waste sorting-recycling stations, etc.
(5) Renewable energy or “renewable energy” means energy from non-fossil renewable sources, namely wind energy, solar (thermal and photovoltaic solar) energy, geothermal energy, ambient energy, wave energy, hydroelectric energy, biomass, landfill gas, gas from wastewater treatment plants, and biogas;
(6) Means of transport as specified in Article 4.3.1 lit. c) or subassemblies for these means of transport, with the exception of 100% electric vehicles, and expenses mentioned in Article 4.3.1 lit. f.), are not assimilated into technological equipment.
(7) For activities related to CAEN Rev 2 codes 6201, 6202, 6203, 6209, 6311, 6312, 6910, 6920, 7111, 7112, 7410, the hardware equipment exceeding the minimum value of the mandatory digital package is part of the technological equipment category, classified in groups 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 of Government Decision no. 2139/2004 for the approval of the Catalog regarding the classification and normal operating lives of fixed assets.
b) (1) Acquisition of workspaces, production spaces, and spaces for service and trade provision. The value of the asset to be acquired under the Program will be based on an assessment by an ANEVAR expert evaluator, except for mobile workspaces/production/service/trade spaces.
(2) Assets in this category must not have residential destination both at the time of acquisition and throughout the implementation period of the Program.
(3) Mobile workspaces/production/service/trade spaces include event organizing tents and pressure balloons. ANEVAR report is not required for mobile workspaces/production/service/trade spaces.
c) (1) Means of transportation, other than those provided for in Article 4.3.1, lit. a), para. (4): cars, buses, minibuses, bicycles, mopeds, motorcycles, karts, UTVs, ATVs, motorized or non-motorized trailers and semi-trailers, platforms, insulated and refrigerated vans, floating docks, maritime passenger boats, recreational boats, aircraft, utility vehicles, and vehicles with special purpose, with the exception of all G symbol vehicles, according to Order MLPTL 211/2003 with subsequent amendments and completions. 100% electric vehicles will be assimilated to the equipment provided for in 4.3.1 lit. a). Freight road transport vehicles requested by companies carrying out freight transport services on behalf of third parties or for a fee are not financed.
(2) For car rental activities, driving schools, piloting, and taxi services, there is no maximum value and number of cars purchased.
(3) Except for the activities provided for in para. (2), cars are eligible for all Program activities in an eligible amount of maximum 50,000 lei (except for 100% electric ones) and maximum 1 car/beneficiary.
(4) If the beneficiary enterprise of de minimis aid, in addition to the eligible activity for which it requests aid under the de minimis scheme, also carries out freight transport activities on behalf of third parties or for a fee, it cannot use the de minimis aid for the acquisition of freight transport vehicles unless it ensures, through the separation of activities or a clear distinction between costs, that the activity excluded from the scope of the scheme does not benefit from de minimis aid;
d) Purchase of furniture, office equipment, and human and material value protection systems, according to group no. 3 of Government Decision 2139/2004;
e) (1) Salaries, utilities (electricity, water, gas, sanitation, telephone, and internet subscriptions), accounting services, and expenses related to rents for workspaces, production spaces, or service and trade spaces;
(2) For applicants who undertake to create and maintain a single job through the Program, the value of these expenses (salaries, utilities, accounting services, and rents) represents a lump sum of maximum 30,000 lei from the eligible expenses approved following the verification of the funding application, or from the approved reimbursement amount. Reimbursement is based on the beneficiary’s request accompanied by documents attesting the creation of at least 1 job;
(3) For applicants who undertake to create and maintain two jobs through the Program, the value of these expenses (salaries, utilities, accounting services, and rents) represents a lump sum of maximum 60,000 lei from the eligible expenses approved following the verification of the funding application, or from the approved reimbursement amount. Reimbursement is based on the beneficiary’s request accompanied by documents attesting the creation of at least 2 jobs;
f) (1) Digital package (digitization voucher), which may include one or more of the following eligible expenses: activity presentation website, online store, domain registration expenses without hosting, website/online store promotion expenses, software/software necessary for conducting business, electronic signature, IT equipment, PC-type computing equipment, central unit, server, monitor, printer/copier/multifunctional device, including portable systems, licenses necessary for conducting business, smartphones, tablets.
(2) The digital package (digitization voucher) represents a mandatory expense within the Program, under the penalty of rejection for funding, and has a minimum value of 25,000 lei from the total eligible expenses.
(3) The expense for electronic signature is eligible even before signing the financing agreement. g) Intensive entrepreneurial skills development courses held in Romania or in another member country of the European Union – for the associate/shareholder/manager/employees of the applicant company, in an eligible amount of maximum 5,000 lei/person;
h) Value Added Tax (VAT) not deductible for non-VAT-paying applicants according to the Fiscal Code;
i) Consultancy for preparing documentation for obtaining financing under this Program and for project implementation, in an eligible amount of maximum 10,000 lei; This activity can be carried out before signing the financing agreement. Eligible consultancy service providers under the Program can only be consultancy organizations entitled to carry out this type of activity legally, meaning they have consultancy activity in their status or are enterprises authorized to carry out one of the activities included in CAEN-Rev2 division 70. Companies providing consultancy services under the Program cannot be providers for other eligible expenses under the program. j) Two mandatory informative plaques, under the penalty of not granting AFN, in the minimum value of 10 lei, but not more than 500 lei from the value of eligible expenses, which will be placed as follows:
– one inside the space at the project implementation location (indoor), in the place with the best visibility for visitors (reception, secretariat, waiting area, etc.);
– one outside the space at the project implementation location (outdoor), in the place with the best visibility for clients, next to the space where the activity takes place (street facade, building entrance, etc.).
k) Financial expenses related to loans/guarantees obtained for loans contracted by beneficiaries for the implementation of projects accepted under the Program, for applicants using credit for project implementation.
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WOMAN IN TECH CONSULTANCY
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
- for accessing financial allocations through various programs;;
- road and bridge technician;
- civil construction technician;
- water management technique;
- technical construction works;;
- procurement file or estimates needed to access non-refundable funds through special programs that are ongoing.
CONSULTANCY
Our consulting services give you the chance to implement your construction, production or service projects with your own funds or with the help of non-reimbursable financial allocations.
We offer you the necessary advice to access the non-reimbursable funds through the special programs that are in progress.
We are ready to guide and support you so that your ideas come true!
PROJECTION
Our field of activity refers to Engineering and Technical Consulting services related to them
This class includes:
Design engineering as well as consulting activities for:
- projects involving civil engineering, hydraulic engineering, traffic engineering;
- water management projects;
- geophysical, geological and seismic, topography;
- geodetic and topographic activities.