February 18, 2022

• The Minister of Entrepreneurship and Tourism, Constantin Daniel Cadariu, announced on Wednesday that the proposed target for the start of the third edition of the Start-Up Nation program is April-May.
• He said what the news of the program will be.
  The Minister of Entrepreneurship and Tourism, Constantin Daniel Cadariu, says that the decision to continue the program was taken following the analysis of previous editions.

“In the first two editions, the final beneficiaries were about 15,000 companies. When we thought about a new stage, we did it by analyzing the efficiency of the first two stages. We found that, as a result of the two editions, over 45,000 were created. jobs, of which about 39,000 are students and young people. it was a successful program with two stages and we set out to re-edit it in a third edition “, said Cadariu.

According to him, the program could start in April-May: “Given that it will be run on a ministry platform managed by STS, given that STS is extremely busy now for PNRR emergencies, the proposed target for the start of the edition of the third is somewhere in April-May. “

The minister also said that there will be at least two or three new things in the program.

“One of them is that they will no longer score the number of jobs, because in too many cases, in the other editions, out of the desire of the economic agents to obtain a higher score, they opted for the maximum number of jobs. 6, and then the amount of 200,000 lei was largely spent on salaries. -10 maybe 15%, but at the same time we will ask for the support of the SME Guarantee Fund to ensure that part of the co-financing “, added the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Tourism.