Enter Koprivnica, in cooperation with Impuls Consulting organized workshop and education on March 11th in Incubator of Creative Industries. Education covered topics related to funding opportunities from national and EU funds.

The possibilities of co-financing SMEs primarly through a presentation on the upcoming calls in 2021 were presented. Focus was on call "Building and equipping the production capacity of SMEs" which is expected to be announced in May and through which will be possible to co-finance the construction / upgrade and / or equipping of business premises and production halls, as well as digitalization of business processes. The call will be reserved for SMEs with a budget of around HRK 1.5 bilion and a grant up to HRK 15 milion.

Workshop included funding opportunities for SMEs in the ICT sector and non-refundable co-financing of international cooperation projects through the Eurostars program. At the same time, the possibility of the using tax relif and profit tax reduction based on the research and development project were presented. Workshop participants, presented their business ideas to the mentors and received advice which call is suitable to apply for, how to shape the idea and what to focus on. In the last part of the training, examples of successful practice were presented. The education and workshop were held by prof. dr. sc. Nedeljko Štefanić and mr.sc. Goran Becker. They were organized as part of Digital Information Hub services.

The project ECOS4IN is funded by the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Program and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.