You export or wish to enter new markets
02.03.2010
Passport to export.
For what: entering new markets and strengthening the competitive position of enterprises in foreign markets, projects that help to increase the share of foreign markets sales in enterprises’ general sales and projects promoting Polish brands in foreign markets.
Applications for financing are submitted in two stages:
Stage I is the assessment of the entrepreneur’s eligibility for the Measure and his export potential and counselling services in terms of:
- Analysing the competitive position of the enterprise in target markets
- Indicating target markets for export activity
- Choosing at least 2 actions to be realised by the entrepreneur in order to enter the selected markets
- Analysing competitiveness in terms of products and services
- Describing current enterprise condition in key areas of operating and forecasting about operation expansion, especially in terms of export
- SWOT analyses for the export of each kind of product/service in every target market
- Describing aims and the export strategy, and others
Stage II is the implementation of the export expansion plan prepared in stage I and the selection of at least two of the following instruments that are to help realise the strategy defined in the plan:
- Participation in foreign fairs and exhibitions as an exhibitor
- Organisation and participation in foreign business missions
- Searching for and choice of partners in target markets
- Obtaining documents necessary for the introduction of the entrepreneur’s goods or services to selected target markets
- Counselling in terms of financing strategy for export undertakings and export activit
- yCounselling in terms of devising a concept of the entrepreneur's image in selected target markets
For whom: micro, small land medium enterprises (share of export in total sales in the previous turnover Lear must not exceed 30%).
When: next application calls will be announced in 2010
Intensity of support: 80% of eligible costs in terms of counselling services at stage I and 50% of eligible costs in terms of selected instruments at stage II.
Amount of support: financing at stage I must not exceed PLN 10,000, and at stage II – PLN 200,000 (one subsidy per one entrepreneur during the realisation of the Measure).
Operational Programme Innovative Economy 2007–2013 is aimed at supporting broadly understood innovativeness. Intervention under OP IE will cover both direct support for enterprises, business-surrounding institutions and scientific entities offering high quality services to enterprises and systemic support ensuring the development of the institutional environment of innovative enterprises. Support under OP IE is granted regardless of the sector it is related to (bearing in mind the limitations resulting from the allowable scope of intervention of the ERDF and regulations on public aid). Because of that it complements the actions provided for in 16 Regional Operational Programmes and other national programmes included in the National Cohesion Strategy