Within the project: „Greek Bulgarian Business Partnership by Assistance, Services, Solutions to Promote Open Regions Team” with acronym „GR-BG BUSINESS PASSPORT“, Subsidy contract № B6.3a.07/13.04.2021, financed under the Cooperation Programme “Interreg V –A Greece-Bulgaria” 2014-2020 the 14th issue of the e-newsletter “Development and opportunities for business in Haskovo region” was published.
In this issue, you can read about NSI’s forecasts for the demographic processes in Haskovo Region, as well as for the EU’s cohesion policy in the period 2021-2027. You can also view information on the preparation of a draft Law on the Management and Implementation of the National Plan about recovery and resilience and how you can get involved in that process. In the current issue, we have also presented an analysis of the Institute for Market Economics, from which it is clear that there is an increasingly high digitization in our country, but the administration continues to increase.
With regard to current and upcoming financing opportunities suitable for your activity, in this issue we have presented:
- Upcoming procedure under the new Program for Business in Bulgaria for the period 2021-2027 – Program “Competitiveness and Innovation in Enterprises”.The indicative start of receiving project proposals under the “Development of Innovations in Enterprises” Procedure is expected for the middle of June, 2023;
- BG-RRP-4.021 – Support for energy renovation of buildings in the sphere of production, trade and services, more details can be found on page 9 of the bulletin. The procedure has a deadline of June 15;
- application opportunities under some measures within the framework of the Program for the Development of Rural Areas in the municipalities of Lyubimets, Ivaylovgrad and Stambolovo, as well as information on other current and upcoming application procedures;
In this issue we have also presented opportunities to participate in upcoming events and trainings, which you will find more information about on page 18.
Within the framework of GR-BG BUSINESS PASSPORT project, the Institute of Robotics at the BAS has developed courses whose purpose is to inform the representatives of the small and family businesses in the Haskovo region about the application of robots in business, about the robotic technologies available on the market and the possibilities for their purchase /hiring and deployment. You can find the courses at the link: http://ir.bas.bg/projects/registration.html after entering the place of employment.