The first step of an entrepreneur!
Entrepreneurship Voucher was created specifically thinking about the needs of start-ups, and their initial non-repayable financing.
The incentive can go up to a maximum of €15,000, and the eligible expenses of this incentive fall primarily in the following areas:
- Strategy Consulting
- Expenses regarding: project feasibility analysis, market studies, investment project, and others
- Protection of intellectual and industrial property rights
- Expenses regarding: trademark registration, patent registration, among others
- Digital Economy
- Expenses regarding: website development, technological platforms and other digital developments are included
Applying for this incentive may allow the start-up to benefit from specialized support by Dual Up Consulting, thus enabling access to other incentive systems with a much higher scale of support and financing.
Entrepreneurship Voucher Update for 2015
In the area of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship vouchers allow the financing of projects for the acquisition of consultancy services, which are essential for starting a business, namely the preparation of business plans.
In the case of the entrepreneurship voucher, applications take the form of an individual project that follows a simplified regime, specifically regarding selection criteria and decision deadlines.
Eligibility Criteria for Entrepreneurship Voucher 2015
- The application date must be prior to the date of contracting with the service provider;
- Prove that the funding sources are assured;
- Maximum of 12 months for the execution of the plan, except in duly justified cases;
- Does not correspond to a project in progress at the accredited entity;
- Clearly, objectively and practically identify the problem to be solved and demonstrate that the services to be acquired will contribute to its effective resolution;
- Demonstrate the incremental and non-recurring nature of the contracted activity;
- Correspond to an acquisition of the services from an entity registered as an accredited entity, and show that within the scope of the acquisition of the service, consultation was carried out with at least two of the entities accredited in the selected intervention domain, if any;
- Present a balanced economic and financial situation;
- Have completed the projects previously approved under this section for the same establishment as the company, except in the case of projects under the contractual investment regime;
- Not having closed the same activity, or a similar activity, in the European Economic Area in the two years preceding the application date or that, at the application date, has concrete plans to close this activity within a maximum period of two years after the completion of the project to support;
- Have a positive equity;
- The company must have less than two years of activity.
Eligible Expenses
- Consultancy services in the field of entrepreneurship;
- Business Plans
- Viability Studies
- Other Consulting Services Needed by Newly Established Businesses
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