📋 Tender Overview
Last Friday, June 9, the 6th public tender was published for measure 16 Cooperation from the Rural Development Program 2014-2020, for the implementation of pilot projects for sub-measure 16.2 - Support for pilot projects and for the development of new products, practices, processes and technologies.
The public tender is intended for pilot projects that refer to the search for solutions to the actual problem of agricultural holdings in the field of developing new or improved products, practices, processes or technology in the field of agriculture. Pilot projects are short-term, small-scale experiments carried out with the aim of evaluating the feasibility, time, costs, potential problems and effects of a project. In this way, they help to understand how a larger-scale project would work in practice.
Key conditions when submitting an application to a public tender
A partnership established on the basis of a mutual cooperation agreement, consisting of at least two members: the agricultural economy and
a legal entity that carries out educational activities in accordance with the law governing the organization and financing of education and training, the law governing higher professional education, or the law governing higher education, in the field of agriculture or
a legal entity or a self-employed person who is registered to carry out consulting activities in the field of agriculture or
a natural person who is registered in the register of private researchers in accordance with the regulation governing the register of private researchers;
a project in which the partnership defines the intended goals, results, activities and costs;
pilot projects last 12 months from the date of issuance of the decision on the allocation of funds;
the level of public support is up to 100 percent of the value of eligible project costs, except for the costs of purchasing new equipment, machines, including laboratory technology, software costs, obtaining patents and licenses, where public support amounts to 75 percent of eligible costs;
the amount of support ranges from 5,000 to a maximum of 75,000 euros.
Application process
The procedure for the allocation of funds is presented in more detail in the public tender itself. It is a closed type of public tender, which means that funds are allocated only to the best-rated complete applications that reach the entry threshold of 50 percent of all possible points and at least 60 percent of possible points for the Project Quality criterion . Those applications that achieve a higher number of points according to the application evaluation criteria will be selected until the tendered funds are used up.
The start of entering an application to the public tender and the closing of the public tender
Submission of an application to the public tender takes place from July 3, 2023 to and including September 20, 2023, until 2 p.m.
