The decision of the list and the ranking of the business plans of the first stage of the evaluation of the Action " Supporting the self-employment of graduates of Higher Education - 2nd cycle of the first submission period" has been announced.

Graduate Support - Second cycle - Results of the 1st period

The results were obtained after the process of completing the electronic submissions for the First period, based on the score they received in the objective evaluation criteria.

The 1st period had a Start of submissions 05.07.2017 and End 09.08.2017.

The decision shall include:

• Ranking, two thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight (2,728) submitted applications for funding with a total requested budget of 68,561,195.05 euros.
• Preparation of a Table of the potential beneficiaries of the Action who proceed to the Second stage of the evaluation, with 1,646 business plans. Total subsidized budget (public expenditure) of EUR 42,309,711.74 in absolute grading order, based on the total co-financed public expenditure to be allocated increased by 20%, per group of regions and per category of beneficiaries, in accordance with ANNEX I.
• Rejection of 1,082 business plans with a total requested budget of 26,251,483.31 euros. The rejection is due to exhaustion of the total co-financed public expenditure to be made available, due to scores, in accordance with ANNEX II.

It is noted that this decision does not concern a final decision to include / reject the business plans in the Action. Therefore, no objections are made to this one.

See more information about the action here.