Amendment of Calls for Actions for State Entrepreneurship Support for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) regarding the deadline for submitting a final verification-certification request

Published the Decision to amend Calls for State Entrepreneurship Support Actions Small and medium Enterprises SMEs within the framework of EPANEK (A/A 1 to 6) and the P.E.P. Attica, South Aegean, Western Macedonia, Ionian Islands, Peloponnese, Northern Aegean, Crete, Central Greece, Central Macedonia, Thessaly, Eastern Macedonia-Thrace, Western Greece (A/A 6), by ESPA 2014-2020, according to which for all projects with a deadline for submitting a final verification – certification request from 1.1.2024 to 01.04.2024, the date for submitting a final verification – certification request is extended to electronic and print, accompanied by the required supporting documents and deliverables, until 30.04.2024 at the latest.

The Actions that are modified are the following:

• Upgrading micro & small businesses to develop their capabilities in new markets
  • The program aims to improve the quality of the offered products and services or to create new products/services that will meet specific market needs. Also, investment plans may aim to reduce costs or increase the efficiency of operational and production processes
• Strengthening Tourism Media for their modernization and the quality upgrade of the services provided

  • The program aims to strengthen the investment plans of existing very small, small and medium tourism businesses of all sectors for the modernization of their infrastructure and operation, their quality upgrade and the enrichment, upgrading and certification of the products and services offered, in order to improve their position in the domestic and international tourism market

  • Small and Very Small Business Competitiveness Toolkit

    • The Action “Competitiveness Toolkit for Small and Very Small Enterprises” aims to strengthen existing small and very small businesses, in order to upgrade and improve their competitive position in the internal and external market, investing in the modernization of their production equipment and the certification of their products
• Qualitative Modernization
  • The “Quality Modernization” Action aims to improve the competitiveness of medium-sized enterprises, investing in their productive modernization and the adoption of standardization & certification systems
• Entrepreneurship Toolkit: Trade, Focus, Education

  • The Action “Entrepreneurship Toolbox: Trade-Focus-Education” aims to strengthen existing SMEs that are active:- in retail
    – in the provision of services focus
    – the provision of private education– social care services in order to upgrade their level of business organization and operation

• Strengthening the Establishment and Operation of New Tourism Small and Medium Enterprises
  • The Action aims to strengthen entrepreneurship in the field of Tourism, through the creation of new micro, small and medium tourism businesses

See the relevant Decision here.