Open Call for applications for start-up grants

2014-09-26

During the last two weeks ASB has organized 11 presentations of the Call for applications for start-up grants in the form of equipment, machines and tools which was attended by approximately 300 people. The presentations where organized in Kosovo in the folowing municipalities: Istok, Klina, Priština – Gračanica, Novo Brdo, Orahovac, Štrpce, Peć -Goraždevac, Kosovska Kamenica – Ranilug, Gnjilane i Uroševac.

During presentations representatives of ASB clarified to the participants the criteria and procedures of the Call. The Call is opened for the members of the minority groups and IDPs. The maximum value of grants for start-ups in the form of equipment, machinery and tools is 50,000 euro. Deadline for application is 14/10/2014. Participants were mostly interested for starting business activities in the field of agriculture and the cultivation and processing of fruits and vegetables. A few good business ideas were in the field of wood processing, the cheese dairy, the breeding cattle and freshwater fish.

This activity is being realized under the project „Support to sustainable return and reintegration of IDPs to Kosovo“, funded by the European Union and implemented by ASB. The aim of this Call is to promote socio-economic stability of Kosovo’s minority communities through economic empowerment as a way of providing support to returnee communities, which will contribute to improving the economic situation in the local environment.

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