By: Marie Sýkora Horňáková
December 15, 2023 7 min read
These are calls from the Operational Programme Technology and Applications for Competitiveness, the Operational Programme Environment and the National Environment Programme. For this reason, the range of supported activities will be truly diverse. Support will go towards innovation, research, energy savings or reducing energy intensity. More detailed information will be added as calls are announced.
Innovation vouchers: Buy consulting, expert and support services
A grant opportunity for small and medium-sized enterprises to purchase consultancy, expert and support services in the field of innovation. At the beginning of January, applications will be accepted in a call specifically focused on securing the protection of industrial property. The general call for Innovation Vouchers will follow in February.
Innovation vouchers
Innovation vouchers – protection of industrial property rights
Application: Get your research and development off the ground
Carry out industrial research and experimental development in your company. Gain new knowledge to develop new products, materials, technologies and services. During the first quarter of 2024, small and medium enterprises will be offered grant opportunities from the Applications Programme. Large companies will also be eligible to apply for the subsidy, subject to effective cooperation with SMEs. Research organisations will be able to act as partners.
Innovation: Embark on product and process innovations
Increase the technical and utility value of the products, technologies and services your company produces. Improve the efficiency of your production process and provision of services. The grant call for small and medium-sized enterprises for product and process innovation will open in the first quarter of 2024.
Energy savings: Reduce energy consumption
Reduce the amount of energy used in your business with a subsidy. The Energy Savings Programme will open a call for small, medium and large companies to finance projects leading to savings in final energy consumption. Embark on thermal insulation of the building, replacing windows and doors, replacing machinery and technology, installing photovoltaicand solar panels, upgrading electricity cabling or gas piping, introducing more efficient lighting, installing green roofs and purchasing heat pumps.
Renewable energy sources: Install a wind power plant
Small and medium-sized companies will again be able to apply for subsidies for the construction of wind power plants after the new year. Unless there are significant changes compared to the previous call, the amount of support can be expected to again depend on the size of the company and the region of implementation.
Increase the energy efficiency of your catering establishments
New subsidy calls from the Operational Programme Environment (OP Environment) targeting in particular the improvement of energy efficiency and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Obtain a subsidy of 50% to reduce energy consumption and increase energy efficiency in catering, laundry and other technological facilities in public buildings and infrastructure. In the case of catering establishments, this may include, for example, establishments in educational, social and medical institutions. A wide range of applicants will be able to apply for the subsidy, from regions and municipalities to research organisations and commercial companies.
Create an energy community
Grant opportunity from the National Environment Programme not only for housing associations, housing cooperatives, local self-government units and legal entities. Projects dedicated to activities leading to the establishment of an energy community will be supported. More specifically, these may include the preparation of the necessary technical, economic and legal background materials (e.g. a technical and economic feasibility study, an analysis of the ownership structure, or a plan for members’ participation in the community).
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