PROGRAMMES OF SUPPORT FOR THE PERIOD 2014-2020 AND THEIR FOCUS

Industrial development

Programme Potential :

• Setting up or development of industrial research centres, including acquisition of lands, buildings, equipment of centres.

Industrial research

Programme Application:

• Implementation of industrial research and experimental development focused on the creation of world-wide competitive products.

Cooperation with research organisation

Programme Innovative vouchers:

• Purchase of expert services in the sphere of innovations.
• Supportive activity of business and innovative centres and science and technological parks.

Programme Partnership of knowledge transfer:

• Development of partnership between small/medium enterprises and organisations for research and dissemination of knowledge for the purpose of transfer of knowledge and technologies.

Programme Cooperation :

• Support and development of clusters, technological platforms and cooperation innovative networks based on cooperation of small and medium enterprises.

Research facility operation

Programme Services of infrastructure:

• Support for the operation of science and technological parks, incubators, innovative centres and provision of consultancy services to innovation enterprises via such centres.

Innovative projects

Programme Innovation :

• Projects focused on innovation of products and protection of industrial property rights. It includes acquisition of innovative technologies, including intangible assets.

Start-ups

Programme Progress:

• Implementation of business plans of new and developing firms. The support is aimed at acquisition of machines and equipment, acquisition or reconstruction of buildings, securing working capital for starting up or extension of business activity.

Purchase of machines

Programme Technologies:

• Support for increasing the number of implemented new business plans of new entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises.
• Purchase of machines and equipment, including software  and patent licences.

Programme Marketing:

• Services for SMEs facilitating the entry to foreign markets (participation in international exhibitions and trade fairs, organising seminars and events focused on specific issues concerning international competitiveness, etc.).

Programme Real estates:

• Modernisation of production operations and reconstruction of the existing obsolete infrastructure, reconstruction of brownfields.

Programme ICT and shared services:

• Creation of new sophisticated ICT solutions (e.g. in the sphere of communication, entertainment, trading, education, health care, access to employment, or in the sphere of cultural and creative industries).
• Setting up and operation of shared services centres.
• Building and modernisation of data centres.

Programme Renewable energy sources:

• Construction, reconstruction, modernisation of small hydroelectric power stations.
• Taking heat out of the existing biogas stations by means of thermal distribution facilities to the place of consumption.
• Installation of cogeneration units.
• Construction and reconstruction of heat sources and combined power and heat production from biomass and taking heat out.

Programme Energy savings:

• Modernisation  and reconstruction of distribution mechanisms for electricity, gas and heat in production plant buildings.
• Modernisation, reconstruction and reduction of losses in electricity and heat distribution mechanisms of buildings and production plants.
• Implementation  of measures aimed at reduction of energy performance of buildings.
• Utilisation of waste energy in production processes.
• Installation of renewable energy sources for own consumption of an enterprise.
• Reduction of energy performance and increasing energy efficiency of production and technological processes.
• Installation of cogeneration units for own consumption of an enterprise.

Programme Low-carbon technologies:

• Introducing innovative technologies for low-carbon transport (electro mobility of road vehicles).
• Pilot projects of introducing energy accumulation technologies.
• Introducing low-carbon technologies in buildings.
• Introducing innovative technologies in the production of energy from renewable sources.
• Introducing off grid systems (energy consumption management system).
• Introducing technologies for obtaining scrap materials in the quality suitable for further use in the industrial production.
• Introducing technologies for the production of innovative products made of scrap materials.

Programme Smart grids I.:

• Placing of automated, remote-controlled elements in distribution systems, placing of technological elements of voltage control, and selective placing of measurement of electric energy quality in distribution systems.
• Solution of local balance by managing output flows between customers and the distribution grid operator.

Programme Smart grids II. :

• Construction, strengthening, modernisation and reconstruction of transmission system lines and transformer stations (in accordance with the concept of smart grids).

Programme Energy savings in heat supply systems:

• Installation of high-efficient (gas) cogeneration units in heat supply systems.
• Installation of a high-efficient (gas) cogeneration unit for the purpose of local consumption of heat energy.
• Reconstruction of the existing facilities with combined power and heat production in order to achieve savings of primary energy thanks to improvement of technical parameters of facilities.

Programme High-speed Internet:

• Modernisation and extension of the existing infrastructure of the high-speed Internet connection, with the minimal transmission speed of 30 Mbit/s.

Programme Consultancy I. :

• Consultancy services through external advisors for new firms in the sphere of production, construction, trade and services in order to support an increase in the number of new entrepreneurs and enhance competitiveness of new SMEs in economically problematic regions.

Programme Consultancy II. :

• Sophisticated consultancy services for SMEs for support of SME internationalisation (involvement in international programmes of the type of HORIZONT 2020, COSME) and in the sphere of strategic management and innovation management (mentoring, coaching, foresight, etc.).

Programme Venture capital:

• Capital investments in projects focused on establishment and development of enterprises with the innovation potential asking for seed, start-up, expansion or replacement capital.

Programme Training centres:

• Construction and acquisition of new or reconstruction of the existing training centres, modernisation of premises for training, acquisition of facilities for training premises, including training aids, training programmes and intellectual property rights

Staff training:

• Creation and implementation  of company training programmes, including preparation of company lecturers and instructors.
• Consultancy for the creation and implementation of modern human resources management and development systems in enterprises.
• Grouping of small and medium enterprises for the purpose of training (for example, in the form of training clusters).
• Consultancy and information activities, training and requalification programmes for employees of enterprises undergoing restructuring or finishing their activity, including employees being dismissed.
• Introducing age management (management with regard to age, abilities and potential of employees) into enterprises.
• Work experience and internships in enterprises.
• Cooperation of enterprises and training institutions for adjustment of human resources qualifications to labour market requirements.

Reduction of differences in position of men and women on the labour market:

• Introducing flexible forms of work.
• Development of services of care for children.

Subsidy for:

• Creation and development of business activities in the sphere of social business activity.
• Introduction of training programmes, education and consultancy related to the support of establishment, foundation, operation and marketing of a social enterprise.

Emission reduction:

• Complex or partial replacement or reconstruction of the existing stationary sources of pollution, acquisition of additional technologies to reduce emissions from pollutants.

Avoiding originating of industrial waste:

• Implementation or modernisation of technologies the output of which will be a lower quantity of produced waste per unit of product.

Use of waste:

• Construction and modernisation  of facilities for material and energy use of waste and the related infrastructure.
• Construction and modernisation of equipment for hazardous waste dealing.
• Supplementing systems of separated waste collection, storing, and handling.
• Technologies for processing construction elements from insulating systems.
• Construction of biogas stations for bio waste processing.
• Reconstruction of facilities for waste co-combustion, and others.

Removal of ecological burdens:

• Reclamation of old waste dumps and removal of ecological burdens.

Reduction of environmental risk:

• Reconstruction of hazardous substance warehouses.
• Measures to increase safety in operations with hazardous chemical substances.
• Information systems for serious breakdown prevention.