23.09.2011
Government FDI Cost-Sharing Grant Scheme
Foreign companies making direct investments in Slovenia may apply for financial grants. The purpose of the Invitation for Applications is to boost attractiveness of Slovenia as a location for foreign direct investment by lowering entry (start-up) costs to the investors whose investment will have a positive impact on new employment, knowledge and technology transfer, facilitation of balanced regional development, and will foster alliances between foreign investors and Slovenian companies.
The Grant Scheme in place since 2000 aims at motivating and facilitating investment. It is in line with national and EU state aid legislation. The aim of these incentives is to lower the cost threshold for new entries into the manufacturing and service sectors that allows them to compete in international markets.
Public tender for applications under the FDI cost-sharing grant scheme for 2010-2011 is closed.
JAPTI is prepairing the public tender for 2012 that is expected to be published at the end of 2011.
Financial incentives for hiring and (re)training people
This category of co-financing is open to the companies duly incorporated in Slovenia for at least one year:
- Public tender to increase hiring the unemployed
- Public invitation to employers to carry out the programmes/schemes for on-the-job training - Usposabljanje na delovnem mestu - 2009/2011
- Public tender Absolvent – get started and get a job (training undergraduates – candidates for graduation at a workplace and subsidy for employing a candidate for graduation)
- Public tender for employing researchers when they take up a position in a company (No. II)
In addition, tenders are open in various areas (co-financing the purchase of new technological equipment in SME, direct co-financing for joint development and investment projects) subject to the condition that they have to operate in Slovenia for at least one year.
