Public call for mentoring for 100 newly founded and existing SMEs and clusters

This public call for the implementation of the mentoring program is implemented by the National Agency for Regional Development in cooperation with accredited regional development agencies and SME development centers in Subotica, Zrenjanin, Novi Sad, Ruma, Belgrade, Požarevac, Kragujevac, Kraljevo, Užice, Novi Pazar, Niš, Leskovac, Vranje, Zaječar, Kruševac, Lajkovac and Loznica.

Project goal

Free mentoring service for selected 100 entrepreneurs/business companies/clusters for 50 hours per client, until the end of November 2015.

What is mentoring?

Mentoring is a comprehensive process of supporting companies (business companies) and entrepreneurs who are at a crucial moment for theirs further development or for survival in general. The mentoring process represents a certain number of hours that the professional mentor spends in direct contact/work with the shop or business owner. The mentor's work begins with the diagnosis. The company and the mentor study together the reasons for current problems or obstacles to further development.

Based on the diagnosis, the mentor and the entrepreneur/company prepare a development plan/project. During this process, the mentor works as an assistant, but also as a coordinator and advisor.

The National Agency for Regional Development has standardized mentoring as a service within the implementation of the project "Institutionalization of mentoring as a service for MSMEs", financed by the Government of Japan through the Japan International Cooperation Agency - JICA. The National Agency for Regional Development has been implementing mentoring as a standardized service since 2011. The mentoring program in 2015 is an integral part of the new Project "Establishment and promotion of mentoring services for SMEs in the countries of the Western Balkans - Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro", which is being implemented by NARR in cooperation with the Government of Japan through the Japanese Agency for International Cooperation - JICA. The Project in question is the first of a regional nature financed by the Government of Japan and is being implemented in the period 2013-2016. year.

NARR also conducts an independent evaluation of mentoring users in the previous years of implementation, which showed that thanks to this service, SME users achieve an average 10% increase in sales, profits and the number of employees.

Content of mentoring services • Diagnosis - analysis of the current situation in the company, i.e. with entrepreneurs; • Help in the preparation of development activities/plans/projects, in order to the best possible business results were achieved; • Consulting and coordination of activities aimed at accessing funds, new technologies, consulting services, etc.; • Assistance in the preparation of documentation submitted to commercial banks and when applying for SME support programs; • Assistance in the implementation of development activities/plans/projects; • Assistance in finding business partners, through the republic network and in the EU network; • Assistance in finding the necessary information and consulting; • Training.

Implementation of mentoring

The mentors who will implement the program were trained within the six-module training for mentors and are employed in regional agencies and centers for support of MSME, that is, regional development agencies. Mentor training is one of the results of the Project of the National Agency for Regional Development and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

Mentoring users can be micro, small and medium-sized companies and entrepreneurs who are beginners in business (registered after March 1, 2014) or those who were registered before that date, as well as clusters (support is aimed at strengthening the capacity of cluster management for technological development and innovation, not individual members of the cluster).

PUBLIC CALL CONDITIONS

The right to participate in the public call has:

micro, small and medium-sized companies and entrepreneurs engaged in production or service provision, which meet the following conditions: • majority domestic private ownership, registered on the territory of the Republic of Serbia; • positive business results in the previous year (for the so-called existing MSPP);• settled tax and contribution obligations;• do not perform activities within the military industry and do not organize games of chance/lottery,

and clusters that meet the following conditions:• that they are registered in the Register of Associations in accordance with the applicable law;• that they are not in bankruptcy or liquidation proceedings;• that they have settled tax and contribution obligations;• that companies, members of the cluster, participants in the project, are registered in the territory of the Republic of Serbia and that they are in the majority domestic private ownership.

CANDIDATE CATEGORIES

Interested candidates can submit an application in three categories:• Newly established business entities (business companies and entrepreneurs) - registered after March 1, 2014;• Existing business entities - registered before March 1, 2014.• Clusters

REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION • For newly established business entities: 1. Completed form (can be downloaded from the website www.narr.gov.rs or in the premises of regional agencies and centers, from the list below - part entitled "Submission of applications"); 2. Certificate of registration of the company/business (original or certified copy); • For business entities that were registered before March 1, 2014: 1. Completed form (can be downloaded from the website www.narr.gov.rs or at the premises of regional agencies and centers, from the list below in the section entitled "Submission of applications"); 2. Certificate of registration of the company/shop (not older than 6 months, original or certified copy); 3. Confirmation from the competent Tax Administration that the company/shop - the applicant has settled all tax obligations in the previous year, as well as by the date of publication of the Public Call (original or certified copy); 4. Balance sheet, income statement and statistical annex for 2014, for which an authorized person from the company/shop must give a written statement that each of the documents is authentic and identical to the copy submitted to the Agency for Business Registers for final processing - sign the statement and certify it with the seal of the business entity. application"); 2. Certificate of cluster registration (not older than 6 months, original or certified copy); 3. Balance sheet and income statement for 2014 (except for clusters registered in 2015); 4. Confirmation of the competent branch of the Tax Administration on settled obligations based on taxes and contributions as of the date of publication of the Public Call

The National Agency for Regional Development reserves the right to check the authenticity of the submitted documentation.

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SENDING APPLICATIONS

Applications are delivered to the addresses:

Regional Center for Social Economic Development "Banat"-Zrenjanin, Čarnojevićeva 1; phone: 023/510 567; www.banat.rs

Regional Agency for Development and European Integration Belgrade d.o.o., Topličin venac 11/4; telephone: 011/2186 730, 2186 740; www.rarei.rs

Regional Agency for Economic Development of Šumadija and Pomoravlja-Kragujevac, Kralja Petra I 22; telephone: 034/300 575; www.redasp.rs

Regional Development Agency "Zlatibor"-Užice, Petra Ćelovića bb; telephone: 031/523 065, 510 098; www.rrazlatibor.co.rs

Regional Development Agency "PANONREG" - Subotica, Trg Cara Jovana Nenada 15; telephone: 024/554-107; www.panonreg.rs

Regional Development Agency Braničevo Podunavlje-Požarevac, Stari korzo 30/3; phone: 012/510-824; 511-823; www.rra-bp.rs

Regional Agency for Spatial and Economic Development of Raški and Moravički District-Kraljevo, Cara Dušana 77; telephone: 036/397-777; www.kv-rda.org

Sandžak Regional Development Agency "SEDA"-Novi Pazar, 7 July bb; telephone: 020/332-700; ; www.seda.org.rs

Center for the Development of Jablanica and Pčinj Districts-Leskovac, Pana Đukića 42; phone: 016/233-440; www.centarzarazvoj.org

Regional Agency for Economic Development and Entrepreneurship of the Pčinj District "VEEDA"-Vranje, Cara Dušana 12 b/27; phones: 017/ 405-641; 064/685-86-04; 064/685-86-23; www.veeda.rs

Regional Development Agency "Bačka"-Novi Sad, Bulevar Mihajla Pupina 20/2; telephone: 021/557 781; www.rda-backa.rs

Regional Development Agency "Srem"-Ruma, Main Street No. 172; telephone: 022/470-910; www.rrasrem.rs

MSPE Development Agency "ALMA MONS"-Novi Sad; Svetosavska 3a; phone: 021/427-822; 427-574; www.almamons.rs

Regional Agency for the Development of Eastern Serbia "RARIS"-Zaječar, Trg Oslobođenja bb; telephone: 019/426-376, 426-377; www.raris.org

Regional Development Agency "JUG" d.o.o-Niš, Obrenovićeva 38/1; phone: 018/515-447; 522-659; www.rra-jug.rs

Agency for Regional Development of Municipalities of Kolubara District "ARROKO"-Lajkovac; Youth Square 1; phone: 014/34-33-196; www.arroko.rs

Agency for Regional Development of Rasin District d.o.o.-Kruševac; Balkanska 63/IV; phone: 037/418-520.

Regional Development Agency of Podrinje, Podgorine and Radjevine-Loznica; Jovan Cvijić 20; telephone: 015/876-096; 015/875-993; www.rrappr.rs

The envelope must be clearly marked "FOR PUBLIC CALL - MENTORING 2015."

For additional information, you can call 011/20-60-815 or send an email to milan.vujovic@narr.gov.rs.

THE PUBLIC CALL IS OPEN UNTIL 15.05.2015. YEAR