Mentoring for 100 newly founded and existing companies

The public call for the implementation of the Mentoring Program is carried out 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 and Lajkovac.Project goal Free mentoring service for selected 100 entrepreneurs/business companies lasting 50 hours per client, until the end of November 2014. What is mentoring? Mentoring is a comprehensive process of supporting companies (business companies) and entrepreneurs who are at a crucial moment for their 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 mentoring program in 2014 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). private ownership, registered on the territory of the Republic of Serbia; • positive business results in the previous year (for the so-called existing SMEs); • paid obligations based on taxes and contributions; • do not perform activities within the military industry and do not organize games of chance/lottery. id="">Newly established business entities (companies and entrepreneurs) - registered after March 1, 2013; Existing business entities - registered before March 1, 2013. REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION For newly established business entities: 1. Completed form (can be downloaded from the Internet presentations at www.narr.gov.rs or in the premises of regional agencies and centers, from the list below - part entitled "Submitting applications"); 2. Certificate of registration of the company/shop (original or certified copy); For business entities that were registered before March 1, 2013: Completed form (can be downloaded from the website www.narr.gov.rs or in the premises of regional agencies i centers, from the list below in the text-part entitled "Submission of applications"); 1. Certificate of registration of the company/shop (not older than 6 months, original or certified copy); 2. 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); 3. Balance sheet, income statement and statistical annex for the year 2013, 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 stamp of the business entity. The National Agency for Regional Development reserves the right to verify the authenticity of the submitted documentation.