At the beginning of 2024, it will be possible to receive up to 10,000 euros for export promotion

As part of the EU4Business program, a competition for 100 grants for small businesses will be announced in the first quarter of 2024. The presentation of the competition took place during the TeamWIN Windows & Glass Day 2023 business conference in Ukraine. The grant program component for SMEs was presented by Kateryna Kryvoshei, the head of the grant programs for SMEs at EU4Business.

The competition will be divided into two waves, with 50 grants each. Companies in the processing industry with export capabilities and innovative potential can receive up to 10,000 euros.

Funds can be used for:

• Export promotion: exhibitions, trade missions, consultations, training.
• Certification.
• Research services.
• Registration and protection of intellectual property.
• Equipment testing and verification.
• Marketing research.

Requirements for participants:

• Legal entities of Ukraine registered before January 1, 2021.
• Businesses not owned by citizens or legal entities of the russian and belarus and the absence of subsidiaries there.
• No business activities in temporarily occupied territories.
• Not having received grants from GIZ and international donors since February 2022.

The strategic executor is the German federal company GIZ, with the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine as the beneficiary.

Also, at the beginning of the year, attention can be drawn to potential grant programs, sectors for which are still in the process of approval:

• Grant program for the development of export capabilities of innovative enterprises with 12 grants of 40,000 euros each.
• Grants for 20 small and medium-sized enterprises from the Ukrainian Startup Fund with grants up to 15,000 euros.