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Funding is available to unlisted micro-enterprises with fewer than ten employees and an annual turnover or annual balance sheet of less than EUR 2 million that meet the following requirements:

• The company must be no more than three years old according to its first entry in the commercial register or first notification to the trade register.
• The company must be based in North Rhine-Westphalia and be maintained throughout the entire project.
• The company must not have distributed any profits.
• The company must not have taken over the activities of another company, unless the turnover of the acquired activity accounts for less than 10% of the turnover achieved by the applicant company in the financial year prior to the takeover.
• The company must not have taken over another company or have emerged from a merger. Unless the turnover of the acquired company accounts for less than 10% of the turnover of the applicant company in the financial year prior to the takeover. Alternatively, the turnover of the undertaking resulting from a merger may be less than 10% higher than the total turnover of the two merging undertakings in the financial year preceding the merger.

The size class of the undertaking is determined in accordance with Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of May 6, 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, as amended.

Applications can be submitted on an ongoing basis until 31.10.2026 via the EFRE application portal or in writing to the NRW Innovation Promotion Agency using the application forms.

The call for funding provides for a one-stage procedure. Please take advantage of the advice offered by the NRW Innovation Promotion Agency in advance.