Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Lodz Region
Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes
towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Pawel Zuromski,
President of the Board,
Lodz Regional Developmemt Agency
“Regions for economic change:
Regional Policy responses to demographic challenges”
Brussels, 25-26 January 2007
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Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Lodz Region
Integrated Regional Operational Programe - IROP
Measure 2.5 Entrepreneurship Promotion
European Social Fund
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General Topics
National and regional background for the
Measure’s implementation.
Criteria of the projects’ selections.
Characteristic of the implemented projects.
Characteristic of the final beneficiaries.
Experiences after two years of the
implementation period: positives features and
obstacles.
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Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Lodz Region
IROP - Measure 2.5 Entrepreneurship Promotion
European Social Fund
General information
•The objective of the measure is to develop the appropriate foundations
and conditions favoring the undertaking of independent business
activities and employment creation by stimulating the set up of new
local enterprises in non-traditional sectors of economy.
•Beneficiaries – project holders selected within the competition (Final
Recipients).
•Projects’ costs include:
a)Costs of Beneficiary related to project implementation (cannot
exceed 100 thousand PLN per year).
b)Costs of individual bridging allowance and one time business startup investment grants
•Ultimate Beneficiary – natural person, not registered as unemployed,
intending to undertake business activities (regardless of age, sex,
possessed vocational experience), excluding persons who have been the
owners of an enterprise and have conducted business activity after
1 January 2004.
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Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Lodz Region
IROP Measure 2.5 Entrepreneurship Promotion
European Social Fund
Utilisation of allocated funds: the Lodz Region
IROP Measure 2.5
Entrepreneurship
Promotion
Amount of
allocation (ESF)
according to IROP
Programme
Complement
Amount of
contracted EU
financial support
(ESF)
Indicative share of
contracted EU
Financial Support
in total allocation
of funds for years
2004-2006 (ESF)
Lodz Region
9,00 mio PLN
6,29 mio PLN
69,88 %
2.356.000 EUR *3,8235 = 9.029.370 PLN
[Allocation of funds for IROP multiplied by average rate of EUR in
Polish National Bank on 22.11.2006]
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Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Lodz Region
IROP Measure 2.5 Entrepreneurship Promotion
European Social Fund
Submitted projects in figures
Projects
Number of projects
registered
113
approved (after formal
evaluation)
104
transferred to PAC1
72
recommended
12
contracted
12
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1PAC – Projects’ Assessment Committee
Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Lodz Region
IROP Measure 2.5 Entrepreneurship Promotion
European Social Fund
Ultimate Beneficiaries
271
78 %
22 %
78
Inhabitants of rural areas
Inhabitants of urban areas
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Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Lodz Region
IROP Measure 2.5 Entrepreneurship Promotion
European Social Fund
Ultimate Beneficiaries by their status before participation in the programme
188
111
31, 81 %
53, 86 %
4,58 %
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9,74 %
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Persons not registered as unemployed, but unemployed
Persons employed
Undergraduates
Graduates
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Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Lodz Region
IROP Measure 2.5 Entrepreneurship Promotion
European Social Fund
Ultimate Beneficiaries / Newly set-up microenterprises
350
300
250
200
349
150
215
100
~ 61 %
50
0
Ultimate Beneficiaries
participating in projects
Ultimate Beneficiaries who
already started up their own
business activities
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Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Lodz Region
IROP Measure 2.5 Entrepreneurship Promotion
European Social Fund
Ultimate Beneficiaries by types of business activities
Trade
11%
Motor vehicles /
machinery and
equipment
11%
IT
27%
Manufacturing
7%
Other services
19%
Legal advice
7%
Advertising
11%
Health care
7%
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Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Lodz Region
IROP Measure 2.5 Entrepreneurship Promotion
European Social Fund
Needs / Possibilities
1000
800
600
1000
400
200
349
0
Interested in
participation in
projects
Total number of
possible project
participants
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Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Lodz Region
IROP Measure 2.5 Entrepreneurship Promotion
European Social Fund
Non-financial support
30%
70%
Training courses
Counselling
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Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Lodz Region
IROP Measure 2.5 Entrepreneurship Promotion
European Social Fund
Ultimate Beneficiaries – capital assistance
(till: 30.11.2006 Ultimate Beneficiaries benefited of:)
140
120
100
138
80
60
40
20
35
0
Investment
grants
Prolonged
bridging
allowance
0
Basic
bridging
allowance
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Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Lodz Region
IROP Measure 2.5 Entrepreneurship Promotion
European Social Fund
Problems / Opinions of Ultimate Beneficiaries
STRENGHTS:
• Improvement of vocational qualifications and skills
• Long term, complex and proffesional support
• Fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit among
persons who didn’t seem to be capable to start business activities
independently
WEAKNESSES:
• Complicated procedures (too many documents)
• Extending procedures for payments of allowances
• Quality of training courses (sometimes far away from expectations)
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Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Lodz Region
IROP Measure 2.5 Entrepreneurship Promotion
European Social Fund
Problems / Opinions of Final Recipients (Beneficiaries)
STRENGHTS:
• Great interest of the measure, particularly among young and
unemployed persons
• Promotion and development of institution/individual opportunities
WEAKNESSES:
• Complicated and often changed procedures/documents
• Extending period for payments
• Project laboriousness
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Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Lodz Region
IROP Measure 2.5 Entrepreneurship Promotion
European Social Fund
Problems / Opinions of Implementing Institution
STRENGHTS:
• Great interest in this measure
• Opportunity to implement projects aiming unemployment reduction
through support of entrepreneurial activities that implies set up of
new enterprises (the measure strongly corresponds with LRDA’s
mission)
WEAKNESSES:
• Over-developed institutional system
• Procedures / guides / programme documents (frequent changes)
• Projects laboriousness / lack of sufficient skills of Final Recipients
for project implementation (mainly staff shortages)
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Promotion of the entrepreneurship
- fostering positive attitudes towards an entrepreneurial spirit
Lodz Region
Pawel Zuromski M.Sc.
President of the Board
Lodz Regional Development Agency
Tuwima 22/26, 90-002 Lodz, Poland
tel. (+48-42) 664 37 51
fax (+48-42) 664 37 50
e-mail: [email protected]
[email protected]
http://www.larr.lodz.pl
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Elaboration in co-operation with:
Ewa Lefik
Alicja Grzesiak
Krzysztof Jasczak
Lodz Regional Development Agency
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