Strefa Transformacji
Training and retraining for residents of the 35 municipalities of the Bełchatów region, funded up to 93%.
- Completed
- Individuals
- Transformation Area
- Co-funded up to 93%
Grants for a company of your own in the Transformation Area
- Coming soon
- Regional transformation
Grant na start (Start-up Grant) is support for residents of the Transformation Area who want to start a company, and for small and medium-sized enterprises from the region. The project’s formal name is start_UP, and the Just Transition Fund finances it.
What Grant na start is
The region after coal needs new companies. The project start_UP (Strefa Transformacji i Akceleracji dla Rozwoju Terytorialnego Obszaru Transformacji) is there to help people from the Transformation Area set up their own business, and young and established SMEs from the region get past the barriers to growth.
The support runs along two paths. The incubation path is for people starting a company and for SMEs no older than 60 months: a grant of up to PLN 550,000 and 10 hours of specialist advisory. The growth path is for companies with a longer record that have a registered office or a branch in the Transformation Area: up to 80 hours of advisory and a mini-grant of PLN 20,000.
The project is designed to support 52 individuals and 51 small and medium-sized enterprises. Its value is PLN 19,980,832.14, of which PLN 18,973,159.78 comes from funding. It is open to people who study, work or live in the 35 municipalities of the Transformation Area designated in the Territorial Just Transition Plan for the Łódź Voivodeship. We will announce the call dates in the Zone’s events and news.
What you gain
Grant na start puts money for the start-up phase together with the advisory that new companies lack most.
The incubation path pays for the first investments and the start-up costs of a business set up in the Transformation Area.
Ten hours with a specialist: the business model, registration, taxes, the first contracts. A conversation about your company, not a general course in entrepreneurship.
Companies with a longer record get up to 80 hours of advisory and a mini-grant of PLN 20,000 to widen what they offer or raise productivity.
The Zone ran the development vouchers in the Transformation Area and co-runs the Observatory. It knows the municipalities, the employers and the institutions a new company will work with.
Participants join the business mixers, technology consultations and investor meetings the Zone holds in the region.
Grant na start in numbers
what the project plans
- PLN 550,000maximum grant in the incubation path
- 52individuals in the project’s target
- 51SMEs in the project’s target
- 35municipalities of the Transformation Area
- PLN 20 millionthe project’s value
Financed by the Just Transition Fund
The start_UP project is co-financed by European Funds for Łódzkie 2021–2027 from the Just Transition Fund. The total cost is PLN 19,980,832.14, and the funding amounts to PLN 18,973,159.78.
Funded by the European Union.
Frequently asked questions
Individuals who study, work or live in the Transformation Area and want to start a company, and small and medium-sized enterprises with a registered office or a branch there, whether younger or older than 60 months.
We will announce the date in the Zone’s news and events. Leave your contact details with the project’s account manager and we will let you know before it starts.
In the incubation path, up to PLN 550,000 plus 10 hours of advisory; in the growth path, a mini-grant of PLN 20,000 plus up to 80 hours of advisory. The call’s rules will set out the details.
No. That programme ended in 2023. The Zone’s Grant na start is a new project, start_UP, financed from the Just Transition Fund and open only to the Transformation Area.
Strefa Transformacji paid for training for people looking for a new occupation. Grant na start supports those who want to start their own company, and SMEs that already work in the region.
Questions about Grant na start? Write to us
The team of the department that runs the Zone’s projects in the Transformation Area will answer questions about the rules and the date of the call.
Not sure who to call?
Call the hotline or go to the programme website.
Other Zone projects
Grant na start is part of the Zone’s transition portfolio. See what else we do in the Bełchatów region.
Transformation Area Observatory
Studies how the region is changing after coal, and supports local authorities and residents through that change.
- Active
- Local authorities and residents
- Transformation Area
Startup Spark 4.0
Has already connected over 250 startups with the region’s large companies.
- Active
- Startups
- Free
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