Scope and Objectives
Support for Entrepreneurial Training aims to promote the adaptation of workers, companies and entrepreneurs to change, active and healthy ageing and a healthy and well-adapted working environment capable of preventing health risks.
- Increase the specific qualifications of workers in areas relevant to the strategy of innovation, internationalization and modernization of companies;
- Increase business management skills and e-skills to support companies’ innovation strategies and new business models;
- Promoting upskilling and reskilling strategies, with a view to adapting and specializing companies’ human resources and their ability to retain skills and talent; and
- Promote actions to stimulate and raise awareness of change and exchange good practices (mobility and exchange of experiences).
Beneficiaries
Medium and large companies that have their own certified structure or use a certified or equivalent training entity.
Incentive Rate and Form of Support
Base rate: 50%.
Increases:
- Medium-sized company: +10%; and
- If aimed at disabled or disadvantaged workers: +10%;
The support is non-refundable.
Eligible Actions
Eligible actions are training courses, in person or online, which include classroom interventions, simulated practice or practice in a work context.
The training, which must be provided by a certified entity or equivalent, and may be provided by the beneficiary company if it has its own certified structure, must be developed in the following thematic areas:
- Efficient and safe working environment;
- Improving business-critical technical skills;
- Applied data science and machine learning;
- Eco-design and product engineering, including digital tools;
- Circular economy, sustainability and environment;
- Digital economy, digitalization and Industry 4.0;
- Energy efficiency and transition;
- Manufacturing sustainable products with high added value;
- Collaborative work tools, agile and efficient production processes and supply chain management;
- Management and productivity improvement tools;
- Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG);
- Productive, technological and organizational innovation;
- Internationalization: strategies for entering markets and optimizing management processes;
- Internationalization: brand creation and management;
- Internationalization: online sales, communication and digital marketing;
- Artificial intelligence applicable to various business areas;
- Leadership and motivation of work teams; and
- Servitization of the industry and international markets.
Submission of Applications
Call for applications open until 31.JAN.2024.
Observations
To be eligible for support, operations must meet the following access conditions:
- Present a training plan identifying the training needs, specifying the objectives, activities and results to be achieved and their link to the strategy and investment in areas relevant to their competitiveness within the Competitiveness Cluster and presenting an appropriate evaluation methodology;
- Preferably be structured in 25-hour modules, namely from the National Qualifications Catalog or not, if duly justified.
- Contain training groups limited to 25 workers per action (class). In exceptional and duly justified cases, a higher number of trainees may attend the training actions, which will not be counted when calculating the eligible cost financed;
- Have a maximum duration of 24 months, which includes activities related to carrying out questionnaires with participants to determine the result indicator; and
- Have a favorable opinion issued by the Competitiveness Cluster, attesting to the alignment of the operation with the collective efficiency strategy and with the priority areas of the respective Sector Pact.
