738 applications were submitted under the Business Development and Innovation Programme within the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014–2021 (NMF)

The Polish Agency for Enterprise Development informs that 738 applications were submitted under the four grant schemes for the total amount of support over PLN 1.2 billion. Among those applications 155 concerned projects planned to be implemented in partnerships with Norwegian entities. Call for proposals lasted 4 months: from 7^th of January 2019 to 14^th of May 2020.

The following number of applications were submitted under the individual schemes:

• Green Industry Innovations - 219 applications for over PLN 570 million,
• Blue Growth - 28 applications for over PLN 97 million,
• Welfare Technologies - 101 applications for over PLN 333 million,
• Small grants for female enterprises - 390 applications for over PLN 198.5 million.

All the submitted applications will be verified in terms of meeting the formal conditions, then the projects described in the applications will be assessed following the project selection criteria.