Projects Qualifying for the Support Facility and Project Phases
- establishing a joint venture (e.g. production or services)
- establishing a subsidiary company (e.g. production or services)
- subcontracting (e.g. manufacturing or services)
- value-added importing
- other long-term business activity (such as long-term maintenance-, franchise- or licensing contract)
- pilot projects related to Finnish environmental technology.
Business Partnership Support does not cover expenses associated with exporting or projects, which are associated with locating an agent or a distributor for a Finnish exporter. Certain phases of export projects can be supported when they involve long-term commercial cooperation with a company or an organisation in developing countries, and transfer of technology/know-how, for example in the case of long-term operation and maintenance contracts between Finnish and developing country actors. In such a case, e.g. identifying a developing country partner and training of developing country employees can be supported.
The exclusion list includes projects/sectors that Finnpartnership will not support.
The support covers approved expenses incurred in the following phases of a project:
- identifying business partners
- pre-feasibility study
- feasibility study
- social and environmental impact assessment
- business plan
- training of the employees in the target developing country
- utilising experts in developing a specific business area of a project, and
- planning, employee training and technical assistance in pilot projects related to Finnish environmental technology.
Business Partnership Support can be applied for the above-mentioned phases either at several stages or all at once.