2nd Call for applications for a grant to support the education and training of developers of cyber security solutions, within the framework of financial support to third parties
ClosedBeneficiary & submission
The completed application form shall be signed by the statutory body with a qualified electronic signature or a qualified electronic signature bearing a mandate certificate or a qualified electronic seal. The applicant shall send the application signed in this way to the Authority in electronic form, as an annex to the electronic submission, via the Authority’s electronic mailbox established within the Central Public Administration Portal www.slovensko.sk via the ‘General Agenda’ service. An application that is not received by the Authority in the form indicated above will not be considered to have been submitted and will be disqualified from the evaluation process. The method of delivery of the application set out in Annex 2 to the call ‘Conditions for granting a grant’ is further detailed. In order to establish the ranking of applications, each grant application is assessed with the application of the Criteria for the selection of projects, which form Annex 4 to the call . By applying the criteria for selecting projects, the Authority creates a descending ranking of applicants whose grant applications met the conditions for granting a grant, starting from the application that obtained the most points based on the criteria. The purpose of applying the criteria for selecting projects is to determine the ranking of applicants, according to which the Authority sends a notification of compliance with the conditions for granting a grant. At the same time, it immediately sends the draft grant agreement to those applicants (in the order determined based on the project selection criteria) for whom the grant is fully covered by the amount of call funds available. For applicants for whom the grant is not fully covered by the amount of available allocation of the call funds, the Authority will not send a draft grant agreement due to the lack of funds intended for exhaustion within the call. For more information please visit https://ncca.nbu.gov.sk/vyzva-na-predkladanie-ziadosti-o-nenavratny-financny-prispevok-nfp-na-podporu-vzdelavania-a-odbornej-pripravy-vyvojarov-rieseni-v-oblasti-kybernetickej-bezpecnosti-2/
Further information
Only projects aiming at obtaining a certificate of completion of a education/training course in the field of product certification under the EUCC cybersecurity certification scheme and Commission Implementing Regulation 2024/482 for a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 3 employees of the applicant shall be considered eligible under this call. The minimum requirements for the scope of the educational activity/training are set out in Annex 7 to this call. An applicant may submit only one application for a grant. In the event of multiple applications, the Authority shall take into account the last application submitted. Beneficiaries of the grant may be In the context of this call , eligible applicants are legal entities pursuant to Section 2(2)(a) of the Commercial Code[1], which meet all of the following conditions: - meet the definition of a small and medium-sized enterprise (hereinafter referred to as an SME[2]), - at the date of submission of the application, they are registered in the territory of the Slovak Republic, - they have, at the date of submission of the application, approved accounts for: ·a completed financial year which is not a financial year of less than 12 months and which is also immediately preceding the financial year in which the application is submitted[3], or ·a completed financial year which is not a financial year of less than 12 months and which is also immediately preceding the financial year referred to in the preceding indent[4]. In the case of SMEs resulting from a merger or division[5], the period of business of the longest-running merging company , the capital or part thereof of which has been transferred to the successor company, shall also be taken into account for the purposes of assessing the period of business . -demonstrate, at the date of submission of the application, that they intend to provide or are providing a product with digital elements to customers (according to REGULATION (EU) 2024/2847 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 23 October 2024 on horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements and amending Regulations (EU) No 168/2013 and (EU) 2019/1020 and Directive (EU) 2020/1828 (Cyber Resilience Act), which is defined as application software, i.e. software that runs on any platform and performs tasks on behalf of a user or system owner. It can be a variety of software, such as office packages, development environments, server-client applications, thin clients, communication tools, software implementation of a network device that is connected to an IP network and plays the role of transmission security or control of IP packet flow within that network, cryptographic data protection applications, smartphone applications, etc., or HW equipment within which such application SW is implemented. Grants for eligible applicants will amount to 100% of the total eligible expenditure and will be implemented on the basis of the submitted payment application and under the conditions laid down in this call and its related documents. - Minimum amount of grant: € 3 210 (excluding VAT) - Maximum amount of grant: € 9 630 (excluding VAT) The maximum amount of non-refundable grant is based on the number of employees who successfully complete the educational activity/training as follows: Number of trainees Amount of education allowance Flat rate for indirect expenditure Total grant granted 1 EUR 3000 excluding VAT €210 EUR 3210 (excluding VAT) 2 EUR 6000 excluding VAT €420 EUR 6420 (excluding VAT) 3 EUR 9000 excluding VAT €630 EUR 9630 (excluding VAT) For more information please visit: https://ncca.nbu.gov.sk/vyzva-na-predkladanie-ziadosti-o-nenavratny-financny-prispevok-nfp-na-podporu-vzdelavania-a-odbornej-pripravy-vyvojarov-rieseni-v-oblasti-kybernetickej-bezpecnosti-2/ [1] Act No. 513/1991 Coll. Commercial Code as amended. [2] Referred to in Annex I of Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty (OJ L 187, 26.6.2014). [3] Example: Where an applicant submits an application in 2024, the immediately preceding accounting period shall be that of 2023 and shall not be less than 12 months. This shall apply if the financial year is the same as the calendar year. In the case of a marketing year, the procedure shall be similar. [4] Example: Where an applicant submits an application in 2024, the accounting year immediately preceding the accounting year referred to in the previous indent shall be the accounting year 2022 and shall not be less than 12 months. This shall apply if the financial year is the same as the calendar year. In the case of a marketing year, the procedure shall be similar. [5] Pursuant to Section 69 of Act No 513/1991 Coll. Commercial Code as amended.