The Facility helps SMEs identify quality projects, introduces best practices and assists in the implementation process. SMEs can get business advice that would enhance their technical, managerial, market knowledge and investment project development skills and help them become more competitive on local and international markets. Expertise of industry-specific consultants provide advices on energy efficient or environmentally-friendly practices.
Within the project SMEs can refer for counselling services to help them enhance their technical, managerial skills and gain market knowledge. The Facility also provides technical assistance to SMEs investing in new machinery and technology to comply with EU Directives. And helps SMEs comply with new sanitary, phytosanitary, technical and quality standards, as well as with environmental protection measures. SMEs are able to seize new trade opportunities and new markets, boost exports to the EU and beyond.
Assists SMEs in putting together bankable projects that are in line with eligibility criteria as well as fill out loan application and with other relevant activities. The project helps SMEs have better understanding of financial issues, improve managerial capacity and build entrepreneurial skills to benefit their projects in the future.
The project focuses on the great potential of Georgia’s mountainous regions. It aims to improve the business environment and create new income opportunities in mountain tourism and organic agriculture. The project contributes to boosting the economy and rising incomes in mountainous regions through awareness-raising, trainings, facilitation of guesthouse owners’ and guides’ certification, organic certification, marketing support and provision of direct advisory.
The project supports business development and building innovative ecosystem. It assists Georgian Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA) to effectively coordinate the government’s approach to innovation policy and implementation, as well as improve opportunities for investing in innovative, early-stage companies in Georgia. It improves access to support and finance for more entrepreneurs and SMEs and contributes to increasing a number of investors brought to market.
The project aims to help SMEs make a more informed decision about trade while doing business in the region and with EU countries. It contributes to creating an online portal that offers access to trade information from a regional perspective including tariffs, non-tariff measures, taxes, trade statistics and procedures.
Ensures technical assistance by an international team of experts/engineers providing services free of charge to SMEs investing in new machinery and technology to comply with EU Directives. The programme provides better access to finances and enhances SME competitiveness on local and regional levels.
The project provides support to SMEs to implement climate technologies including renewable energy, water efficiency, energy efficiency and materials efficiency. It assists them in resource efficiency audits that help prioritize efficiency investments, as well as understand what equipment and finances they need for climate technologies in their context.
ENPARD programme aims to enhance competitiveness and sustainability of the agriculture business organisations, improve their food safety and food quality standards and procedures for inspection and control.
The project provides some targeted assistance to local BSOs in agro-processing sector in Georgia. Support is directed to helping companies access the EU market, through targeted capacity-building, advisory services and market access activities. The project assists BSOs to meet the needs of SMEs in the selected global value chains; conducts training on the key areas for improvement; contributes to information-knowledge sharing platforms and facilitate technical and commercial collaboration linkages with professional institutions and sector organisations from the target markets.
The project aims to help SMEs make a more informed decisions about trade while doing business in the region and with EU countries. It contributes to creating an online portal that offers access to trade information from a regional perspective including tariffs, non-tariff measures, taxes, trade statistics and procedures.
To improve economic development in Georgia, the EU has been supporting the establishment of clusters that help SMEs team up with businesses in their industry and become more competitive on the market. Within the project SMEs in apparel, construction and tourism can become members of clusters and as a result, benefit from technical advisory, enhance products and services, get access to financing, expand networks, as well as strengthen international market linkages.
The project assists Georgian entrepreneurs to develop specific clusters and connect with different actors in the industry for enhancing marketing and innovation, as well as improving public-private dialogue and strengthening the ties with the EU.