Antivirus voucher
The objective of the Anti-Virus Ban project is to support companies that, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, face specific negative business conditions, including: legal prohibition or restriction, additional sanitary regime, staff absenteeism, logistical and transport capacity restrictions, difficulties in supplying and increasing the prices of raw materials, materials, foreign services, congestion, withholding of investments, reduced demand for certain goods and services, etc. Within the framework of the project, a grant fund will be created, which will be entrusted to entrepreneurs operating in the Bialystok Functional Area (municipalities: Białystok, Choroszcz, Czarna Białostocka, Dobrzyniewo Duże, Juchnowiec Kościelny, Łapy, Supraśl, Turośń Kościelna, Wasilków and Zabłudów), to adapt to the functioning of the epidemic, sanitary regime and specific market conditions, related to it. Grants may be used to reorganise, retrofit and change operational processes in an enterprise to protect employees and customers, diversify or change business profile, introduce a new product or service in response to demand changes. Expenditure on the purchase of equipment (e.g. personal and collective protective equipment), fixed assets (e.g. machinery and equipment) and intangible assets (e.g. software) will be co-financed. Entrepreneurs will be able to receive a grant of up to PLN 100,000, as a refund of 90 % of the expenses incurred. The total expenditure in the project is PLN 6.6 million, of which the co-financing from the ROP PP will amount to PLN 6 million. The project will be implemented from 1 June 2020 to 31.01.2022. It was assumed that the result of the project will be not only the protection of the established economic fabric of BOF, but also a peculiar economic counterattack, which will allow companies to adapt faster and more effectively to the crisis situation and the new opening after the epidemics.