Individual participation at fairs

Public tender for co-financing individual participations of companies in international trade fairs abroad is implemented under the framework of Axis 3 of OP for the Implementation of the EU Cohesion Policy in the Republic of Slovenia 2014 – 2020 by the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology through its implementing agency SPIRIT Slovenia. Purpose of tender is to enhance the possibility of presenting products/services of companies at international fairs, increasing the possibility of business cooperation with foreign partners and raising the internationalization level of companies.

Legal entities or natural persons conducting economic activities in the Republic of Slovenia who are entering a foreign market for the first time or are expanding and diversifying their business on foreign market are eligible for co-funding of rent costs of exhibition space, costs of arrangement and administration costs for exhibition space.

Eligible international fair has to be entered either in registry of fairs M+A ExpoDataBase or registry of fairs AUMA and has to feature at least 10% of exhibitions from abroad. Public tenders in 2015 and 2016 covered maximum of 60% or 8.000 EUR per presentation. Public tender for 2017 granted 8.762 EUR flat-rate per fair presentation.

Companies can use SPIRIT Slovenia online tool for planning activities and time plan of fair presentations (Sejemski vseved - fair know-it-all).