Business development grants
Grants for external consultants helping businesses in Örebro county reduce the climate impact of production or plan a low-carbon transition.
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Use external expertise to develop energy-efficient manufacturing, measure the climate impact of your own production, examine reuse or recycling of components, or carry out an energy audit in manufacturing. The check can also support digital development, new business opportunities, business models and innovation that enable a green, low-carbon economy.
The grant is SEK 50,000–250,000 and covers up to 50% of consultancy costs. It is paid in arrears, so you must finance the costs before receiving the grant.
Eligibility
Your business must operate for profit in Örebro county, have at least two employees and turnover of at least SEK 3 million. The whole group may have no more than 249 employees. You must show that a market-rate salary equivalent to at least a half-time position is being paid; hobby businesses do not qualify.
The development investment must be a significant step forward for your business, and you must demonstrate a clear need for support. Each application is assessed individually.
The following are excluded:
- Businesses serving a competitive local market where support could distort competition, such as restaurants, bars, hairdressers and shops.
- Mobile operations such as contracting businesses and haulage companies; agriculture, horticulture and fishing businesses; and activities predominantly financed or run with public funds.
- Salaries, operating costs, your own work, computers, mobile phones and tablets.
Costs included in the application must not have been ordered and paid before Region Örebro receives it.
This is de minimis aid: the total de minimis aid granted by Sweden to your business and control-linked businesses must remain within EUR 300,000 over a rolling three-year period. Businesses count together when they are linked, directly or through other businesses, by majority voting rights, the right to appoint or remove most board members, contractual or constitutional dominant influence, or an agreement giving one shareholder control of most votes. Count aid before tax or other charges when the legal right to receive it is granted, rather than when it is paid. For support other than grants, use its gross grant equivalent: the value of the aid expressed as a cash grant. On a merger or acquisition, include the earlier aid of all businesses involved. After a split, earlier aid follows the business that benefited; if that cannot be established, divide it by the new businesses’ equity book values at the split.
Other State aid for the same eligible costs cannot be combined with this check if the combination exceeds the applicable aid rate or amount limit. Aid directly tied to export quantities, establishing or operating an export distribution network or other current export costs, and aid conditional on choosing domestic goods or services over imports, is excluded.
How to apply
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- Fresh applications are invited for the business-development check.[^c1]
Apply through Tillväxtverket’s Min ansökan portal. Attach preliminary income and balance-sheet reports, your latest annual accounts and quotations. Region Örebro län handles the application and decides on support; assessment is carried out with ALMI. The region recommends contacting its business-support team before applying.
Until the de minimis register covers three years, you must provide a written or electronic declaration of other de minimis aid received over the relevant three-year period before new aid is granted.