The Management Board of the Cooperation Fund Foundation announces the start of recruitment of participants for the “Success in your own business” project implemented under Sub-Measure VIII.3.1 “Support for entrepreneurship in non-repayable forms” of the Regional Operational Program of the Łódź Voivodeship Labour Office. We invite those interested in participating in the project to submit their applications by October 5th. The project aims to increase employment and entrepreneurship among people over 30 years of age who are facing the greatest challenges in the labor market in the Łódź Voivodeship, through training, consulting, and financial support for those intending to start a business during the project period. The project provides for the provision of 65 financial grants for business activity and the payment of bridge support of up to PLN 1,500 per month for the 12-month period of business operation.
Project Participation:
Only unemployed individuals who are over 30 years of age on the date of joining the project (the date of signing the project participation declaration) are eligible to participate.
Furthermore, only individuals facing the greatest challenges in the labor market are eligible to participate, which means:
Over 50 years of age – this means that the individual is eligible to participate in the project from their 50th birthday;
Long-term unemployed – means a person who has been unemployed continuously for more than 12 months before joining the project; registration with the district office is irrelevant;
a woman;
a person with a disability, which means:
a person whose disability has been confirmed by a decision:
of qualification by the adjudicating authorities to one of the three levels of disability,
of total or partial incapacity for work based on separate regulations,
of disability, issued before the age of 16,
or a person with a mental disorder, which means a person:
mentally ill (exhibiting psychotic disorders),
mentally retarded,
exhibiting other mental disturbances that, according to medical knowledge, are classified as mental disorders, and this person requires health services or other forms of assistance and care necessary to live in a family or social environment; A person with low qualifications is defined as someone with no education, or someone with primary, lower secondary, general upper secondary, vocational, or basic vocational education.
Only individuals who are studying or reside in the Łódź Voivodeship, as defined by the Civil Code, may participate in the project.
Only individuals who intend to register a business in the Łódź Voivodeship may participate in the project.
The project will recruit 80 individuals, including at least 55 women.
Detailed guidelines for applying and participating in the project are set out in the Recruitment Regulations for the “Success in Your Own Business” project, available on the websites www.swwf.pl and www.cofund.org.pl/Projects/sukces-we-wlasnej-firmie and at the project office. Submitting Recruitment Forms
The recruitment form should be submitted to the project office or sent to the project office by traditional mail between September 15, 2016, and October 5, 2016.[1] In the case of mail, the date of receipt of the form by the project implementer will be decisive. The printed and signed form must be accompanied by an electronic version on a CD, also signed with the candidate’s name and surname.
A template of the recruitment form and a template of the declaration of professional inactivity are available in the project office and on the project website (on the FFW website www.cofund.org.pl/Projects/sukces-we-wlasnej-firmie or www.swwf.pl).
Required addresses:
The project is implemented by the Cooperation Fund Foundation, ul. Górnośląska 4a, 00-444 Warsaw.
The project office is located at ul. Wólczańska 51, 90-608 Łódź, opening hours: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
For more information, please call +48 22 4509867 / +48 885 243 187 / +48 698 376 606 or email ikowalska@cofund.org.pl / swwf@cofund.org.pl.
[1] The project manager reserves the right to suspend recruitment if the number of applications exceeds the number of places in the project twice.
