{"id":2105,"date":"2011-11-04T08:44:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T13:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ict-pulse.com\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2011-11-04T08:44:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T13:44:44","slug":"open-call-for-proposals-%e2%80%93-tech-businesses-are-eligible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/2011\/11\/open-call-for-proposals-%e2%80%93-tech-businesses-are-eligible\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Call for Proposals \u2013 Tech businesses are eligible!"},"content":{"rendered":"
This Call for Proposals is open to Caribbean businesses that are exporting or have the potential to export goods or services. Businesses serving a variety of sectors including ICT\/technology, are eligible to apply.<\/em><\/p>\n The Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA), the regional trade and investment promotion agency, is inviting applications for its Direct Assistance Scheme. The Scheme, which is funded by the European Union, provides financial assistance to small businesses with strong potential to export their product. Tech businesses are eligible for funding, provided they are:<\/p>\n CEDA will reimburse up to 70% of the total cost of the project. Hence applicants must have the funds available to fully cover the project, since reimbursement will only be effected once activities or projects under the grant contract have been completed.<\/p>\n Through the standard application process, CEDA can award between \u20ac5,000 and \u20ac30,000 (approximately USD\u00a06,840 and USD\u00a066,400). However, under accelerated procedures, applicants can secure reimbursement of between \u20ac1,000 and \u20ac5,000 (approximately USD\u00a01368 and USD\u00a06840).<\/p>\n Applications can be submitted via email, to directassistance@carib-export.com<\/a>, or by post. The deadline for submission is Friday, 28 November 2011, and no later than 4:30 p.m. Eastern Caribbean Time<\/strong>. More information on this grant, including the application forms and guidelines for the application process, can be found on the CEDA website, under Direct Assistance Scheme<\/a>.<\/p>\n _____________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This Call for Proposals is open to Caribbean businesses that are exporting or have the potential to export goods or services. Businesses serving a variety of sectors including ICT\/technology, are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82,17,27,97,11,77,18],"tags":[71,14],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-caribbean","category-computing","category-events","category-ict-tech","category-news","category-telecoms-2","tag-businesses","tag-ict4d","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iE1G-xX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n