Malta Enterprise Support Measures

The Webinar will discuss:

• Support for the Rental and Acquisition of Industrial Premises
  • New support measure launched in July that provides businesses support to rent industrial premises or buy their own industrial premises from where to conduct an eligible activity
• The Undertaking in Difficulty Test
  • An in-depth explanation of the Undertaking in Difficulty Test that is required when requesting support under the General Block Exemption Regulation, and a walkthrough of the updated online form.
• Applying for Support: Best practices, Pitfalls and Overlaps
  • An insight to what business should look out for when applying for support, common mistakes to avoid and potential overlaps with other national and European funding.
• Support measures aimed at local business
  • An in-depth overview at support measures that may be used in flexible ways to support businesses

The Speakers

Karl Herrera has been engaged in the development and implementation of various support measures aimed to facilitate investment, research, entrepreneurship, and industry. Over the years he has been involved in the design of financial inst ruments, fiscal measures, other business support projects and initiatives aimed to facilitate economic development and industrial competitiveness. At Malta Enterprise, he currently leads a team responsible for project evaluation and the development of support measures.

Francesca Farrugia works at Malta Enterprise as Head Incentive Design, focusing primarily of development of new support measures for industry and the design and development the documentation package for all incentives. In her role she also coordinates the processes of project review and evaluation . She is involved in the organisation of promotional and training events for client facing staff, stakeholders and industry. In previous roles, Francesca gained extensive experience in corporate communications and in development of business strategies for the creative industries.