Financial support/Swedpartnership

Swedfund offers financial support for small and medium-sized Swedish enterprises to invest in equipment and knowledge transfer when setting up businesses in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. This support is a special venture from Ministry for Foreign Affairs and is financed with a separate budget. We call it Swedpartnership.

The objective of the loans is to motivate such enterprises to start up sustainable businesses in challenging markets.

The loan can be amortized once the project has been carried out and its results approved. The maximum loan is SEK 750,000 or 40 per cent of total estimated costs, at least one third of which must be for knowledge transfer.

To qualify the Swedish enterprise must:

• be a limited company with between 5 and 249 employees
• have a maximum annual turnover of 50 MEUR and/or
• have a balance sheet total of maximum 43 MEUR.

Contact
Does this sound right for you? Feel free to phone Staffan Ahl, Karin Thorsson or
Nils Marcks v Würtemberg at +46 8 725 98 85, or find out more at www.swedpartnership.se