[{"bbox": [96, 153, 1161, 582], "category": "Text", "text": "The green transition of export-oriented SMEs shall be fostered through an SME Accelerator and an Innovation Challenge Fund, with specific windows for women. The Action will identify ideas or solutions, and select projects or service providers via a competitive format. Through technical assistance the successful applicants will upgrade their knowledge and skills related to topics like green business processes and practices, traceability, compliance, certification or/and access to finance. With an Innovation Challenge Fund, the Action will provide selected graduates from the Accelerator with seed financing through a matching grant as well as clustered actions involving different organisations and thus enable them to upscale, enhance and green their businesses, realise innovations and at the same time build a credit history. The Accelerator and the funding will provide specific windows for domestic service providers relevant for the export-oriented SMEs thus that they can improve and upscale their products or services and better serve the export sector. Through the promotion of linkages between export-oriented SMEs and the service providers and a multistakeholder collaboration with academia, the ecosystem for research and solutions will be strengthened and thus the competitiveness of the private sector increased. Provided that a critical number of SMEs and domestic service providers understand the need for a green transition to stay competitive and have the capabilities to participate successfully in the competitive formats of the Accelerator and MGF the participating firms will be thus prepared for a successful green transition."}, {"bbox": [96, 598, 1161, 884], "category": "Text", "text": "Targeted green investments for sustainable development of the industrial sector shall be facilitated through dialogue platforms of key stakeholders that identify green investment opportunities for which bankable projects shall be developed. If relevant key stakeholders from public and private sector, academia, and researchers engage in a meaningful dialogue backed by evidence-based data, engage technical experts or form technical working groups, they will be able to identify green investment opportunities. With support of the Action and through the engagement of financial experts and financing institutions the key stakeholders can develop bankable projects for some of the identified opportunities, e.g. for the construction of a Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), and thus facilitate targeted green investments for sustainable development of the industrial sector. Moreover, the same platforms of dialogue will also be used to identify issues, advocate solutions and address challenges associated with implementation of laws and policies focused on green transition and sustainable growth of the industry."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 18 of 31"}]