APDRP (Paying Agency for Rural Development and Fisheries) has announced the launching of a new call for projects under Measure 121 of the National Rural Development Programme (PNDR). This new session will start on June 25 and will close on July 31, 2013. Some 50 million euro are available for investments in (smaller family) farms, with economic size of 2-50 ESU, the maximum grant being 50,000 euro for projects with a maximun eligible value of 125,000 euro.

Women with ideas, who want to start a business, can benefit from the state of an aid in value of 10,000 euros, under the "Woman Entrepreneur" program, which will debut at the end of June, announced on June 14, in Deva, Minister for SMEs, Business Environment and Tourism Maria Grapini. The program is a first for the business milieu, given that women who can file for funds must submit a business plan that will be evaluated electronically, to eliminate subjectivity, and the age criteria do not matter. "Here the model is that women can also start a business later in life.