Through the following funds and programs, we help entrepreneurs with advice and financing. But with this we can also strengthen the sectors in Limburg. Would you like to know more? Give us a call. We will gladly help you.
LIOF is de regionale ontwikkelingsmaatschappij van de Provincie Limburg. Wij zorgen voor de versterking van de economische structuur en daarmee de groei van Limburg.
50 committed LIOF colleagues help your company grow with advice, a solid network and financing, to strive for a smarter, more durable and healthy Limburg.
Cooperating in the Euregion
We have an extensive network in Limburg, the Euregion and beyond. This enables us to quickly and effortlessly bring you into contact with parties who can help your company innovate and grow sustainably.
The cooperation around the Einstein Telescope is a good example. The technology is already being developed and there are sustainable opportunities for companies here.
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The added value of fast switching
An important added value that LIOF offers you is access to a broad external network. Inside and outside Limburg. At crucial moments in your business development you can come into contact with the right external specialists, knowledge institutions, co-financiers and fellow SMEs. You can do this one-on-one through an LIOF advisor and through events (Dutch) organized by LIOF.
Cross-border network
Partners in Belgium and Germany
Strengthening the Euregion is one of LIOF's core tasks. This means that we are also active outside Limburg and have a network to help entrepreneurs and to increase innovative capacity.
Strengthening the Euregion takes shape through, for example, cooperation with the RWTH in Aachen to promote innovation among industrial and logistics companies. We also work together with LRM, VOKA Limburg (both Belgian Limburg), IHK and NRW.BANK Aachen (both North Rhine-Westphalia) in order to link companies and knowledge institutions in the Euregion.
Subsidy opportunities over the border
In addition, LIOF is a partner of Interreg Europe, a European program aimed at strengthening the economy and cohesion in the European Union by promoting cooperation between regional areas in different countries. For example with subsidy programs of Interreg. This gives us access to a wide range of financing opportunities.
The subsidy scheme for SME innovation stimulation Top Sectors South Netherlands (MIT South) supports SME companies in the south of the Netherlands in setting up innovative projects. For example, there is a subsidy for testing the feasibility of a development and for R&D cooperation.
The Operational Program South (OPZuid) is an innovation subsidy intended to provide an additional stimulus to the competitiveness of South Netherlands (the provinces of Limburg, North Brabant and Zeeland). OPZuid focuses on SMEs and it strengthens cooperation between businesses and knowledge institutions.
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Take a seat in the Euregion
Take a seat in the Euregion is a new program and stems from the euregional cooperation between LRM, LIOF and NRW.BANK. It was developed to introduce startups to new markets and partners in Belgium and Germany. You literally take your place on one of the campuses: the Corda Campus in Hasselt, Digihub in Aachen or Brightlands Smart Services Campus in Heerlen. You will receive coaching and come into contact with relevant partners and local startups, giving you a taste of a new market in an accessible way.
Innovation. Expansion. Growth. Are you looking for co-financing to take that next step? LIOF provides financing to help SMEs move forward and has contacts with co-financiers in the region and beyond. Thanks to these partnerships we can take more risks, which means that together we can finance a higher amount. We have already helped numerous companies move forward through co-financing with banks. Also Euroregionally.
In need of an injection of knowledge?
We know the right experts
Does your company need knowledge to develop further? For example to improve business processes, research into application possibilities or to connect to new developments. Then LIOF will put you in contact with external specialists or knowledge institutions. Perhaps from the Brightlands campuses, with whom LIOF cooperates intensively.
But also students of universities and colleges in Limburg and the Euregion are eager to help you with new insights and ideas. We also regularly work together with the RWTH in Aachen. We are happy to put you in contact with them, so that they can get to work on a concrete issue.
Contact
Would you like to know more about the possibilities that LIOF offers? Please let us know, we would be happy to help you.
