FORREGION - Bagatellmessig støtte

This scheme is the de-minimis support strand of FORREGION (Forskningsbasert innovasjon i regionene) administered by Telemark fylkeskommune. FORREGION is presented on the county's page as a programme that helps businesses use research and development to develop their enterprises, combining a free competence-brokering service (kompetansemegling) with project funding.

The fundable element described on the page is pre-project support (forprosjektstøtte), given as a grant (tilskudd). The page sets out how to apply: "For å søke forprosjektstøtte i FORREGION Vestfold og Telemark må du ha dialog med en kompetansemegler som vil veilede i søknadsprosessen." — to apply for pre-project support in FORREGION Vestfold og Telemark you must have a dialogue with a competence broker who will guide you through the application process. Applicants are directed to "Ta kontakt med en kompetansemegler eller send inn din henvendelse til oss via Èn Vei Inn" — contact a competence broker or submit your enquiry via the "Én Vei Inn" portal, linked from the page at https://raskavklaring.innovasjonnorge.no.

The page does not publish a specific funding amount or maximum for the support, and it does not state a fixed application deadline on the page itself; instead it notes that the call is published on RFF Vestfold og Telemark ("Utlysningen ligger på RFF Vestfold og Telemark"). The page lists named competence brokers across the Telemark regions, each with phone and email contact details, who provide the brokering service free of charge. Because no opening or closing date and no amount are published on the funder's page, those fields are left unrecorded and the application mode is unknown.

The Norwegian state-aid register additionally records the scheme as "FORREGION - Bagatellmessig støtte" under stoettetiltaksnummer 1000033139 with the grantor Telemark fylkeskommune (organisasjonsnummer 929882989), a registered validity from 2026-01-01 with no end date, an instrument type of stoetteinstrumenttype.tilskudd, a 2026 annual budget of 2,000,000 NOK, and the de-minimis legal basis statsstoettekategori.bagatellmessigStoette under Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/2831. The register also cites the governing regulation: Forskrift om Kommunal- og distriktsdepartementets tilskudd til Forskningsbasert innovasjon i regionene FORREGION forvaltet av fylkeskommunene.