The Action "Basic Digital Transformation of SMEs" is part of the state aid package "Digital Transformation of SMEs" and concerns companies that have not yet integrated important information and telecommunications technologies (ICT) in their operation and aims to cover basic deficiencies in applications and equipment.
❖ Beneficiaries of the Action
Beneficiaries of the Action are existing very small, small and medium enterprises that:
1. They submit a single financing application per VAT number.
2. They are active in the Greek territory and to invest exclusively in a single Region Category.
3. They keep Aplographic or Diplographic books and have closed at least one (1) full administrative year.
4. They are active in one of the eligible KAD of the investment plan for at least one (1) year.
5. The investment plan concerns exclusively an eligible KAD of the Action.
6. They have at least three (3) EME dependent work during the calendar year preceding the submission of the funding application.
It is noted that the business must have been registered in the Register of Beneficial Beneficiaries before the date of submission of the financing application.
❖ Subsidized budget
Within the framework of the Action, funding applications of an amount of €18,000 to €30,000.
*Please note that the subsidized budget of the investment plan may not exceed three times the highest turnover achieved in one of the three (or less if the business does not have three) closed management periods preceding the year of submission of the funding application.
❖ Subsidy rates
❖ Eligible Expenses
The main categories of expenses are:
• Equipment Expenses with indicative costs: Supply of digital office equipment, upgrade of internal data transfer networks, interaction with employees, customers or suppliers, etc.
• Software Expenses with indicative costs: Supply of modern business resource & process management applications (eg ERP, WMS, KPIs, EDI, BMPS, etc.), image processing, 3D models and CAD, digital security, customer and supply chain management, production optimization, etc. .
• Expenses for Provision of Services related to the digital upgrade with indicative costs: Advisory support for monitoring the implementation of the investment plan, technical support for the implementation of the investment plan, installation or configuration of applications included in the application. financing.
• Indirect costs, up to 7% on the eligible direct costs of the investment plan.
The date of publication of the Detailed Call for the Action is defined as the start date of expenditure eligibility.
❖ Implementation of Action
The maximum duration of completion of the physical and economic object of the investment project cannot exceed them nine (9) months, from the date of issuance of the Incorporation Decision.
The company can implement expenses at its headquarters and/or in its branches, as long as all implementation points belong to the same Region Category and as long as they have the same intensity of support.
❖ Reinforcement Regime
EC Regulation 1407/2013 (De Minimis)
❖ Submission of applications
The start date for electronic submission of funding applications is defined as Thursday 23/02/2023 at 12:00.
The Call will remain open until the available budget is exhausted.
The evaluation of the funding applications is done by the method of the direct procedure, respecting the order of priority.
For more details, information and for any clarification regarding the eligibility of your own business, please contact us at the contact numbers 2392306040 / 6947273850 or by emailing to gp@ipconsulting.gr
