Bandi november 2024: IA, Digital and much more

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The aim of the call is to support the acquisition of innovative services aimed at the introduction and testing of artificial intelligence solutions in business contexts.

The main eligible expenditure is:

• Analysis, design, development of solutions;
• Training and testing of artificial intelligence algorithms;
• Validation and acceptance of solutions by users; impact assessment
• Legal, contractual implications on the processing of personal data;
• Cybersecurity services related to the use of AI;
• Data storage, data quality, data analytics and business intelligence services

• Geo: Umbria
• Opening and expiry of the call: Open kiss, expires on 28/02/2025
• Type of aid: contribution to lost fund
• Beneficiary: Large Enterprise, Media, Small and Micro Enterprise
• Funded expenditure: Consulting, Digitalization, Services.
• Amount of call: The company project will have a total minimum cost of €30,000 and maximum of € 150,000. The event consists of a total contribution of €75,000 to 50%.
  

The call is dedicated to financing productive investments in the Regions of the Mezzogiorno.
α There are 300 million euros available to apply to the national programme “Research, Innovation and Competitiveness for the Green and Digital ERDF transition
2021-2027”.
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Development plans may cover:

• conversion of an existing production unit;
• the creation/expansion of a production unit
  

The eligible expenditure provided for is for example computer programs, patents, licenses, know-how and technical knowledge not patented concerning new product and manufacturing processes technologies; for large enterprises such expenditure is eligible up to 50 percent of the total eligible investment.

Summary sheet of the notice

• Geo: Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Puglia, Sardinia, Sicily.
• Opening and expiry of the call: Next opening.
• Type of aid: contribution to lost fund
• Beneficiary: Large Enterprise, Media, Small and Micro Enterprise
• Funded expenditure: Consulting, Digitalization, Hardware/Software, Services
• Amount of call: an amount of 300 million euros of the National Programme "Research, Innovation and Competitiveness for the Green and Digital Transition ERDF 2021-2027” is intended for investment programmes, amounting to not less than 5 million euros and up to 20 million euros, carried out by enterprises, including large size, on the territorial areas provided for in the Programme.

This Bando aims to finance the acquisition of consulting and training services to promote the rationalization of energy use by companies, the adoption of ESG criteria and the ISO 14001 certification.

The eligible costs include the purchase of Management Systems that have specific functions aimed at business operations

Summary sheet of the notice

• Geo: Piedmont
• Opening and expiry of the call: Open and expire on 29/11/24
• Type of aid: contribution to lost fund
• Beneficiary: Medium, Small and Micro Enterprise
• Funded expenditure: Certifications, Consulting, Digitalization, Training, Hardware/Software, Energy Saving
• Amount of call: The benefits will be granted in the form of a lost fund contribution to cover 50% of the costs incurred and considered eligible, with a maximum amount of € 5,000. The minimum value of the investment is 3,000 euros.
  

The aim of the call is to strengthen the digitalization and technological process of the Umbrian company network. In particular, it aims to finance projects carried out by enterprises with a low level of digital intensity aimed at making the first steps of the digitalization path.

Summary sheet of the notice

• Geo: Umbria
• Opening and expiry of the call: open on 04/11/2024 expires on 28/05/2025.
• Type of aid: contribution to lost fund
• Beneficiary: Small and Medium Enterprises.
• Funded expenditure: Digitalization, Innovation, Research and Development, Construction and Plant Works, Energy Saving, Services.
• Amount of call: The minimum eligible costs are EUR 5,000 and the maximum amount is EUR 30,000. A percentage of 70% or 80% is financed on these amounts depending on the size of the enterprise.

The Marchi+2024 measure aims to support SMEs in the protection of brands abroad, through the following facilitative measures:

αMisura A – Agevolazioni per favor la Registration di mark dell’Unione
European at EUIPO (European Union Office for Property
Intellectual).

The A measure provides for some requirements:

• It is necessary to have carried out, from 1 January 2021, the
  application for registration of the trademark at EUIPO and the trademark
  must have been accepted and recorded.

For the A-Measurement, the benefits are granted to the extent of80% of eligible expenditure, for a maximum of Euro 6000 for each brand.
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Measure B – Facilitations to promote the registration of international brands at OMPI.

) To participate in the Measures B there are certain requirements and in particular it is necessary to have carried out, from 1 January 2021, one of the following activities:

• the application for registration at OMPI of a registered trademark
  national and/or European level.
• the application for registration at OMPI of a trademark in via
  national and/or European registration.
• having obtained the publication of the application for registration on
  International Register of the brand’s OMPI (Madrid Monitor)

For the Measure B, the benefits are granted to the extent of 90% of the
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Summary sheet of the notice

• Geo: National kiss
• Opening and expiry of the call: opening 26/11/2024 until exhaustion of funds.
• Type of aid: contribution to lost fund
• Beneficiary: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
• Funded expenditure: Consulting, Brands/Brevetti/Disegni, Services: the costs incurred by the company for the protection and registration of the brand, including taxes incurred by UIBM or EUIPO and OMPI for international registration are facilitated.
• Amount of call: The total financial allocation is 2 million euros.

The instrumental Assets measure (“New Sabatini”) is the MIMIT’s facilitation with the aim of facilitating access to business credit by supporting investments to purchase or acquire leasing machinery, equipment, plants, instrumental goods for productive and hardware use, as well as software and digital technologies.

Summary sheet of the notice:

• Geo: National kiss
• Opening and expiry of the call: Open bay until fund exhaustion
• Type of aid: contribution to lost fund
• Beneficiary: Micro, Small and Media Enterprise.
• Funded expenditure: Equipment and machinery, Digitalization, Hardware/Software.
• Amount of call: The financing, which can be assisted by the guarantee fund for small and medium-sized enterprises up to 80% of the amount of the financing itself, must be: lasting not more than 5 years, of an amount between 20,000 euros and 4 million euros, entirely used to cover eligible investments

The New Skills Fund (FNC) is a public fund with a budget of 800 million euros whose goal is to finance the training of employees of Italian companies on the themes of new technologies, digitalisation and sustainability through the design of a training plan.

The fund allows companies to obtain funding in the form of a reimbursement for hours of work dedicated to employee training.

Summary sheet of the notice:

• Geo: National kiss
• Opening and expiry of the call: Next opening
• Type of aid: contribution to lost fund
• Beneficiary: Micro Enterprises, Small Enterprises, Medium Enterprises and Large Enterprises.
• Funded expenditure: Training: with the aim of providing the appropriate tools to navigate the changes imposed by the digital revolution and the need for a greener economy.
• Amount of call: The lost contribution reaches a maximum of 10 million euros per company.