Deadline Date: February 27, 2026
The Digitalise Your SME grant empowers micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises to upgrade their operations through digital transformation, helping them become more resilient, efficient, and competitive in a global marketplace.
Enterprises in Europe now compete on a global scale, making it essential to adopt the latest technologies to deliver superior products and services. The focus areas of this initiative include promoting entrepreneurship, facilitating the economic exploitation of new ideas, fostering the creation of new firms through business incubators, promoting innovative and smart economic transformation, enhancing regional ICT connectivity, and reaping the benefits of digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations, and public authorities.
The Digitalise Your SME grant scheme is designed to help micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises part-finance investments that digitalise their operations, thereby improving resilience, efficiency, productivity, and customer experience. By supporting investments in new digital capabilities and digitalised processes such as product and process design, end-to-end procurement, supply chain management, distribution, and after-sales services, this initiative aims to strengthen the competitiveness of enterprises in the European market.
Administered by the Measures and Support Division within the Ministry responsible for Union Funds, acting as an Intermediate Body under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the grant scheme operates under the 2021–2027 programming period. The budget allocated for this initiative is €5,000,000, with individual grants ranging from €10,000 to €128,400, including an additional 7% flat rate for indirect costs related to the investment. The program will remain active until 31 December 2026, subject to fund availability.
Eligible applicants include micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises engaged in qualifying economic activities, irrespective of legal form, including start-ups that meet the same criteria. Undertakings without legal personality must register under the Second Schedule of the Civil Code (CAP 16 of the Laws of Malta).
By investing in digital transformation, SMEs can unlock new economic opportunities, implement intelligent work and production processes, improve customer acquisition, and create more effective business networks. The initiative underscores the strategic importance of digitalisation as a driver for future growth and competitiveness in a globalised economy.
For more information, visit Fondi.eu.
