Deadline Date: November 28, 2025
The Digitalise Your SME Scheme supports enterprises seeking to strengthen their digital capabilities for improved competitiveness and long-term growth.
The focus areas of this scheme are as follows: Enterprises in Europe no longer compete just with their neighbours or even other firms in their country but with all competitors on the global marketplace. It is necessary to always be on top of the latest technologies to provide the best products and to deliver the most rewarding services. Digitalisation investment is needed to achieve such goal. The capability of an enterprise to digitalise by addressing new digital capabilities and digitalised processes is crucial for survival and future business growth. Digitalization opens up new economic opportunities. In addition, digital technologies enable new business models, intelligent work and production processes, more effective customer acquisition and better networking. This incentive seeks to assist SMEs through non-repayable Grants to part-finance investment to digitalise their operations, and hence improve their resilience, efficiency, productivity and customer experience by addressing new digital capabilities and digitalised processes such as product and process design and engineering, end-to-end procurement, supply chain/distribution and after sales.
This Grant Scheme falls under Policy Objective 1 ‘A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity’ of SFC2021 Programme 2021-2027 ‘Towards a smarter, well connected and resilient economy, a greener environment and an integrated society’, and addresses the following Policy Objective and Specific Objective: PO1: Promoting entrepreneurship, in particular by facilitating the economic exploitation of new ideas and fostering the creation of new firms, including through business incubators. A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity. RSO1.2. Reaping the benefits of digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities (ERDF).
The scheme carries an initial allocated budget of €5,000,000, including a contribution from the Malta Digital Innovation Authority. Grants range from a minimum of €10,000 to a maximum of €128,400 for eligible actions, and this includes an additional 7% flat rate to cover indirect costs. The Digitalise Your SME scheme will remain active until 31 December 2026 or until funds are exhausted.
The scheme provides non-repayable financial support to SMEs aiming to adopt digital technologies that enhance efficiency, productivity and customer experience. It focuses on strengthening digital processes such as product design, engineering, procurement, distribution and after-sales operations. These investments are intended to build resilience and position enterprises for future competitiveness in a global market where digital readiness is essential.
Eligibility for this scheme is open to Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises engaged in an eligible economic activity. Start-ups classified as Micro and Small Enterprises may also apply. Undertakings without legal personality are required to be registered under the Second Schedule of the Civil Code of Malta to participate in the scheme.
For more information, visit FONDI.eu.
