Deadline Date: February 27, 2026
The Marketing Strategy Grant Scheme is inviting grant applications to support micro and small enterprises in developing effective marketing strategies by part-financing external services to enhance efficiency and competitiveness.
The focus areas, include promoting entrepreneurship, facilitating the economic exploitation of new ideas, fostering the creation of new firms including through business incubators, enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs, promoting job creation in SMEs, supporting innovative and smart economic transformation, strengthening regional ICT connectivity, and providing SMEs with actionable marketing plans aligned with their overall business objectives.
This scheme aims to address the limited in-house resources and competences of micro and small enterprises by enabling access to expert external services for marketing strategy development. It provides financial assistance through non-repayable grants to part-finance the costs of contracted services that help businesses promote their products or services, improve market reach, and achieve strategic business goals.
The program will remain operational until 31st December 2026, with an initial budget allocation of €500,000. The maximum grant value per enterprise is set at €10,000. Eligible participants include micro and small-sized enterprises actively engaged in economic activity, irrespective of legal form, and registered under the applicable legal framework if not vested with a legal personality.
For more information, visit FONDI.eu.
