Portugal 2020 Applications to the Companies Incentive System

Portugal 2020 Applications to the Companies Incentive System

We call your attention for the following competitions open for the Companies Incentive System – Competitiveness and Internationalization Command, occurring between 6-03-2016 and 13-05-2016:

Notification N.º 03/SI/2016 – SME Qualification Incentive System

• Goals and Priorities

Projects aiming qualification actions of SME in immaterial areas with the purpose of promoting the competitiveness of SMEs and their capacity to respond in the global market, namely investments of:

• Strengthening SME organization and management capacities
• Specific qualification of the assets in areas relevant to the strategy of innovation, internationalization and modernization of companies,

 

• Operation Tipology

Individual projects to qualify SME strategies that contribute to increase their competitiveness, flexibility and responsiveness to the global market in the following immaterial areas of competitiveness:

 

• Organisational innovation and management
• Digital Economy and Information and Communication Technologies (TIC)
• Design and brands creation
• Development and engineering of products, services and processes
• Industrial Property Protection – patents, inventions, utility models and designs;
• Quality
• Knowledge Transmission
• Logistics and Distribution
• Eco-innovation
• Vocational Training

Aviso N.º 04/SI/2016 – Incentive System ” SME Internationalization”

• Goals and Priorities:

 

Extend the export base by increasing the number of new exporting companies, or increasing the international sales volume of the companies that already export, namely projects which:

• Reinforce entrepreneurship training for SMEs to internationalization Increase the specific qualification of the assets in areas relevant to the strategy of innovation, internationalization and modernization of companies
• Increase the specific qualification of the assets in areas relevant to the strategy of innovation, internationalization and modernization of companies,

 

• Operations Tipology

 

Individual SME internationalization projects targeting the following areas are eligible:

• Knowledge of foreign markets;
• Web presence, through digital economy;
• Development and promotion of international brand;
• Prospection and presence in international markets;
• International Marketing;
• The introduction of a new method of organization in commercial practices or in the external relations;
• Prospecting and presence in international markets;
• Specific certifications for external markets
• Vocational Training.

Important to refer that for the both competitions the geographic area and incentive profile is the same, namely:

 

Geographical area of ​​application:

All Regions NUTS II from Europe (North, Center, Lisbon, Alentejo and Algarve).

Incentive

The minimum limite of expenditure elegible is 25 000 euros.

The incentives, non refundable, are 45%, with he exception of the ones applicable on the PO Regional of Lisbon, which will be maximum, 40%.