New Call: Innovative Machinery (Nuovo bando Macchinari Innovativi)
Supports southern Italian small and medium-sized enterprises with subsidized grants and soft loans for industrial machinery upgrades.
The Nuovo bando Macchinari Innovativi, administered by Italy's Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy (MIMIT) through Invitalia, supports manufacturing investment programs in Italy's less-developed southern regions — Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Puglia, and Sicilia. The measure targets Industria 4.0 digital transformation using enabling technologies (Impresa 4.0 plan) and circular-economy …
Capital subsidy plus zero-interest soft loan covering 75% of eligible costs for Italian southern-region SME investments of EUR 400,000–3,000,000 in Industria 4.0 machinery and circular-economy production equipment.
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