Digital Tools for SMEs B’

Digital Tools for SMEs B' - The programme

The purpose of the Programme "Digital Tools for SMEs B'" is to strengthen the digital maturity of the country's small and medium-sized enterprises that operate in a wide range of sectors of the economy.

Through the Programme, the participating enterprises can receive support in order to:

• modernise their production, commercial and administrative operation,
• upgrade the way they communicate and cooperate and introduce new forms of hybrid work (hybrid workplace),
• digitise electronic transactions with customers and partners, including e-commerce,
• raise the level of security and trust in electronic transactions, through the use of new digital products and services.

For this purpose, the Programme "Digital Tools for SMEs B'" will provide vouchers to be used for acquiring new digital tools, through purchase or leasing.

Digital Tools for SMEs B' - Who it concerns

Under the Programme "Digital Tools for SMEs B'", support is given to existing Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, as defined in Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC, for which all of the following conditions are met:

1. They have their registered office or a branch in Greek Territory with a Greek tax identification number (AFM).
2. They are active on the date the Funding application to the Programme is submitted.
3. They have not received aid in a previous round of the Programme "DIGITAL TOOLS FOR SMEs".
4. They operate in an eligible activity.
5. They are a legal entity (Société Anonyme, Limited Liability Company, General Partnership or Limited Partnership, Private Company (I.K.E.), Sole Proprietorship, Social Cooperative Enterprise, Cooperative) or a Sole Proprietorship, or they practise a liberal profession, and they keep single-entry or double-entry books.

The beneficiaries of the Programme fall into the following distinct categories:

• Notaries
• Court Bailiffs
• SMEs in affected areas
• General Category of SMEs

Program budget

The budget (Public Expenditure) of the Programme (Digital Tools for SMEs B') amounts to 42,000,000.00 euros. The Programme is funded by resources of the Recovery and Resilience Facility for the RRF Action entitled: "Digital Transformation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises".

The budget will be made available through repeated rounds and is split into individual categories, as follows:

Amount and intensity of aid

Under the Programme, vouchers can be used, depending on the category of each enterprise, as follows:

Eligible Actions and Expenses

Under the Programme, the supply of digital products and services, as well as of related supplementary services and equipment, through a voucher system, is eligible for subsidy.

Every beneficiary of Categories 1, 2, 3 or 4 may be funded for the purchase of one or more "subsidised solutions".

Each "subsidised solution" is invoiced and paid in one transaction (one document). Part of the payment of each transaction will be made by using / redeeming vouchers of the Programme (public funding). So that more subsidised solutions can be bought (through multiple transactions / invoices), the corresponding aid may be split into more than one voucher (which in total may not exceed the total subsidy value that corresponds to the beneficiary).

Purchase of subsidised digital solutions

In brief, the procedure for buying subsidised solutions follows these steps:

1. Receiving the vouchers

2. Choosing products – services and suppliers

3. Ordering products – services – Reserving the vouchers

4. Paying for the product – redeeming the vouchers

5. Paying for the product – redeeming the vouchers

The beneficiary may cancel the transaction after the vouchers have been redeemed.

The start of the eligibility of expenses is the date the call for funding applications to the Programme "Digital Tools for SMEs B" was issued (28/11/2024), on condition that the other requirements of the Programme are met, and above all that both the digital product / service and the supplier, and a voucher for the potential beneficiary, are approved.

Important dates

Duration and milestones of the Programme "Digital Tools for SMEs B'"

The time milestones for Potential Beneficiaries and Suppliers are as follows:

Suppliers:

• Applications by Suppliers to take part in the Programme may be submitted on the digital platform from Thursday 28 November 2024 to Friday 02 May 2025.

• Requests for approval of new digital products and services by the Programme are submitted by already approved suppliers from Thursday 28 November 2024 to Friday 06 June 2025.

Digital Tools for SMEs B' - Round #1

• Submission of funding applications by beneficiaries: From Monday 16 December 2024 up to Friday 03 January 2025 at 17:00.

• Deadlines for purchases by approved beneficiaries:

  • Issue and reservation of vouchers by suppliers: From Monday 20 January 2025 to Friday 14 February 2025.

  • Redemption of vouchers: By Friday 28 February 2025.

  • End of the transitional period (cooling off period) during which only certain cases of voucher redemption are allowed (by way of exception): Friday 14 March 2025.

Digital Tools for SMEs B' - Round #2
The 2nd round of the Programme will be activated for some or all of the categories of enterprises, provided there is budget available in the corresponding categories.

• Submission of funding applications by beneficiaries: From Monday 17 February 2025 up to Friday 07 March 2025 at 17:00.

• Deadlines for purchases by approved beneficiaries:

  • Issue and reservation of vouchers by suppliers: From Monday 24 March 2025 to Friday 18 April 2025.

  • Redemption of vouchers: By Friday 02 May 2025.

  • End of the transitional period (cooling off period) during which only certain cases of voucher redemption are allowed (by way of exception): Friday 16 May 2025.

Digital Tools for SMEs B' - Round #3
The 3rd round of the Programme will be activated for some or all of the categories of enterprises, provided there is budget available in the corresponding categories.

• Submission of funding applications by beneficiaries: From Tuesday 22 April 2025 up to Friday 09 May 2025 at 17:00.

• Deadline for purchases by approved beneficiaries:

  • Issue and reservation of vouchers by suppliers: From Monday 26 May 2025 to Friday 20 June 2025.

  • Redemption of vouchers: By Monday 30 June 2025.

  • End of the transitional period (cooling off period) during which only certain cases of voucher redemption are allowed (by way of exception): Tuesday 15 July 2025.

End of the Programme:
The date for completing payments of every kind and for completing the Programme is Monday 15 September 2025

Useful files

28/11/2024

Digital Tools for SMEs B' - Call of the Action (in Greek)

28/11/2024

Digital Tools for SMEs B' - Eligible expenses (in Greek)