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Incentive Systems | Portugal 2030 | Non-Refundable Grants for Businesses

01 07 2024 Tax Benefits | PT2030
Incentive Systems | Portugal 2030 | Non-Refundable Grants for Businesses

// Portugal 2030 - Discover the Most Relevant Financial Incentive Systems for Portuguese Companies in 2024

PRODUCTIVE INNOVATION

// SICE - Productive Innovation 

Industry | Tourism | Services

  • Objective: Stimulate business innovation by improving the productive capacities of SMEs, creating new goods/services, increasing qualified employment, and promoting high added-value sustainable and tradable goods.
  • Minimum Eligible Investment: €300,000.
  • Eligible Expenses: Creation of new establishments, increasing the capacity of existing ones, diversification of production to include new products, and fundamental changes in current production processes.
  • Maximum Financing Rate: Up to 60%. 

SI - Research and Technological Development

// SI - Research and Technological Development 

Industry | Services

  • Objective: Increase business investment in R&D to promote knowledge-intensive economic activities and create value based on innovation.
  • Minimum Eligible Investment: €150,000.
  • Eligible Expenses: Technical staff, patent acquisition, raw materials, service procurement, specific software and equipment, promotion and dissemination of results, international travel and stays, SGIDI certification, indirect costs.
  • Maximum Financing Rate: Up to 80%. 

SME Qualification

// SICE - SME Qualification

Digitalisation | Sustainability | Qualification | Digital Transformation

  • Objective: Empower SMEs for the qualification and digitalisation of business models, adopting advanced strategies and integrating into global value chains.
  • Minimum Eligible Investment: €200,000
  • Eligible Expenses:  Organisational innovation, management and logistics, digitalisation, brand creation, product/service/process development, industrial property protection, quality and certification, sustainability, knowledge transfer.
  • Maximum Financing Rate: Up to 50% Non-Refundable

SICE - Internationalisation

// SICE - SME Internationalisation

Internationalisation | New Markets | Competitiveness

  • Objective: Strengthen SME capacity for internationalisation, promoting increased exports and enhancing intangible competitiveness factors.
  • Minimum Eligible Investment: (awaiting publication of the notice)
  • Eligible Expenses: International fairs, market prospecting, specialised consulting, international marketing campaigns, hiring new technical staff, quality certification, digital economy, creation and registration of new brands.
  • Maximum Financing Rate: 40%. 

Productive Innovation - RCI

// RCI - Productive Innovation

Industry | Tourism | Services

  • ObjectiveStimulate business innovation by improving the productive capacities of SMEs, creating new goods/services, increasing qualified employment, and promoting high added-value sustainable and tradable goods.
  • Minimum Eligible Investment: €25,000,000.
  • Eligible Expenses: Construction, purchase of new machinery and equipment, energy efficiency, renewable energy, software, diagnostics, audits, marketing plans, and engineering projects.
  • Maximum Financing Rate: Up to 40%

Research and Technological Development - RCI

// RCI - Research and Technological Development 

Industry | Services

  • Objective: Increase business investment in R&D to promote knowledge-intensive economic activities and create value based on innovation.
  • Minimum Eligible Investment: €10,000,000.
  • Eligible Expenses: Technical staff, patent acquisition, raw materials, service procurement, specific software and equipment, promotion and dissemination of results, international travel and stays, SGIDI certification, indirect costs.
  • Maximum Financing Rate: Up to 80%

Territorial Base Incentives

// SIBT - Territorial Base Incentives Systems

Industry | Services | Tourism

  • Objective: Support small-scale investments for the creation, expansion, or modernisation of micro and small enterprises, contributing to employment and the modernisation of local economies.
  • Minimum Eligible Investment: €25,000.
  • Eligible Expenses: Acquisition of machinery and equipment, technology transfer, market studies and plans, participation in fairs, consulting services, product/process certification, building construction, indirect costs.
  • Maximum Financing Rate: Up to 60%

Summary Sheet

Hiring Highly Qualified Human Resources

// RHAQ - Highly Qualified Human Resources

Industry | Services | Tourism | Agribusiness

  • Objective: Encourage the creation of sustainable and quality jobs, enhancing interaction between companies and scientific and technological infrastructures.
  • Investment: Salaries between €1,543.88 and  €3,667.94 (monthly) up to a maximum of 36 months. 
  • Eligible Expenses: Salaries and social charges for qualification levels 6 to 8, with defined minimum and maximum values.
  • Maximum Financing Rate: Up to 50%

 

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