Digital Intensification Grant Scheme

Companies Eligible for the Digital Intensification Grant Scheme

Enterprises engaged in an economic activity, irrespective of their legal form subject to the exclusions listed below. However, the following sectors will be given precedence:

  • Manufacturing industry – investment that supports the transformation operations and transition to Industry 4.0 by optimising the use of existing technologies and exploitation of emerging technologies and trends such as digital twinning, predictive maintenance, track-and-trace, and modular design amongst others. Investments in digitalisation can thus help such enterprise to improve their efficiency, productivity and customer experience by ensuring they have the right capabilities that is central to their operating model and matching them with a strong skill sets in analytics and IT.
  • Tourism industry – investment that ensures that digitalisation is leveraged with a view to enhance operations by addressing not only operational logistics but exploring the possibility of analytical tools and AI to design, adapt and personalise hospitality packages and offerings that maximise client experiences and investment in digitalisation and other technologies that will also contribute towards better resource efficiencies, such as the use of water and electricity.

Exclusions from the Digital Intensification Grant Scheme

Exclusions include Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing; processing and marketing of agricultural products; manufacturing, processing and marketing of tobacco and tobacco products; Public entities not involving the carrying out of an economic activity; Energy Generation, distribution and infrastructure; Steel and coal Sector; Shipbuilding; Transport Sector; Synthetic Fibres Sector; Financial and insurance activities; Real Estate activities; Gambling and Betting Activities. 

Maximum Grant

The maximum grant value under this scheme is set at €200,000 per enterprise granted one or more digitalisation investment/s.

Eligible Costs

This Grant Scheme will support eligible enterprises to undertake the following investment costs in tangible and intangible assets in the following actions:

  • Specific Digital Solutions (as identified in the Process and Systems Review) including:
    • Hardware
    • Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and Custom Software, including subscription-based software only for 2 years
    • Other Digital Solutions
    • Installation including any training costs on the use of the specific item acquired, included in the purchase price and from the same provider.