NUTIKAS - Applied research in smart specialization growth areas
Purpose: The support aims to contribute to growth in the research-intensity of the Estonian economy, supporting collaboration between R&D institutions and companies. Furthermore, the support will help to raise the capabilities of R&D institutions to carry out applied research needed for business in smart specialization growth areas.
Financed Activities: Applied research in collaboration with national R&D organizations or product development activities.
Applicants: EE registered companies
Maximum Project Duration: 36 months, not exceeding 31.08.2022.
Maximum Grant: 2M Euros
Funding Rate: 25-70%, depending on the project activities and size of the applicant.
Additional information: program website
The program overview is presented in this document.
Product development support
Purpose: The aim is to support investments in product development activities in order to boost the development of novel products and services.
Financed Activities: Product development activities
Applicants: EE registered companies with the principal activity of the applicant covers manufacturing and average revenue of two last years of 200 000.
Maximum Project Duration: 36 months.
Maximum Grant: 500 000 Euros
Funding Rate: 25-45%, depending on the size of the applicant.
Additional information: program website
The program overview is presented in this document.
Digital diagnostics
Purpose: The objective of the grant is to support the preparation of diagnostics for the digitization and automation of manufacturing and mining and quarrying.
Financed Activities: carrying out digital diagnostics
Applicants: EE registered companies with the principal activity of the applicant covers manufacturing and mining and quarrying and average revenue of two last years of 200 000
Maximum Project Duration: 6 months.
Maximum Grant: up to 15 000 Euros, depending on the sales revenue of the applicant
Funding Rate: 70%
Additional information: program website
Enterprise development program
Purpose: The aim is to support well-thought-out development, improved action planning, innovation implementation and product development. In the course of the development program, each participating enterprise will launch new products and services that are more profitable than their predecessors.
Financed Activities: Activities agreed on the company’s development plan
Applicants: EE registered industrial enterprises and companies in the smart specialization field.
Maximum Project Duration: 36 months.
Maximum Grant 500 000 Euros
Funding Rate: 25-45%, depending on the size of the applicant.
Additional information: program website
The program overview is presented in this document.
Innovation voucher
Purpose: The innovation voucher enables a small and medium-sized entrepreneur (SME) who is cooperating with a higher education institute, test laboratory, or intellectual property experts, to develop innovative solutions for development obstacles, carry out tests with new materials, gather knowledge on technologies, conduct studies in intellectual property databases, etc.
Financed Activities: Consultations regarding product development, tests, and industrial experiments, legal protection consultations, etc.
Applicants: EE registered SMEs
Maximum Project Duration: 12 months.
Maximum Grant: 6 000 Euros
Funding Rate: 80%
Additional information: program website
Development voucher
Purpose: The development voucher is essentially a supporting measure for preliminary research. The results of the development voucher should enable the entrepreneur to gain comprehensive knowledge on whether their development idea has the potential necessary for continuing the development process in other stages.
Financed Activities: Consultations regarding product development, tests, and industrial experiments, legal protection consultations, etc.
Applicants: EE registered SMEs
Maximum Project Duration: 18 months.
Maximum Grant: 35 000 Euros
Funding Rate: 70%
Additional information: https://www.eas.ee/teenus/arendusosak/
Large investor support scheme
Purpose: The aim of the support scheme is the active involvement of large investors in the economy of Estonia through technology investments, which contribute to the growth of productivity and export potential of a company, the increase of the added value of products, the opening of new market opportunities, and create conditions for the establishment of higher value-adding jobs.
Financed Activities: Purchasing and setting up assets
Applicants: A company registered in the Estonian commercial register whose principal activity, or project to which the support is applied, belongs to the areas of activity indicated in section C “Manufacturing” in EMTAK 2008 with the turnover of 50M Euros.
Maximum Project Duration: 24 months.
Maximum Grant: 1M Euros
Funding Rate: 10%
Additional information: program website
