04 May 2023

Creative business

Virtual Tours for SMEs

As part of the measure Creative Business Fund, promoted by the Ministry of Economic Development, assistance is financed which involve collaboration between creative enterprises and SMEs in other sectors, for the purchase of specialized services in the creative sector.

Thanks to this programme of incentives, from September micro, small and medium Italian companies will be able to demand a lost contribution, in the form of public voucher, to purchase services such as virtual tour and rendering tour.

Size 3 among the companies of the creative sector enabled to supply these services, can support all SMEs interested in purchasing a virtual tour service and submitting the request for contributions.

Let's see together what it is and how to access incentives.

Creative Enterprise Fund: What Is

The Creative Business Fund is the national incentive that finance projects in the creative sector. Within the fund, with reference to Chapter III of the Interministerial Decree of 19 November 2021, funding for lost funds is provided for support SMEs in each sector in the purchase of specialized services provided by creative micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.

Funded initiatives

The measure finances all initiatives aimed at introducing innovations into the company product, service, process and support of organizational and commercial growth processes through the acquisition of specialist services in the creative sector.

Specialist services must be subject to a contract signed after submitting the application for relief and within three months of the concessions.

In addition, they must cover the following strategic areas:

marketing and brand development actions;
industrial design and design;
increase the identity value of the company profile;
technological innovations in the areas of conservation, use and marketing of products of particular craft, artistic and creative value.

Amount of financing

Facilities have the form of a lost contribution in the form of a voucher for a cover up to 80% of expenses and a maximum amount of 10,000,00€.

To whom is addressed

Access to funding micro, small and medium-sized enterprises operating in any sector and participating in projects integrated with creative enterprises.

Modes and terms of submission of applications

Applications for assistance must be submitted in Italian only through the computer platform made available on the Agency’s website (www.invitalia.it), section “Elenco incentives”, “Fondo creative enterprises”.

The application presentation process is divided into 2 stages:

filling out the application: from 10.00 am 6 September 2022
Sending the application: from 10.00 am 22 September 2022

Application assessment criteria

Applications for facilitation are assessed by the Agency according to the chronological order of presentation, on the basis of the date and time of sending telematics.

Resources

Interministerial Decree 19 November 2021 - Fund for small and medium-sized creative enterprises

Directory Decree 30 May 2022 - Terms and procedures for submitting applications for facilitation

How to proceed

Dimensione3 can support all interested companies to purchase digital tour services by taking care of the entire application procedure.