Nearly EUR 3 million from the Norwegian Financial Mechanism Programme 2014–2021 ‘Business Development, Innovation and SMEs’ is available for the implementation of information and communication technologies
On 4 October, an innovation breakfast for business representatives was organised by the Innovation Agency Lithuania. During this event, the call for proposals in the field of information and communication technologies under the Norwegian Financial Mechanism Programme 2014–2021 ‘Business Development, Innovation and SMEs’ was presented. This latest call under the programme focuses on the automation, robotisation and digitisation of production processes in small and medium-sized enterprises.The Innovation Agency Lithuania, which performs the functions of the programme operator, plans to launch the call for proposals in December this year. The planned amount of support for this call is EUR 2.99 million, and the possible amount of funding per applicant ranges from EUR 200,000 to EUR 600,000. As in previous calls for proposals under the Norwegian Financial Mechanism Programme 2014–2021, priority will be given to bilateral projects, i.e. where the project involves a partner registered in Norway.