The financial aid is intended for small and medium-sized enterprises established in Luxembourg.

Terms and conditions

Beneficiaries of the financial aid must satisfy the terms and conditions that apply to all types of aid for research, development and innovation.

Eligible costs

Costs associated with the following are eligible:

• the acquisition, validation and defence of patents and other intangible assets (licences, know-how and other types of intellectual property);
• the hosting of highly qualified personnel, coming from a research or knowledge dissemination organisation, or from a large enterprise, to undertake research, development and innovation tasks as part of a newly created role within the beneficiary company, without replacing other members of staff;
• advisory and innovation support services:
  • such as consultancy, assistance or training in knowledge transfer, acquisition, protection and exploitation of intangible assets, use of standards and regulations, introduction or use of innovative technologies and solutions, as well as offices, databases, cloud computing and data storage services, libraries, market research, laboratories, quality labelling, testing, experimentation and certification, with a view to developing more efficient or technologically advanced products, processes or services;
  • including those provided by research institutes and knowledge dissemination organisations, research infrastructures, testing and experimentation infrastructures or innovation clusters.

The application must be submitted before the commencement of the work.

Submitting the application

You (or your representative) must submit the application for financial aid through the online assistant available on MyGuichet.lu.

This is a procedure that requires authentication using a LuxTrust product or an electronic identity card (eID).

Supporting documents

Applications for aid must include the following information and documents:

• the name and description of the business;
• the size of the business in accordance with Annex I of Regulation (EU) No. 651/2014;
• the business's organisational chart;
• the annual financial statements for the last 2 financial years of the applicant business and, where applicable, of the single economic entity it belongs to;
• a description of the project, including its start and end dates;
• a description of the project's economic potential;
• if necessary, a description of:
  • how the aid-funded asset is operated;
  • what makes the project innovative;
  • the technological challenges of the project;
  • the economic valuation of the outcome of the project;
• the location of the project;
• the list of the project's eligible costs;
• the form and the amount of aid required for the project;
• a financing plan, which demonstrates that the applicant business has the necessary equity capital that corresponds to the financial scale of the project;
• for aid less than EUR 100,000: a declaration of honour about other de minimis aid received in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2023/2831 or Regulation (EU) 1407/2013;
• any relevant information that will allow the appropriate ministers to assess the qualities or specific features of the project or the incentive effect of the aid.

Maximum amount of financial aid

For all financial aid for SME innovation, the gross amount of the aid may not be less than EUR 1,000.

The amount of aid will be calculated on the basis of the eligible costs of the project up to the following caps:

* Provided that the total amount of financial aid granted for these innovation advisory and support services does not exceed EUR 220,000 per business over a period of 3 years.

Payment of the aid

The capital grant is paid after completion of the project.

However, one or more aid instalments may be requested after a portion of the costs for which the aid was granted is incurred.

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