Implementing Innovation in SMEs within Local Action Group (LAG) Territories

Q: Grant amount

€15,000 to €102,500. The grant cannot exceed 100% of the applicant's average annual net sales revenue for 2023, 2024 and 2025. Support is provided under the de minimis regime. The total procedure budget is €19,976,187.59.

Q: Eligible costs

Machinery, installations and equipment; Off-the-shelf or custom software solutions; Patents, utility models and industrial designs; Licences required to implement the innovation. The total cost of patents, utility models, industrial designs and licences cannot exceed €50,000.

Procedure BG16RFPR001-1.011 under the Competitiveness and Innovation in Enterprises Programme 2021–2027 — up to €102,500 to implement a new or improved product, service or business process

Upcoming intakeIntake opens: 14 January 2027BG16RFPR001-1.011 · Updated: 2 October 2026

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Who the procedure is for

The funding targets micro, small and medium-sized enterprises planning to implement a new or improved product, service or business process within an eligible Local Action Group (LAG) territory with approved complementary funding under the programme.

75%

maximum aid intensity

but no more than the rate set for the respective LAG

Grant amount

Minimum

€15,000

Maximum

€102,500

The grant cannot exceed 100% of the applicant's average annual net sales revenue for 2023, 2024 and 2025. Support is provided under the de minimis regime. The total procedure budget is €19,976,187.59.

Who can apply?

Micro, small and medium enterprises registered no later than 31.12.2023

With a registered office within an eligible LAG territory

Having operated within the same territory in 2023, 2024 and 2025

That will implement the project within that territory

Minimum average annual net revenue (2023–2025)

Enterprise category	Average annual net revenue
Micro and small enterprise	≥ BGN 50,000
Medium enterprise	≥ BGN 200,000

Micro enterprises are eligible only in settlements within the designated urban municipalities included in the LAG's scope.

Eligible costs

Machinery, installations and equipment

Off-the-shelf or custom software solutions

Patents, utility models and industrial designs

Licences required to implement the innovation

The total cost of patents, utility models, industrial designs and licences cannot exceed €50,000.

What projects are suitable?

Innovation in informatics and ICT

Mechatronics, automation and microelectronics

Technologies for healthy living, bioeconomy and biotechnology

New technologies in the creative and recreational industries

Clean technologies, circular and low-carbon economy

The innovation may be new to the company itself, but it must lead to the real implementation of a new or significantly improved product, service or business process.

Application deadlines

Intake 1: 10 July 2026 – 14 September 2026 at 16:30Closed
Intake 2: 14 January 2027 – 15 March 2027 at 16:30Upcoming intake

Implementation period

up to 12 months

Official source

The full conditions and application documents are published on the portal of the Ministry of Innovation and Digital Transformation. Applications are submitted entirely online in ISUN with a qualified electronic signature.

View the procedure on mig.government.bg

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Contact us and we'll check whether your business is within an eligible LAG territory and how to prepare a project for the second intake.

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