Two new grants for businesses with up to 50 employees are now available from a Local Enterprise Office.
Grow Digital Voucher
The Grow Digital Voucher provides financial support to embrace digital technology.
The grant is 50% of eligible costs with a minimum of €500 to a maximum of €5,000 per application.
Businesses can be approved a maximum of two Grow Digital Voucher projects up to a maximum cumulative €5,000.
Eligible costs can include:
- E-commerce software
- Website Development
- Software for customer relationship management
- Online booking, payments or appointments
- Job tracking including field service management software.
- Order management or stock control software
- Industry specific cloud SaaS software
- Field management or workflow management software
- Electronic invoicing or electronic signature software
- Standard office software (for email, documents, spreadsheets) where not already in use
- Cyber security software
- Cloud based accounting or payroll software (if moving to the cloud for these systems)
- 3D modelling software (including building information modelling)
- Analytics software (including AI systems).
Market Explorer Grant
The Market Explorer Grant supports first time and small-scale exporters to undertake essential market research in exploring either a new geographic market for an existing product/service or an existing geographic market for a new product/service.
The amount of the grant is a maximum of €10,000 or 50% of eligible costs.
You may be eligible if you:
- Operate as a manufacturing or internationally traded services business
- Are solvent as demonstrated by Financial Statements
- Have a current tax clearance certificate from Revenue
- Are not currently clients of Enterprise Ireland or IDA
- have completed Export Accelerator or a similar LEO Exporter Programme
- have developed an internationalisation plan
- have initial small-scale exports that can be increased.
The eligible activities supported by this grant include:
- Market Research
- In Market Consultancy
- Trade Fair Attendance
- Trade Fair Exhibition
- Overseas Travel
- Subsistence