ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Two hundred million euros to accelerate the investments of Italian SMEs in artificial intelligence. It is the new measure of Simest, a company of the Cdp Group for the internationalization of enterprises, which will be available from 21 September and aims to support the digital transformation and international competitiveness of the production system.
The measure, reads in a note, provides for funding up to 8 years, with two years of preammortisation, a fund contribution lost up to 10%, a minimum rate of 0.37% and an advance up to 50% of the amount financed. The intervention is funded through the Rotative Fund 394/81, managed by Simest in agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and is part of the “Investiments IA” section of the instrument “Digital and Ecological Transition”.
Italian companies can access it with an international vocation that achieve at least 3% of turnover abroad or that operate as suppliers of exporting companies. The funding will support IA systems to optimize production and logistics, software and platforms, development and customization of models, data management, training, cybersecurity, adaptation to the AI Act and activities of artificial intelligence governance.
“Artificial intelligence today represents an important accelerator of the competitiveness of enterprises that want to grow on international markets,” says Simest’s CEO Regina Corradini
“It is no longer just a frontier of innovation, but a concrete tool to increase productivity, efficiency and capacity to create value.” The aim, adds the ad, is to “accompani the Italian companies that export and all the enterprises of their subsidiaries, with focus Pmi, in a new phase of industrial transformation, supporting investments that strengthen Made in Italy and consolidate its presence in the global supply chains”. The measure therefore aims to promote not only digitization, but also increased productivity, penetration on foreign markets and strengthening of Italian subsidiaries.
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