Description
The Call aims to boost the investment propensity of the productive system by attracting and developing new investments capable of acting as a driver for the consolidation of the local entrepreneurial fabric and supporting all production supply chains. In this context, interventions may be supported to promote productive investments and industrial conversion, as well as the requalification and reconversion of disused industrial areas.
Call A aims to:
• incentivize investments by companies not yet active in Piedmont;
• attract Piedmontese companies that have relocated production but intend to re-establish themselves in the regional territory;
• consolidate and root companies already present, by supporting a new investment that is functionally different from the existing one;
• incentivize requalification interventions on disused production sites.
Final recipients of this Call who carry out an investment consistent with the above guidelines will be required to achieve a minimum employment increase, determined according to company size.
Therefore, the investment project must generate a minimum employment increase that materializes after the application submission date and by the project completion date, as follows:
• Micro-enterprises: 1 ULA (Annual Work Unit)
• Small enterprises: 2 ULA
• Medium-sized enterprises: 3 ULA
• Mid-cap companies: 5 ULA
Limited to SMEs, there is the possibility of accessing the additional Call B, aimed at:
• supporting the employment increase generated by projects financed under Call A.
Beneficiaries
SMEs and mid-cap companies with an active industrial or logistics production process that fall into one of the following categories:
a. companies not yet active in Piedmont that intend to make a new investment in Piedmont;
b. companies formerly present in Piedmont that intend to re-establish themselves through a new investment;
c. companies already active in Piedmont that intend to make a new initial investment in the regional territory.
Investments Call A
The following interventions are eligible:
• For companies not yet active in Piedmont or intending to re-establish themselves in the regional territory (letters a. and b. of section 2.1 of the Call): investments aimed at setting up new production facilities for goods or for services that are functional and strictly linked to industrial activity.
• For companies already active in Piedmont: investments aimed at: i) creating a new local unit; ii) expanding the capacity of an existing local unit, understood as new square footage actually used for production purposes; iii) diversifying the current production of goods or services that are functional and strictly linked to industrial activity.
Final recipients of this Call who carry out an investment consistent with the above guidelines will be required to achieve a minimum employment increase, determined according to company size. By virtue of this obligation, limited to SMEs, there is the possibility of accessing the additional Call activated under the same measure (Call B), aimed at supporting the employment increase generated by projects financed under Call A.
Therefore, the investment project must generate a minimum employment increase that materializes after the application submission date and by the project completion date, as follows:
• Micro-enterprises: 1 ULA
• Small enterprises: 2 ULA
• Medium-sized enterprises: 3 ULA
• Mid-cap companies: 5 ULA
Eligible projects must have the following minimum amounts (net of VAT):
• Micro and small enterprises: € 150,000;
• Medium-sized enterprises: € 300,000;
• Mid-cap companies: € 750,000.
The maximum amount of eligible costs is set at € 3,000,000.00 (excluding VAT).
Call B
The aid (grant) may have a total amount not exceeding € 200,000.00, as it is granted under the "de minimis" regime, and will be calculated with reference to the hirings linked to the investment project submitted under this Call, with the option to request up to € 25,000.00 for each additional ULA.
"New employment" means the difference between the annual work units (hereinafter "ULA") recorded at the application submission date, referring to the previous 12 months, and the ULA recorded at the project completion date, referring to the previous 12 months.
Please note that the following are not considered new employment:
• the stabilization of fixed-term contracts or the hiring of workers from companies linked in any form (natural person/legal entity) to the applicant company;
• apprenticeship and work-training contracts, collaborators, temporary agency workers, and VAT-registered professionals;
• the replacement of personnel already hired who have terminated an existing employment relationship (e.g., retirements, dismissals, etc.).
Conversely, the following count toward the calculation of additional ULA: the conversion, where applicable, of apprenticeship and work-training contracts, collaborators, temporary agency workers, and VAT-registered professionals into fixed-term or permanent contracts.
The employment level achieved must be maintained for at least 36 months following receipt of the grant under this Call, in application of Article 65, paragraph 1, of Regulation (EU) No 2021/1060.
Incentive
The aid may cover up to 100% of the eligible project costs and is divided as follows:
• Subsidized loan (F): For SMEs and mid-cap companies, up to 100% of the project value, with PR FESR resources covering 70% at zero interest and banking resources covering the remaining 30%.
• Non-repayable contribution (C): Only for SMEs, a non-repayable contribution quantified on the basis of the available ESL (net of the ESL of the subsidized loan) and within the limits set out in the table in section 2.12.4 of the Call. The contribution is recognized and disbursed following checks on the final documentation only if the quantified amount exceeds € 500.00.
