Haven’t had the opportunity to invest in your business’s digital transition yet? There’s a new PRR measure that allows you to receive support of up to 2,000 euros for the digitalization of businesses in the services, restaurant, and similar areas. PONTUAL is one of the accredited suppliers of the new Digital Transition Services Catalog.
What if you could consult an online catalog of services to digitalize your company, choosing according to your needs, supplier preferences, and business growth objectives?
This is the premise of the new Digital Transition Services Catalog (CSTD), a recently launched measure under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) aimed at supporting micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in their digital transition processes. Beneficiaries can enjoy vouchers worth up to 2,000 euros in areas such as:
- Digital Marketing: services aimed at attracting new business and promoting the digital presence or developing the online identity of companies;
- Collaborative Work and Smart Business: services aimed at increasing business efficiency through the adoption of technology in their processes and/or increasing the use/capture of data for their businesses;
- Supply and Logistics: implementation of technologies aimed at improving the efficiency of supply chain management and the logistics area of companies;
- Customer Management and Relationship: services aimed at creating and managing the relationship of companies with their customers.
- Safer Business: Cybersecurity solutions that enhance company protection;
- Digital Markets: companies joining and/or establishing a presence in digital markets to expand sales channels and reach new customers;
- Digital Payments: services that streamline and facilitate digital payment methods, improving customer experience;
- Hosting Services: services that include hosting solutions in data centers for digital applications.
It is important to note that companies can access CSTD services with a higher value, provided they cover the amount not covered by the support.
The measure is intended for companies in sectors such as automobile trade and maintenance (CAE 45), wholesale and retail trade (CAE 46 and 47), restaurants and similar (CAE 56), travel agencies and tour operators (CAE 79), computer and personal and household goods repair (CAE 95), and other personal service activities (CAE 96).
So, if your company falls into one of these sectors, you can take advantage of the CSTD support. We will explain how to proceed to benefit from this measure.
How to Apply for CSTD Services
The implementation of CSTD services is carried out through Digital Commerce Accelerators – a project created under the PRR consisting of 25 entities spread across the entire national territory, aimed at closely supporting companies in the digital transformation of their businesses through training and mentoring actions.
In turn, the accelerators are made up of consortia of business associations. These are the entities that entrepreneurs interested in accessing the Digital Catalog services should contact to proceed with their program enrollment:
– Portuguese Confederation of Commerce and Services (CCP), leader of the Northern Region Consortium;
– Business Council of the Center/Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Center (CEC-CCIC), leader of the Central Region Consortium;
– Portuguese Industrial Association – Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AIP-CCI), leader of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area Consortium;
– Association of Commerce, Services and Tourism of the Beja District (ACSTDB), leader of the Alentejo Region Consortium;
– Association of Entrepreneurs of Quarteira and Vilamoura (AEQV), leader of the Algarve Region Consortium
– Commercial and Industrial Association of Funchal, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Madeira (ACIF-CCIM), leader of the Autonomous Region of Madeira Consortium;
– Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ponta Delgada, Business Association of the Islands of São Miguel and Santa Maria (CCIPD), leader of the Autonomous Region of the Azores Consortium.
Subsequently, the Accelerators will be responsible for supporting the candidate companies through actions that include the preparation of digital maturity diagnostics and the promotion of the Digital Transition Services Catalog and its respective service packages and accredited service providers. It should be noted that candidate companies do not need to be members of any of the entities listed above.
PONTUAL’s mission is to help companies in their digital transformation processes and support initiatives that promote the strengthening of skills in the Portuguese business sector. Thus, we are also one of the accredited suppliers listed in the PRR’s Digital Transition Services Catalog.
Our offering in the Digital Transition Services Catalog consists of services in areas such as Digital Activation and Web Services, Cybersecurity, Customer Relationship Management, and Commercial Team Management, among others.
Do you want to be one of the 30,000 companies supported by the Digital Commerce Accelerators and modernize your business through the Digital Transition Services Catalog? Contact the consortium in your region to learn more, or alternatively, contact one of the entities responsible for these initiatives:
Directorate-General for Economic Activities (DGAE): prr@dgae.gov.pt
IAPMEI, I.P. – Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation: info@iapmei.pt | 808 201 201 or 213 836 237
