Italy opens €150m cyber and cloud vouchers; €90m asked in a day

Italy opens €150m cyber and cloud vouchers; €90m asked in a day

10 November 2026: Italy's Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (Mimit) has opened a €150 million voucher scheme that pays half of what a small business or a self-employed professional spends on cybersecurity and cloud services, up to €20,000 each. Requests worth €90 million arrived in little more than a day, so the window that is meant to run to 20 January 2027 may close long before it.

Not yet independently verified. We have read the ministry's two press releases, not the decree or the application rules, so the list of eligible suppliers and the exact cost categories are not checked here. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

Who can apply and what the voucher pays

The measure is open to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and to self-employed workers, including liberi professionisti, anywhere in Italy. It is a non-repayable grant of 50% of eligible costs, capped at €20,000 per beneficiary, for a spending plan of at least €4,000. A firm that wants the full €20,000 therefore needs a plan of €40,000 or more.

Of the €150 million, more than €71 million is reserved for projects carried out in the regions of the Mezzogiorno, the south of the country.

Eligible purchases are cybersecurity hardware and software and cloud services, bought from enabled suppliers, that introduce solutions that are new, or more advanced and secure than those the business already uses. Renewing what is already in place on the same terms does not appear to qualify on the ministry's wording.

A queue that filled in 24 hours

Applications are made through the online procedure on the Mimit website. The desk opened on Tuesday 10 November and accepts applications until 12:00 on 20 January 2027, "salvo esaurimento anticipato delle risorse", unless the money runs out first.

On 11 November the ministry said requests had reached €90 million in a little over 24 hours, 60% of the budget. Minister Adolfo Urso said: "La risposta immediata e significativa di imprese e professionisti dimostra quanto sia avvertita dal nostro sistema produttivo l'esigenza di rafforzare la sicurezza digitale". When it opened the desk he had tied the scheme to "gli attacchi informatici di questi giorni", the attacks of recent days.

The ministry has not said whether applications are ranked by arrival time or whether a waiting list is kept once the €150 million is committed.

What a supplier or an SME should prepare

The rule that matters most is the supplier: the voucher pays only for products and services bought from enabled providers, so an SME should confirm that its chosen vendor is on the scheme's list before it signs. Cloud and security vendors selling into Italy, and their resellers, have a short window in which customers will ask about eligibility.

A business that has not applied yet should assume the remaining €60 million could go within days. The plan has to reach €4,000 to be valid, and a quote that bundles several services from one enabled supplier is the simplest way to get there.

Our catalogue lists 970 cloud computing service companies, several of them with Italian offices.

Sources

• Mimit: Cybersecurity e cloud, al via i voucher del Mimit per PMI e autonomi, 10 November 2026
• Mimit: Cybersecurity e cloud, richieste per 90 mln € in 24 ore per i voucher Mimit, 11 November 2026