Italy opens a €150m cloud and cybersecurity voucher for small firms

Italy opens a €150m cloud and cybersecurity voucher for small firms

16 October 2026: Italy has opened its Voucher cloud e cybersecurity, a €150 million grant scheme that pays up to half of what small and medium-sized businesses and self-employed professionals spend on adopting cloud and cybersecurity tools more advanced than the ones they already use, up to €20,000 each. Applications can be drafted from 20 October 2026 and submitted from 12:00 on 10 November 2026 until 12:00 on 20 January 2027, and they are assessed in the order they arrive.

Not yet independently verified. Applications open on 10 November 2026; the eligible costs and the supplier register rules come from press coverage of the MIMIT decrees. We have not read the ministry's own scheme page. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

Update, 10 November 2026: The submission window opens today, 10 November, and runs to 20 January 2027; drafting opened on 20 October. Italian business press covered the scheme's legal basis and rules when it was announced in August (Teleborsa on 7 August, Ipsoa on 8 August). We have not read those rules on the ministry's own scheme page, so the eligible costs and the supplier register rules remain as reported by the press.

Who can claim and how much

The scheme is run by the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT) with the national development agency Invitalia, and it is open to SMEs and self-employed workers anywhere in Italy. Part of the budget is reserved for the southern regions, the Mezzogiorno. The grant is non-repayable and covers up to 50% of eligible spending, with an absolute ceiling of €20,000 per applicant, so a business reaches the maximum at €40,000 of eligible spend.

Because applications are dealt with in chronological order, the budget favours the earliest complete submissions. With €150 million and a €20,000 cap, the fund would cover at least 7,500 grants at the maximum and more at smaller amounts, and Invitalia does not say what happens to applications that arrive after the money runs out.

Buy only from listed suppliers

The rule with the most consequences for both buyers and vendors is that the services and products funded must be bought from suppliers on a register kept by the ministry. A business that signs with a provider outside that register will not be reimbursed, so checking the register before choosing a cloud or security vendor is the first step. For providers, being on the list is what makes them eligible to sell into the scheme at all.

Invitalia has published an interactive guide that walks through the application, the access requirements and the documents needed; it notes that the guide is illustrative only and stores nothing entered into it. Drafting the application in the three weeks before 10 November, so it could be submitted as soon as the window opened, is the practical advice that follows from first-come assessment.

Where it fits

The voucher is aimed at the gap between small firms that still run on local servers and basic antivirus and the security baseline larger customers increasingly ask of their suppliers. Our cloud security software category lists six products and our cybersecurity software category nine.

Sources

• Invitalia: Voucher cloud e cybersecurity, dal 20 ottobre 2026 la compilazione delle domande, 16 October 2026
• Teleborsa: MIMIT, vouchers for cloud and cybersecurity, 150 million euros for SMEs and the self-employed (Italian), 7 August 2026
• Ipsoa: cloud computing and cybersecurity vouchers, terms and application procedure set (Italian), 8 August 2026