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SME Packages: how to get 70% of your website funded in Luxembourg

The Luxembourg State can pay back 70% of a digital project for SMEs, from €3,000 to €25,000. Who can apply, what is covered and how it works, step by step.

SME Packages Luxembourg: 70% funding for digital, cybersecurity and AI projects

A new website, an online campaign, better tools to run your business: for many small companies in Luxembourg, the question is not whether it would help, but how to pay for it. That is exactly what the SME Packages programme is for.

What are the SME Packages?

The SME Packages are a programme of the Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy. If your company is a small or medium-sized business, the Ministry can pay back 70% of the eligible costs of a project between €3,000 and €25,000 excluding VAT.

There are five packages. Three of them concern digital projects:

  • Digital: building, developing or improving a website, social media campaigns, management tools such as ERP or cash register software, electronic invoicing.
  • Cybersecurity: assessing your security level, support towards NIS2 compliance, putting security tools and procedures in place.
  • AI: first steps with artificial intelligence through simple, existing solutions.

The two others, Sustainability and Service, cover energy, waste, customer experience and products.

Who can apply?

Your company needs to tick three boxes:

  1. It holds a business permit (autorisation d’établissement).
  2. It is an SME, based on its number of staff, annual turnover and balance sheet.
  3. Its registered office is in Luxembourg.

How does it work, step by step?

  1. Contact us. We look at your project together and check which package fits.
  2. Pre-analysis. A short meeting with the House of Entrepreneurship (or eHandwierk for craft businesses, or the Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity for the Cybersecurity package). We help you prepare it.
  3. Quote. We define the scope and prepare a clear quote between €3,000 and €25,000 excluding VAT.
  4. Application. Your adviser submits the aid application with you. The Ministry reviews it and decides.
  5. Project. Once the aid is decided, we carry out the project.
  6. Evaluation, payment and refund. After a short evaluation, you pay the final invoice and the Ministry pays you back 70% of the eligible costs.

An example

For a website project of €10,000 excluding VAT, the Ministry pays back €7,000. Your share is €3,000.

Good to know

  • You pay the invoice first, then receive the refund.
  • In the official procedure, the work starts after the Ministry’s decision. Don’t commit to costs before checking with your adviser.
  • Conditions can change: the official pages on guichet.lu always take precedence.

Want to know if your project qualifies? Contact us: we check it with you, free of charge and without commitment.