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It took twenty years of work and complex multilateral confrontation, but in the end, the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the UN agency serving innovators and creators, adopted the Design Law Treaty. The agreement represents a significant step forward in international collaboration in the field of [...]

The guarantee agreement between Mediocredito Centrale and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti is now operational. The agreement will make available 4.3 billion euros in new financing from the banking system to 50,000 SMEs , with the aim of promoting their competitiveness and investment. Through the hedging mechanisms activated with the EIF [...]

New rules wanted by the EU to ensure the safety of all non-food consumer products sold offline or online on the EU market came into force today, 13 December 2024. New rules wanted by the EU to ensure the safety of all non-food consumer products sold offline or online on [...]

The Ministry of Enterprise have adopted the new ‘Guidelines on the declaration of the quantity of ingredients, as well as further information for the correct application of the provisions concerning the labelling of certain food products’. The document is the result of the work of the Ministry's Agroindustry Table and [...]

The European Commission has published three calls for a total of 16 million euros to fund information by supporting media freedom and pluralism, as well as promoting media literacy; it’s part of the Creative Europe Programme. The first call has a 10.5 million euros budget and invites proposals for pluralism [...]

The Ministry of Agriculture has launched the 2024 edition of the ‘Innovation in Agriculture Fund’, which has a 100 million euros budget to support technological innovation in the agriculture, fishing and aquaculture sectors. In particular, resources will be made available to companies that produce innovative agricultural equipment, as well as [...]

On 11 December, the online desk for the submission of applications for subsidies for investments aimed at the green and digital transition of companies in the textile, fashion and accessories sector will open. The measure, introduced by art. 11 of the Made in Italy Law (206/2023), has a 15 million [...]

A free webinar aimed at all companies on the internationalisation opportunities for Italian companies on the African continent is scheduled for next Wednesday, 11 September from 3 to 4 p.m. This opportunity, which is also available for Sardinian enterprises, has been developed within the framework of the SEI project - [...]

Simest, the ‘Cassa Depositi e Prestiti’ Group's company for the internationalisation of enterprises, has activated a new 200 million euros reserve to support Italian investments in the Western Balkans area (Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, and North Macedonia - FYROM). Simest, the ‘Cassa Depositi e Prestiti’ Group's company for the [...]

Start-ups and micro-enterprises will be able to obtain economic support for the purchase of professional services with the ‘3-level Vouchers – Invest in Innovation”. Said vouchers will be rendered exclusively by lawyers and industrial property consultants, for the patenting of industrial inventions. The criteria for granting the support are contained [...]