Grants and opportunities. Only the ones you are really eligible for.

The regional grant that closed three weeks ago, which you heard about from a supplier. The call that looked perfect but was missing a requirement visible on page four. This piece looks at the public sources every day and flags only what you can really get, with how much time you have left.

This is the page for a single piece of the system. The other pieces, and the criterion for choosing which to start from, are on the services page.

What changes in practice

It stops depending on who tells you. In 2024 there were 2,374 active support measures in Italy, of which 300 from central government and 2,074 regional: nobody who also has a business to run can keep watch over that number.

The count is from the Report on measures supporting economic and productive activities by the Ministry of Enterprises, 2025 edition. In the same document Italian businesses are the recipients of 95% of the aid granted, with small businesses as the main recipients.

Today in a great many businesses the news of a grant comes from the accountant when it happens to, from a supplier selling machinery or from a promotional email, so it arrives late and incomplete.

The second change is the quick decision. With the deadline, the requirements and the preparation time in the same alert, you can tell in two minutes whether it makes sense to move or whether it is already impossible, instead of finding out after two days of phone calls.

The official incentives portal lets you save at most five searches. It is a good measure of how far manual watching can go.

The constraint almost nobody keeps up to date

It is the de minimis ceiling, and it is worth 300,000 euros over three years. Regulation (EU) 2023/2831 puts it this way: «The total amount of de minimis aid granted per Member State to a single undertaking shall not exceed EUR 300 000 over any period of three years».

The three years are counted on a rolling basis, so the position changes on its own as the months pass, even when the business asks for nothing. That is why the remaining amount reconstructed from memory is almost always wrong, and aid granted above the ceiling is lost.

From 1 January 2026 the aid granted must be entered in a central register within 20 working days, and the information stays there for 10 years. It means the position has become verifiable, and the system keeps it next to every alert instead of leaving it as a final surprise.

The regulation applies until 31 December 2030, so the current ceiling has a known end date. The thresholds and exceptions for agriculture, fisheries and services of general economic interest follow different regulations, and your consultant will tell you which one concerns you.

Flagging everything is the same as flagging nothing

This is the part almost nobody builds, and it decides whether the system is still used after the first month. Almost all services of this kind send the list of the sector's grants: twenty alerts a month arrive, eighteen don't concern you, and by the third week nobody opens them any more.

Here the filter comes first. It looks at the requirements that really exclude: the activity code, the size of the business, the territory, the legal form, the type of eligible expense, the required social security compliance and the remaining ceiling.

What doesn't pass stays available to consult, and doesn't produce an alert. An alert has an attention cost, and should be spent only when there is a real decision to make: it is the same criterion as the operational deadline alerts.

The rule is deliberately asymmetric. When a requirement is ambiguous the system flags it and says it is ambiguous, because a lost grant doesn't come back, while two more minutes of reading cost two minutes.

What the system does, step by step

The sources are checked every day, and every step leaves a log entry with the source and the moment the measure appeared.

Step	What happens	What you get
Watchingpublic sources	The national incentives portal, the portals of the regions where you operate, chambers of commerce, European calls and official gazettes, checked every day.	Measures appear on your list the day they come out, not when someone tells you.
Profileyour requirements	Activity code, size, location, typical expenses and remaining ceiling are set once and updated when they change.	The filter reasons about your real business, not about a generic sector category.
Eligibilitybefore the alert	Every measure is compared with those requirements, and ambiguous cases are flagged as ambiguous.	Few things arrive in the inbox and all of them are relevant, so you keep opening them even in March.
Alertwith the date	The alert carries the deadline, form of aid, expenses covered, estimated preparation time and documents required.	You decide in two minutes whether to move, instead of opening forty pages of annexes to find out.
Handoverto the professional	When you decide to go for it, the position is exported in order for the consultant or the accountant.	Whoever prepares the application starts from a complete folder and not from the day before the deadline.

The sources are public, and they stay public

The system looks where you would look, starting from the catalogue of the national incentives portal, which can be filtered by sector, company size and territory. The difference lies in doing it every day on all the sources that concern you.

No data comes from bought lists, reserved areas or privileged channels. This information is public by definition, and whoever promises early access to a public grant is describing something that doesn't exist.

What goes out on its own and what waits for a person

The watching goes out on its own, with the filter and the alert. The system reads, compares and alerts without anyone having to remember to check, even in the weeks when the business has other things on its mind.

No application, no enrolment and no communication to a public body goes out on its own. Submitting an application commits the business and whoever signs it, so it always remains a person's decision.

Where an automatic alert reaches someone outside the business, it states in one line that it is a system: from 2 August 2026 Article 50 of the AI Act applies, and how we say it is on the AI transparency page. The reasoning about the human constraint is on the page about the principles we build with.

The same thing changes name with the trade

The watching is identical; the measure that gets missed isn't. It is worth looking at your own case, because the useful sources change a lot from one sector to another.

Sector	What gets missed today	Where you see it
Food and agricultureand export	Grants for taking part in foreign trade fairs and for product certification, which open and close within the trade fair season.	The typical day of a small producer who exports
Hospitalityaccommodation and events	Regional calls for upgrading accommodation facilities, which often come out in the low season and close before reopening.	The pre-season of an accommodation business
Restaurantsand bars	Chamber of Commerce grants for equipment and digitalisation, often first-come-first-served, where the funds run out in days and only being ready counts.	The service of a dining room where the phone rings unanswered

What this piece doesn't do

It doesn't prepare the application and it isn't subsidised finance consultancy. The application carries precise responsibilities and is done by a qualified professional, who works better and faster with a position that is already organised.

It doesn't tell you whether a grant is worth it for you. It sets out the amount, the expenses covered, the subsequent obligations and the time required, and the economic assessment stays with you and your consultant.

It doesn't calculate your official de minimis position for you. It keeps count of the aid you tell us about and flags when the ceiling is getting close, while the formal check lies in the public register and in the declarations you sign.

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