Business & self-employment in Italy
11 business & self-employment programmes we could source and date. Sorted so the ones with a published amount come first.
Check which of these you qualify for
Building a startup rather than a small business? We keep a separate, deeper dataset of 29 startup funding programmes in Italy — grants, R&D credits and cloud credits, ranked by what you can realistically win rather than by headline size.
Zero-interest finance plus grant for new youth and women-led businesses
●●●●
Verified
Zero-interest loans for innovative startups
●●●●
Verified
9 more business & self-employment programmes are on the paid plan, with the amount, the rules, the documents and the steps for each.
- Grants for under-35s starting businesses in Southern Italy
- Guaranteed microcredit for micro-enterprises and professionals
- 30% social security contribution relief for Southern employers
- Central Guarantee Fund for SME loans
- Interest subsidy on loans for capital goods investment
- Tax credit for business investments in the Southern Single Special Economic Zone
- Fund for women's entrepreneurship (grants and zero-interest finance)
- Super-depreciation up to 180% of the fiscal cost of new 4.0 capital goods (Legge di Bilancio 2026)
- Automatic 10% tax credit (max 5M EUR/year) on R&D expenditure, extended to 2031