PNRR for companies in 2026: nothing left to apply for, two deadlines left to meet

Closed for applications and now in implementation or reimbursement: the Component 9 SME digitalization line, with the deadlines above; the advanced digital technologies line of the same component, covering projects between EUR 500,000 and EUR 3,000,000; and the call dedicated to non-governmental organisations, whose implementation is governed by Ordinul MIPE nr. 609/2026. Each has its own page here, with its own dates.

Investment 19 of Component 7 works differently and is the most frequently misdescribed. It is not a grant: it is de minimis aid of at most EUR 17,000 per undertaking, granted exclusively as employee training programmes across nine technology domains, run by the Romanian Digitalization Authority (ADR). The company receives no money in its account and cannot redirect the amount to licences, equipment or software development. The official project page states that the submission period for support requests has ended and that SMEs can no longer file requests through the dedicated portal, and the implementation period declared there is December 2022 – December 2025.

Receiving applications right now, outside PNRR, are two lines relevant to a company that wanted digitalization. POCIDIF Action 2.1 is open from 30 June 2026, 15:00, to 30 September 2026, 17:00, under the guide approved by Ordinul MIPE nr. 965/23.06.2026, with a minimum non-repayable value of EUR 200,000 and a ceiling of EUR 1,500,000 for projects whose result is an innovative software solution; it addresses firms holding ICT CAEN codes, not any company. SME Eco-Tech accepts applications until 24 September 2026, 20:00, with a grant of at most 40% capped at CHF 50,000, that is RON 267,240.

That band still appears on pages presented as current, sometimes split by company size. What we can state as verified is what it is not: it describes no call receiving applications at this moment. On the call open now for software developers, POCIDIF Action 2.1, there is no tier below EUR 200,000, and the ceiling for a software result is EUR 1,500,000.

The band belongs to the PNRR C9 I3.1 call for digitalizing SMEs outside the IT sector: applications were received between 15 February and 30 June 2023 and the call has been closed ever since, with its own page here. Two further closed documents circulate around it, disambiguated on our POC 2014-2020 archive page. The practical conclusion is unchanged: a plan sized at EUR 100,000 on the assumption of an open call rests on a figure with no call behind it.

The same caution applies to the EUR 3,000,000 figure, which appears on two different programmes at once. On the PNRR advanced-technologies line it belongs to a closed call; on POCIDIF Action 2.1 it is granted only to projects whose result is an innovative hardware product manufactured by the beneficiary, and the portion above EUR 1,500,000 must be justified by financing the production line. A software company budgeting on EUR 3,000,000 is reading somebody else's ceiling.

Delivery and acceptance first, reimbursement second. The software must be put into production and formally accepted by the implementation deadline applicable to your contract; only then is the payment claim file assembled, against its own later deadline. Reversing that order is the most common mistake we see: beneficiaries preparing reimbursement documents for features not yet delivered.

What we do at this stage as a vendor: we re-plan deliveries into short iterations with written acceptance criteria, sign acceptance protocols as features reach production, and hand over the technical documentation, invoices and reports in the form the file requires. The deadlines that actually apply remain those in your financing contract and in the MIPE orders, not those on a marketing page.

One limit stated upfront: we do not sign acceptance protocols, conformity declarations or test reports for software delivered by another supplier. We can take over the remaining development under our own contract and audit what we find, but our signature covers only our own work. A beneficiary who needs the opposite has a contract problem, not a supplier problem.

A new wave of digitalization funding becomes real only when an official guide is published; until then, any circulating calendar is an estimate. What depends on no guide and never expires: an inventory of the processes to digitalize, ranked by the workload they consume today, a technical specification of the solution, and a budget by cost category built on real offers.

Funding guides require at least two dated offers or market analyses to justify prices; a company that already holds the written specification collects those offers in days rather than weeks. The rest of the dossier — the application, the business plan, the filing — remains yours and your consultant's, not ours.