PIPE (Initiation Plan for Internationalisation)
PIPE (Initiation Plan for Internationalisation)
- Organization: Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX)
- Beneficiaries: SMEs in general.
- Type of assistance:
- Individual and specialized advice
PIPE offers specialized technical advice to companies throughout all the phases of the programme, providing:- Tutors: professionals providing advice to the company during the first stage of the process.
- Promoters: external consultants giving support to the company in designing the Internationalization Plan and in the process of opening the company to overseas markets.
- Collaborators: young professionals with training in foreign trade that can be hired by the company to put the Internationalization Plan into operation.
- Economic support
Over the two-year PIPE programme period (in three phases), companies can avail of an economic aid of 80%, up to a maximum of 36,800 €, which includes both advisory service costs, costs of the developer and contributor PIPE, and all overseas promotions activities (travel, trade fairs, promotional material, etc.).
- Individual and specialized advice