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Innovation and grants
Andrea is a certified Innovation Manager: he writes the innovation part of the project with you and follows it through to the end of the grant. Then we install the technology and make it work: network, cloud, security, business software. One point of contact, from application to final testing.
The problem
There's a grant, but we don't know if it's right for us.Requirements, eligible costs, deadlines: just reading it is a job in itself.
Our accountant handles the application, but who writes the technical part?The innovation project has to be described well, and that's where the assessment is won or lost.
We've been asked for additional information on the project.Specific questions, tight deadlines, and you need someone who knows how to answer.
We got the grant. Now who's going to do the work?The approved project has to actually be delivered, and reported on.
What we do
Andrea Putignano is a certified Innovation Manager under the UNI 11814 standard (certificate INN no. 76-M, undergoing Accredia accreditation). He assesses the project, writes its innovation section and keeps it consistent with what will actually be delivered.
His website: innovationmanagerpuglia.it · About us
We look with you at what you want to do and which national and regional grants are open, and tell you frankly whether it's worth applying.
We work alongside the accountant or consultant handling the application: we cover the technical and innovation side, they cover the financial and administrative side.
When the funding body asks for clarification or additional information on the project, we prepare the technical answers within the required deadlines.
Network, cloud, security, business software, websites: we install whatever the project includes, with the documents needed for reporting.
Grants
Status checked on 25/10/2026 on the official pages. If your company is in another region, we'll tell you which regional schemes are open.
Innovation projects
Projects for our client companies, where technology becomes part of their processes: automatically collected data, sensors, artificial intelligence. You can also find them on Andrea's website.
Environment · Waste collection
Process analysis to collect user data systematically and automatically, with artificial intelligence and easy-to-use interfaces. And a new process for managing bulky waste collection, designed using data analysis and machine learning.
Energy · Solar power
Sensors and connected devices to track panel output in real time and carry out maintenance before a fault occurs; drones with thermal cameras to read the condition of each panel. Underneath, an infrastructure to collect and store data securely, connected to the company's other systems.
Sport · Sports centre
At a sports centre, a system combining sensors, cameras and software: players save videos of their favourite plays themselves and collect them as soon as the match ends.
Services · Occupational health
Process mapping to collect client data automatically and interpret it with predictive analytics. And a cloud document archive, with artificial intelligence to classify documents and find them by searching for meaning, not just by name.
Examples
2026 · MiniPIA
For businesses in different sectors, we handled the innovation programme of MiniPIA projects (an Apulia Region grant) and answered the Region's requests for additional information, together with the firm handling the applications.
2026 · Voucher
For the Voucher Cloud & Cybersecurity, we're registered for hardware and software security and for configuration, monitoring and support services: in our quotes we state the right code for each item.
Real cases, told without naming names.
Timing and costs
The first assessment is free. You tell us what you want to do; we tell you whether there's a suitable grant, what's needed and how long it takes.
Then you receive a written proposal that separates consultancy on the project from delivery of the technology, so you know what you're paying for and what may be covered by the grant.
What happens next
Questions
It's Andrea Putignano of MMultimedia, certified under the UNI 11814 standard (certificate INN no. 76-M, undergoing Accredia accreditation). He handles the innovation part of projects and makes sure it's consistent with what is delivered.
We write the technical and innovation part of the project. The financial and administrative part is usually handled by the company's accountant or consultant, with whom we work together.
It depends on the rules of both schemes and how the costs are structured: it has to be checked case by case, before submitting the applications. We'll tell you in the assessment.
As of 25 October 2026, yes: first-come, first-served applications until 2pm on 31 December 2026, unless funds run out first. As it's first-come, first-served, it pays to move early.
New applications have been suspended since 3 March 2026, and as of 25 October no reopening date has been announced. We'll update this page as soon as anything changes.
A couple of lines are enough: what you want to do, where the company is based, whether you already have an adviser for the application. We'll reply within 2 hours during office hours.
