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State services are already fully digitalised for citizens in Estonia, but there’s more to improve in the business sector. Enterprise Estonia is rolling out three new grant schemes totalling €10M to help companies automate data exchange — both between businesses and between the private and public sectors.
The initiative sits within Estonia’s broader real-time economy (RTE) agenda, which aims to eliminate manual data handling by ensuring information flows automatically, in standardised formats, to the right parties at the right time. This will enable automated annual reports, real-time payroll submissions, and live inventory management — rather than PDFs and email attachments.
What’s on offer
The largest pot — €5M — supports companies developing or upgrading business software for secure, standardised data exchange. It splits into two streams: €3.5M for projects built in partnership with a public-sector body, and €1.5M for purely private-sector efforts. The maximum grant per company is €150,000, with companies covering 50–75% of costs themselves.
This scheme opened on 23 March and is already building on pilot work completed in 2025, when the Centre of Registers and Information Systems began accepting automated data for generating micro-enterprise annual reports. Five private software platforms had already integrated with the system, pushing data for roughly 600 companies. Statistics Estonia and the Agriculture Registers and Information Board have similarly begun accepting automated data feeds.
Two further schemes opened on 30 March. One — worth €3.5M — backs projects that either adopt existing national digital infrastructure or find new uses for public-sector data. Possible applications include enriching health and wellness apps with state-held health records, or combining the building register with IoT sensor data to assess apartment block energy efficiency.
The other, worth €1.5M, supports companies connecting their own internal systems for automatic data exchange — covering things like real-time stock and order management, production analytics, or linking sales and customer data. At least one external partner must be involved.
All three schemes are EU co-funded, and applications are accepted on a rolling basis until budgets run out. To learn more, click here.
