IDA Ireland Grants

A Smooth, Fast and Successful Set-up for Your Operations in Europe 

IDA Ireland's main objective is to  encourage investment into Ireland by foreign owned companies . It works as a strategic partner and provides consultancy and support services free of charge to help organisations set up and grow.  IDA Ireland favour green lights over red tape, which is why Ireland has been internationally recognised as the best country in the world for ease of doing business.   

IDA Ireland has a range of different supports such as Transform your Operations & Lean Global Business Services (GBS) that are  tailored to suit different stages of development and specific funding needs.   

Transform your Operations with IDA Ireland

Thinking about enhancing your operations in Ireland? IDA Ireland have supports available to help you avail of tools and techniques that can unlock innovation in the way you do business today - giving you the springboard to stay sustainable into the future

  • Outcome-based support options available with significant assistance
  • Lean programme helps in finding creative solutions to enhance competitiveness

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Lean for Global Business Services (GBS) 

One of the IDA business offers is the Lean GBS (Global Business Services) to client companies to enable site transformation. ​This offer is designed to encourage IDA clients to adopt lean and automation business principles. ​Leading to increased performance and competitiveness that will help sustain and grow their Irish services operations. ​We support IDA clients to achieve their global business services ambitions and to take advantage of modern thinking in service excellence. As a team of seasoned multinational senior executives, we understand how GBS companies can further develop international standards and world-class operations to identify and successfully compete for internal business on the global stage.

The Lean for GBS Business Offer has been developed for companies primarily engaged in the provision of shared or global business services from Ireland.

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The Lean for Global Business Services (GBS) is made up of three levels of support:

The Lean Business Offer for GBS will typically commence with a diagnostic audit of current practice and performance. Key performance indicators will be established to achieve targeted business improvement measures based on a set of Lean/automation tools and methodologies tailored to suit each client’s situation. Larger scale automation projects will be combined with a diversification and training strategy to redeploy roles affected into higher value activities.

The Lean Business Offer for GBS will be available to all IDA Ireland clients subject to eligibility as determined by IDA Ireland.  Lean funding from IDA to the company will depend on a number of factors, such as its size and stage of development and existing capabilities around automation and business transformation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Lean can help any business by bringing transparency to the processes that deliver your products of services to your customers. Once you and your team can see the issues and challenges in the process, lean has some simple but really effective tools to minimize or eliminate those issues. The result is a process that is simpler, repeatable and therefore more effective in delivering the right product/service, at the right cost and at the right time.

Lean tools and techniques are helping companies across Ireland to address competitiveness issues within their businesses by building the capability of their people to identify problems, improve operations and create a more innovative organisation.

We have delivered many lean programs and it’s fair to say that they have always delivered a significant improvement for our clients.  You can look at our case studies at your convenience to look at the type of results companies can achieve. 

The length of time from application to approval varies, depending on the type of funding being sought i.e. there is a higher level of interaction and information exchange between EI and the IDA advisor and you, the client, for the higher funding, but it would be reasonable to expect the approval process to be completed in 3 – 8 weeks. Again the project completion time line depends on the size of lean program you are applying/approved for, the starter program is 7 days generally delivered over 2 – 3 months. The Lean Plus program is generally in the 6 -12 month time frame and the Lean Transform up to 3 years. You can read the detailed information on the funding offers on the EI/IDA websites but here’s a quick summary that you may find helpful.

The Lean Business Offer is made up of three levels of support:

1.        LeanStart  :

Eligible Cost Elements

Eligible Costs

Eligible Grant

External Adviser/trainer

€6,300 based on 7 days advisory services at rate of €900/day. Actual costs based on market rates may be higher

€5,000 based on a grant of up to 80% of eligible costs

2.        LeanPlus:

Eligible Cost Elements

Eligible Costs

Eligible Grant

External Lean Training/Advisory costs provided by a Service Provider on the EI directory, capped at €900 per day. Internal salary cost of up to 3 company ‘Lean project champions’, up to 50% of the total project cost, subject to a combined max. of 250 days at €200 per day.

Up to €100,000 in eligible expenditure. Actual company spend may be higher

50% of eligible costs up to a maximum of €50,000

3.        LeanTransform:

Eligible Cost Elements

Eligible Costs

Eligible Grant

trainers' and trainees personnel costs, for the hours during which the trainers participate in the training;

Eligible external trainer costs are capped at €900 per day including expenses. Internal staff time (trainer or trainee) is based on actual pay rates to a cap of €350 per day.

The maximum grant rate is based on a percentage of eligible costs and depends on company size;

Small – 70%, Medium – 60%,  Large – 50%

trainers' and trainees' operating costs directly relating to the training project such as travel expenses, materials and supplies

Travel and subsistence expenses are allowed as per standard EI policy where deemed reasonable.

 

costs of expert advisory services linked to the training project for advice and guidance on training programme implementation and appraisal as well as benchmarking / diagnostics where appropriate

Costs of advisory services are capped at €900 per day including expenses, limited to  a maximum of 10% of the total eligible training project spend up to a project maximum of €200,000.

 

 


 

Each level of support is characterized by increasing levels of capability in implementing Lean business principles and other best practice approaches to drive company awareness, adoption and integration of Lean tools and techniques.

The IDA provide funding support to companies (potential/current) who are considering foreign direct investment in Ireland. You can check if you have the potential to be an IDA Client by looking at the eligibility criteria on each of their websites, or  contact us   and we will help you to check it out.

Like anything else, applying for funding for the 1st time may seem daunting but it is quite straight forward. The eligibility and application steps are all highlighted on the IDA site  under ‘How We Help’ Funding Sources and Incentives .  Expertivity have delivered many Lean Programs and are always happy to support our clients with the application process

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