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Guide · Updated 18 October 2026

The SME Package AI: funding a first AI project in Luxembourg

Luxembourg's SME Package AI pays back 70% of the eligible cost of an AI project — if the project is sized, filed and delivered the way the programme expects. Most SMEs never file one, not because the money is small but because the path is unclear. Here is the path, step by step.

What the programme pays

The SME Package AI is a Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy scheme. It reimburses 70% of the eligible costs of a project that puts an AI tool to work in your company, for projects between EUR 3,000 and 25,000 excl. VAT — so a EUR 20,000 project costs you EUR 6,000, and the aid is capped at EUR 17,500. The official terms live on guichet.public.lu, and the programme's own checks always decide. Two mechanics catch companies out: you pay the provider in full first and are reimbursed afterwards, and there is a mandatory pre-analysis before any application.

Who qualifies

Your company needs a business permit issued by the Ministry of the Economy, its registered office in Luxembourg, and to meet the usual SME conditions on staff count, turnover and balance sheet. Craft firms go through the Chamber of Crafts (eHandwierk) instead. If you are unsure whether you qualify, the pre-analysis is the place to find out — it is the first step either way.

The path, in four steps

  1. Pre-analysis. Book at the House of Entrepreneurship (Chamber of Commerce) or, for craft firms, eHandwierk. An adviser checks your eligibility and that the idea fits the scheme. This step is free and mandatory.
  2. Quote. With a provider of your choice, define a project of EUR 3,000 to 25,000 excl. VAT. The programme funds the implementation and integration of an AI tool into your business — it is not a training budget and not a study budget.
  3. Filing. The chamber adviser files the application with the Ministry, which decides.
  4. Delivery and repayment. You pay the provider, the project is delivered, and 70% of the eligible cost is reimbursed afterwards.

What a fundable project looks like

The strongest projects we see connect an AI capability to data the company already owns: asking questions of its own contracts, client files or product data; drafting first versions of documents staff currently write by hand; searching internal knowledge that currently lives in folders nobody can search. The common thread is that the tool meets the company's real systems and real data. A generic chatbot with no connection to your data is the weakest kind of project to file — and the weakest to run afterwards.

One constraint matters for many Luxembourg companies: if your client files, fund documents or KYC data cannot leave your walls, the project must be built so the AI runs on your own infrastructure. That is legal, it is fundable, and it is exactly the kind of project yujins delivers — we install an in-house data and AI platform on site, inside your information system.

Where yujins fits

We help you scope a project that fits the EUR 3,000–25,000 window, quote it, and deliver it inside your walls. To see what that would look like for your company,start on our home page, where a sample window shows the kind of answer our platform gives on a client's own data.

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