(CIANEWS) - The Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade (MPO) has announced a fourth public tender in the Country for the Future programme’s Innovation for the Practice 3 sub-programme. The objective is to support innovations in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Companies can send their project plans by August 5, 2022. The maximum support per project is CZK 20m. The ministry will provide this support from the National Recovery Plan. Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade for digitalisation and innovations Petr Očko said that the plans had to fulfil at least one of ten set digital objectives, which included cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.