Eligible to participate to the
GoOnline programme are all Greek SMEs with up to ten employees apart from joint stock companies (S.A.'s) and self-employed professionals.
For the purposes of the programme, enterprises are classified according to the following categories:
- enterprises with no infrastructure to connect to the Internet
- Internet-ready enterprises: that is, they have access to the Internet and an active e-mail address
- enterprises that have a web site and are capable of transacting electronically with customers and/or suppliers (B2C and B2B)
The aim is to bring all SMEs to the third stage. Direct transition from stage 1 to stage 3, is not allowed.
It is worth mentioning that during the evaluation process of the applications, a number of criteria are taken into consideration, such as:
- the size of the enterprise based on the number of its employees and the company's annual turnover
- the geographical location of the enterprise (remote areas are in favour)
- the firm's business sector and its degree of susceptibility to e-commerce practices
Until now,
50.280
SMEs have been approved to participate to GoOnline, whereas
34.688
of them have received formal training by
1.801
specialised e-business consultants. Since we are talking about an ongoing process these numbers increase daily.
