aws Preseed – Innovative solutions also for and with creative businesses
Do you come from the creative industries and are working on the proof of concept for your innovation project? Then submit to aws Preseed – Innovative Solutions and receive a grant of up to EUR 100,000 for the development of a proof of concept with demonstrably high innovation content in the pre-foundation phase for your scalable project with a demonstrable, positive impact on the economy and society!
- Funding advance: max. 100.000,- EUR
- Term: 1 year
- Submissions are possible on an ongoing basis
The aws supports innovative projects in all sectors, from the creative industries to soft/low-tech and social entrepreneurship. Your innovation project must be able to demonstrate a positive social added value (impact) beyond the boundaries of your own company in these areas, among others:
- Diversity / equality / integration / inclusion
- Environment / Resources / Climate protection
- Social and/or economic change
- Health / Care
- Education
- Mobility / Transportation
- Urban development / Living in the countryside / Housing
The creative industries can benefit from aws Preseed – Innovative Solutions in two ways:
- As an existing company that is itself a funding recipient and wants to successfully take a highly innovative, entrepreneurial project from development to scaling, relying on its own creative business implementation steps with impact.
- In its function as a supplier of creative industry-based innovation services with its professional, creative industry know-how and its expertise in contributing innovative solutions for the development of companies. In this way, companies with a high level of creative intensity can emerge, which are professionally supported and promoted by the creative industries from the initial idea through to market launch and further growth phases. The creative industries contribute their innovation potential here and thus create crossover and transformation effects for the economy, whether in the early stages as part of a multidisciplinary start-up team or later as a contractor or employee of a highly innovative company.
aws Preseed- Innovative Solutions is a funding program that was developed in the context of the creative industries strategy for Austria of the BMDW and supports the role of the creative industries for innovation and transformation in Austria.