SME.DIGITAL
The digitisation support for SMEs
Creative professionals are often caught between the conflicting priorities of business, innovation and creativity. In addition to funding specifically tailored to the creative industries or individual sectors, it is therefore worthwhile to also consider economic, innovation or cultural and arts funding for financing a project. Funding can come from the federal, provincial, municipal and EU levels.
...from the European Union
Current calls and funding
Expedition Future #INNOVATION: High impact, big change!
The Expedition Future INNOVATION call for proposals supports projects in an early project phase, e.g. in problem analysis or brainstorming solution approaches. Get information now!
New funding program: Vienna Planet Fund
The Vienna Business Agency's new funding program for entrepreneurs who see opportunities in the development of climate-friendly projects.
Funding for creative and media companies
With its ongoing funding program, the Vienna Business Agency offers creative and media companies based in Vienna support in all phases of company development. Next submission deadline March 31, 2024!
New funding: Culture & Technology - Focus Festivals
Are you organizing a festival with a connection to Vienna and would like to use new technological solutions in your festival operations in the future? The Vienna Business Agency's new two-stage Culture & Technology: Focus Festivals funding program will provide you with targeted support in implementing your idea.
Newly designed support offer from the Vienna Business Agency
Companies in the creative industries are offered a diverse support portfolio with funding of up to 200,000 euros.
Do you know CIRCE?
CIRCE is the abbreviation for the Creative Impact Fund, CIRCE offers practitioners from the cultural and creative economies the opportunity to implement their ideas or to take the next development step with their existing company. Funding is provided to individuals and companies that work on new solutions for the challenges of our time, such as climate change, demographic changes and social inequalities.
aws Seedfinancing - Innovative Solutions also for and with creative businesses
Do you come from the creative industries and want to launch an innovation on the market? Then submit your application to aws Seedfinancing - Innovative Solutions and receive up to EUR 400,000 to develop your innovation to market maturity and launch it on the market, creating a positive impact for the economy and society!
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-start-up phase for your scalable project with demonstrable, positive impact on the economy and society!
Lower Austria: Design promotion for companies at TIP NÖ
Companies developing a product are supported not only in technical development, but also in product design.
CCS Guarantee Facility
With the counter-guarantees offered via the European Investment Fund (EIF) for companies from the creative industries, it is possible for aws to offer guarantees at particularly good conditions for these companies.
CulturEU: Online guide to EU funding
The Commission supports the cultural sector with an online guide to EU funding.
New European Bauhaus
The new Bauhaus initiative aims to create attractive, sustainable and inclusive places, products and lifestyles in the EU. It adds a cultural and creative dimension to the Green Deal, helping to make innovation and the economy more sustainable.
New: Digital guide to facilitate access to EU funding for creatives
Since July, an interactive mapping tool has summarised and made available EU funding opportunities across all EU funding programmes for self-employed persons and associations from the press, publishing, radio and audiovisual services.
EU Call: Funding for news media
Commission launches €12 million worth of calls to support EU news media and public space.
Salzburg: Setting up a new business, taking over a business - support for start-ups, Land Salzburg
Funding is available for the establishment/acquisition of economically independent small or medium-sized enterprises in the commercial sector.
Carinthia: Small business grant from the KWF
The "Small Business Grant" programme supports investments by small businesses with project costs between € 10,000 and € 100,000.
Carinthia: Internationalisation support for SMEs from the KWF
SMEs are supported in entering international markets and introducing products in a new foreign market.
Lower Austria: Implementation of the Economic Strategy, Land Niederösterreich
The funding "Implementation of the Economic Strategy" supports development projects that contribute to the implementation of the Lower Austrian Economic Strategy.
Lower Austria: Research & Technology Development - Quality, Province of Lower Austria
Funding is provided for research and development projects with high market implementation potential.
Upper Austria: easy2market from Business Upper Austria
With "easy2market", the promising results from the "easy2research" project are introduced to the market.
Upper Austria: easy2research by Business Upper Austria
The "easy2research" funding programme supports SMEs in Upper Austria in implementing their product and process developments in cooperation with a research institution.
Burgenland: Research and development projects of the Burgenland Business Agency
The aim of the programme is to promote industrial and experimental research and development, as well as to strengthen the innovative power of companies from Burgenland.
Burgenland: Implementation of innovative projects of the Burgenland Business Agency
With funding in the area of implementing innovative projects, your ideas for developing future-oriented technologies are financially supported.
Tyrol: Research, development and innovation projects of the province of Tyrol
Beyond individual company innovation projects, cooperations between companies and cooperations between companies and scientific institutions are funded at an increased rate.
Vienna: Innovation of the Vienna Business Agency
The Innovation funding programme supports you in the development of new or significantly improved products, services and processes or the implementation of organisational innovations.
Styria: Start-ups with Start!Klar plus funding from SFG
The new funding campaign "Start!Klar plus", which helps imaginative Styrian founders in the run-up to their first round of financing.
Styria: Start a business with Start!Klar from SFG
More and more people are choosing the responsible task of founding and taking over a business and leading it into the future. Are you one of them? Then we have the support of Start!Klar ready for you too.
Styria: Innovation Promotion Ideas!Find of the SFG
The funding module "Finding Ideas" is tailor-made to accompany the beginnings and planning of the development of new (digital) products and services and to make them more concrete.
Impact Innovation Funding at FFG
With Impact Innovation, the FFG promotes the development of innovative ideas and solutions. Central to this is an innovation process that develops the idea and solutions in intensive interaction with all relevant actors.
aws: Digitisation
With aws Digitalisation, you are supported in the comprehensive digitalisation of your products/services and processes, as well as e-commerce activities and the development of digital business models.
