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.
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!
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!
Do you come from the creative industries and want to implement an innovative idea? Then apply for aws First Inkubator and receive coaching and financing for the further development of your idea up to the first steps on the market! aws First Inkubator - for you and your ideas.
The 3rd DIGITAL tender round is open until January 24, 2023.
Submit now until 13 September 2022 (12 noon)!
Companies developing a product are supported not only in technical development, but also in product design.
Submit your business plan to i2b by October 2, 2022 and win prizes worth a total of over 200,000 euros!
Deadline: March 31, 2023 (submission of accounting documents).
Submissions possible until September 5!
The BMKÖS funding program for new cinematic formats, "Pixel, Bytes + Film", is being announced again. A production budget of up to 35,000 euros will be made available per project.
Submissions possible until 7 September!
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.
Develop your IP strategy and apply for grants of up to 100,000 euros in eligible costs for e.g. IP applications, patent attorneys, IP searches and analyses of your own or others' IP legal position.
The Commission supports the cultural sector with an online guide to EU funding.
All important instruments to bridge the major financial challenges for the cultural sector are to be extended or increased.
Support for entrepreneurs who have to stop their previous self-employed activity because of Corona.
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.
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.
One-person enterprises (EPUs) are particularly affected by the Corona crisis and its economic consequences. waff now also supports this target group with CET funding for one-person enterprises.
Commission launches €12 million worth of calls to support EU news media and public space.
The funding gives Vorarlberg artists the opportunity to pursue their artistic activities in a suitable working environment.
If a company decides to use new, digital technologies in the future, there is financial support with Salzburg.Digital.
Funding is available for the establishment/acquisition of economically independent small or medium-sized enterprises in the commercial sector.
The "Small Business Grant" programme supports investments by small businesses with project costs between € 10,000 and € 100,000.
SMEs are supported in entering international markets and introducing products in a new foreign market.
The funding "Implementation of the Economic Strategy" supports development projects that contribute to the implementation of the Lower Austrian Economic Strategy.
Funding is provided for research and development projects with high market implementation potential.
With "easy2market", the promising results from the "easy2research" project are introduced to the market.
The "easy2research" funding programme supports SMEs in Upper Austria in implementing their product and process developments in cooperation with a research institution.
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.
With funding in the area of implementing innovative projects, your ideas for developing future-oriented technologies are financially supported.
Beyond individual company innovation projects, cooperations between companies and cooperations between companies and scientific institutions are funded at an increased rate.
The Innovation funding programme supports you in the development of new or significantly improved products, services and processes or the implementation of organisational innovations.
The creative_pioneer funding programme supports founders and young entrepreneurs in the creative industries who develop new products, services or processes.
"creative_to market" supports the implementation of new marketing and sales strategies of creative industries companies with an existing product portfolio.
The funding programme "creative_project" supports companies in the creative industries in developing creative products, services or processes.
The new funding campaign "Start!Klar plus", which helps imaginative Styrian founders in the run-up to their first round of financing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The digitisation offensive KMU.DIGITAL of the BMDW and the WKÖ goes into the next round.
On the info page of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber you will find FAQs for entrepreneurs about Covid-19.
The Federal Government's mix of measures to combat the effects of the coronavirus includes a number of supports for the cultural sector.
