Austrian promotional bank

Boosting innovation & growth

Developing ideas

Becoming an entrepeneur –
the first steps

Setting up a business

Being a young entrepreneur and expanding a business –
the first five years

Sustainable expansion

Further developing an established enterprise –
leaps in growth

aws Connect

Using investment and cooperation matching services

FIND your specific aws funding quickly and easily

Apply for and MANAGE your aws funding online

BROWSE all national and regional funding opportunities

aws Impactor

44.793

innovative company projects being actively supported (regular business)

71 out of 100

funding applications are approved (regular business)

1.050 Mio. EUR

aws funding (regular business)

75 %

of the submitted projects are innovation projects (regular business)

New Fundings and Calls

aws Protecting innovation

With aws protecting innovation, we support you in developing your individual, business-specific intellectual property strategy, i.e. we help identify, secure, protect, and exploit your intellectual property.

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Artificial Intelligence

Trustworthy AI - In the funding programme aws Digitalization there is a new call: From now on developments towards trustworthy AI will be funded.

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erp-loan

With the aws erp-loan we enable growth, investments and innovation through low-cost soft loans with flexible loan periods and fixed interest rates.

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The Funding Manager - Your Personal Assistant

The aws Funding Manager is your personal assistant when it comes to preparing funding applications, editing them as a team and submitting them to the aws online. The aws Funding Manager is constantly available to provide information of the current status of projects which have applied for aws public funding, it contains an overview of the most important deadlines, it saves confidential documents and supports you in undertaking the accounting for your investments.

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