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

Connecting services

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

Corona Virus Crisis

Coronavirus crisis, we are here for you! Dear entrepreneurs! The coronavirus crisis poses serious challenges for the Austrian economy. It is precisely in this phase that you need rapid and professional advice on the assistance offered by aws. For furthe

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aws Creative Impact: Create a prototype

The aim is to fund innovative prototypes and first applications in the context of digitalisation, design, architecture, gaming and/or audio-visual media. Applications may be submitted on an ongoing basis, with the next evaluation on 7 February 2020.

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Submission deadline extended

Start-ups and spin-offs as well as Austrian universities and research institutions can apply for the Austrian Founder Award PHÖNIX until October 1, 2020. We are looking forward to you!

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New programme structure

The aws has significantly simplified and restructured their offerings to make it even easier for companies to find the right funding in the future. The programmes are transparently grouped in four clusters.

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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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