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

71 out of 100

funding applications are approved

1.050 Mio. EUR

aws funding

75 %

of the submitted projects are innovation projects

New Fundings and Calls

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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Pitch your idea!

For the „Mission Innovation Austria Award“ we are looking for the best start-ups in the field of innovative energysystems. Apply until 18 March 2020. The best start-ups get the opportunity to present their project at the „Mission Innovation Austria Week."

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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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