Field of business

• Production and services related to production

Size of the company

• Focus on SMEs, but also large enterprises

Phase of development

• all

Requirements

• The project is implemented in Austria
• The application must be submitted before the project is started
• The provisions of the General Block Exemption Regulation must be fulfilled.

Success rate

50 %

Type of financing

• Non-repayable grant

Amount

• Up to 500,000,- euros

Eligible costs

• Personnel expenditures
• Training and education costs
• Consulting, Software development
• Investments in digital equipment

Implementation period

Up to 2 years

Disbursement

At pre-defined milestones or after implementation of the project.

Repayment

None

Costs

None

Additional funding

Within the scope of the General Block Exemption Regulation aws digitalization can be combined with:

• aws guarantee
• aws erp-loans
• aws growth investment
• public funding of the Austrian Federal State

• In case the implementation of the project has been started before the submission of the application
• Trade and services not related to production

Moment of application

Any time, at least two cut-off dates per year

Process of application and approval

1. You submit the application together with an ERP trustee bank via the aws Fördermanager.
2. You receive a confirmation of receipt.
3. First, we check the most important criteria regarding form and content.
4. If necessary, we ask you for clarification of project details.
5. We analyse the application in detail and take the decision if we can support your project.

We inform you as soon as possible if your application has been approved or not.

Duration of the approval process

1–3 months