aws Guarantee

aws Guarantee offers securities/collateral that your bank requires from you when granting a loan – and thus increase your chance of obtaining the loan.

special terms/conditions: environmental sustainability and digitization

The aim is to facilitate the financing of projects related to ecologically sustainable economic activities that have a significant positive impact on the climate and the environment. Furthermore, promising digitization projects as well as recycling and production facilities for the production of components and devices for information communication and technologies in Austria are to be supported.

Link to details

special terms and conditions: young enterprises

Applications are constantly possible

Support in the financing of projects by young enterprises. The aim is the financing support for economically independent SMEs in the first 6 years after the founding or takeover date. The company must be operated in its own name and for its own account

Link to details

special terms and conditions: equity leverage

applications possible any time

The aim is to support the financing of projects by young enterprises for up to 7 years after their first commercial sale. Equity, that has been raised for the project, can be doubled by a loan in the same amount. For this loan aws provides a guarantee of 80 % of the loan amount. The funds can be used for the purchase of tangible and intangible assets as well as for the financing of working capital.

 

Link to details

special terms and conditions: internationalisation

Ongoing submissions possible via aws Fördermanager

The aim is to facilitate the financing of direct investments by Austrian companies abroad.

Link to details

special terms and conditions: consolidation

applications are constantly possible

Support in the financing of projects that help securing the chances of success and the creation and securing employment

Link to details

special terms and conditions: Bridge-Finance-Guarantees due to the Corona Virus Crisis

With June 15, 2022 the application period for „aws-Bridge-Finance-Guarantees“ has ended.

The aim is to facilitate the financing of working capital loans from companies whose sales and earnings development is impaired by order, delivery or other market changes due to the "corona virus crisis".

Link to details

 

Your contact for projects up to 1 Mio. EUR

Anton Neunteufl
Anton Neunteufl
Garantien und Prämien für KMU
Maria Hüttmair
Maria Hüttmair
Garantien und Prämien für KMU
Mag.<sup>a</sup> Katharina Novakovic
Mag. Katharina Lichtenecker
Garantien und Prämien für KMU
Mag. (FH) Martina Eigler
Kreditmanagement und Kofinanzierungen für Gründungen und KMU
Luc Pfefferkorn, MSc (WU)
Kreditmanagement und Kofinanzierungen für Gründungen und KMU
Mag. Bernhard Allinger
Kreditmanagement und Kofinanzierungen für Gründungen und KMU

Your contact for projects beyond 1 Mio. EUR

Monika Bednarik-Belan
Monika Bednarik-Belan
Garantien für Industrie und Internationalisierung
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Wilhelm Hantsch-Linhart, MBA
DI Dr. Wilhelm Hantsch-Linhart, MBA
Garantien für Industrie und Internationalisierung
Dr. Georg Silber
Dr. Georg Silber
Kreditmanagement und Kofinanzierungen für Industrie
Hans Peter Oswald
Hans Peter Oswald
Garantien für Industrie und Internationalisierung

The main part of all guarantees issued under this program is made possible by a counter guarantee under EU-programmes like COSME or InnovFin and in connection with the European Plan for Strategic Investment („EFSI“).

EFSI aims at supporting the financing and realisation of productive investments in the European Union thus securing access to finance.