Type of financing and consultation

• Grant
• Sector-specific consulting, intellectual property rights consulting and coaching
• Tapping into further sources of financing

Financing amount

• up to EUR 200,000
• The maximum amount of funding can only be applied for if at least one woman is a future shareholder with more than 25% shares in the business and works in a management position. Otherwise the funding cap is EUR 170,000.

Eligible costs

• Personnel costs
• Direct project-related costs for scientific implementation, review and preparation of the “Proof of Concept”
• Costs of studies and drafts
• Costs of product development and market launch
• Costs of materials
• in case of investments pro-rata AfA [depreciation for wear and tear] is eligible within the project duration

Project duration

up to 2 years

Disbursement

You will receive the grant in tranches upon reaching predefined milestones.

Repayment

Non-repayable

Costs

none

Additional funding

aws Seedfinancing – Deep Tech

aws Connect

European Innovation Council / Horizon Europe

• Products or further developments, which conform to the current state of technology or merely have the goal of gradual improvement (i.e. incremental innovations)
• Investments beyond the funding period 
• Vehicles
• Costs that do not constitute an essential precondition for successful project completion and achievement of goals
• Invoice documents under EUR 150, excluding VAT

1. You apply for funding via the aws funding manager.
2. We analyse the application based on content and formal criteria.
3. We will invite you for a discussion if required.
4. We decide whether you can pitch your project to the external assessment panel.
5. We jointly coordinate all necessary documents with you.
6. Projects from the life science sector are reviewed in the assessment panel by the Ethics Council.
7. You present your project to the external assessment panel (pitch).

Approval period

Depending on the deadlines of approval panels, which are held several times a year.

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