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aws Preseed – Innovative Solutions

Status

Open continuously

No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.

Always open
Amount
€100,000

Max EUR 100,000 with gender bonus (EUR 89,000 without); 80% of eligible costs (90% with gender bonus); at least 10% from shareholders' equity.

You must co-fund 20%. Work out the cash you need

Funder

Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH (aws)

public · national

Deadline: Open all year — Ongoing submission via aws Fördermanager; several decision dates per year.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
major

Major bid — written case, budget, possibly partners.

You fund 20% yourself.

Who can apply

Start-up teams before incorporation, companies up to 6 months after registration, or established companies up to 5 years after incorporation; project location in Austria; social/ecological added value as core component; project max 1 year.

How to apply

  1. Check the target group: start-up teams before incorporation, or companies registered in the Commercial Register no more than 6 months ago (micro and small enterprises). — link
  2. Prepare the project and financing plan showing the required equity and other own contributions.
  3. Submit through the aws Fördermanager; applications are decided at one of several decision dates per year. — link

What you will need

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · The EU SME definition (Recommendation 2003/361)

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.aws.at/en/aws-preseed-innovative-solutions/

"The maximum possible grant amounts to EUR 100,000 ... 80 % of eligible costs, with 10 % to be contributed as equity by shareholders ... max. 6 months after their registration in the Commercial Register ... Ongoing; several decision dates per year."

Last checked against the official page on 5 October 2026

Source: www.aws.at

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