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As a reliable, long-term partner, Brandenburg supports companies in the Capital Region with established funding programmes for implementing innovative business ideas, and when it comes down to promoting growth, training your employees or helping start-ups get off the ground.
Read about the most important funding programmes here:
GRW-G Large Directive
- enterprises in the commercial sector with business premises in the state of Brandenburg
- Eligible expenditure for which grants may be provided on a proportionate basis
- Expenditure eligible for support minimum 100,000 EUR
- Expenditure eligible for support maximum 750,000 EUR per newly created permanent job or maximum 500,000 EUR per permanently secured job
- → Project may not be started ahead of schedule (application must be submitted to the ILB)
Production and service investments in real capital
| Assisted area* C | Assisted area* D | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LE | ME | SE | ME | SE | |
| Base funding | 10% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 20% |
| SME supplement | --- | 10% | 20% | --- | --- |
| Structural impact met* or establishment or acquisition or access to funding +10% jobs
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5% | 5% | 5% | --- | --- |
| Border area bonus | 10% | 10% | 10% | --- | --- |
| Funding ceiling | 25% | 35% | 45% | 10% | 20% |
* see map of assisted areas (below > More information)
Transformation investments in real capital
- Additional bonus for medium-sized enterprises (ME): 45% + 10% = max. 55%
- Additional bonus for small enterprises (SE): 45% + 20% = max. 65%
GRW-G Growth programme for small enterprises
- small enterprises (<50 employees) in the commercial sector with permanent establishments in the state of Brandenburg
Production and service investments to
- Establish a new permanent establishment
- Expand the capacities of a permanent establishment
- Diversify production of a permanent establishment ‒ include new products
- Make a fundamental change to the overall production process of an existing permanent establishment
- Acquire a permanent establishment that has been closed down or is threatened with closure
- Eligible expenditure for which grants may be provided on a proportionate basis
- Expenditure eligible for support minimum 60,000 EUR to maximum 3 million EUR
- Expenditure eligible for support maximum 750,000 EUR per newly created permanent job or maximum 500,000 EUR per permanently secured job
| Assisted area* C | Assisted area* D | |
|---|---|---|
| Basic funding for SE | 35% | 20% |
| Border area bonus | 10% | --- |
| Funding ceiling | 45% | 20% |
* see map of assisted areas (below > More information)
→ Project may not be started ahead of schedule (application must be submitted to the ILB)
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Innovative start-ups and entrepreneurs?
Grant programme for the promotion of start-ups
of innovative and socially-innovative companies
- Innovative companies
- Freelancers
- market-oriented social enterprises up to three years after foundation
- Requirement → Business location in the state of Brandenburg
- Investment measures
- Non-investment measures
- Personnel costs
- Non-repayable grant between €25-150 K
- Funding rate up to 50%
Brandenburg Innovation Voucher (BIG-Digital)
Funding programme to promote digitalization projects for SMEs
- Profil-oriented small and medium-sized commercial enterprises
with headquarter or business locations in the state of Brandenburg
- Preparation and implementation of digitalisation measures
- Grant up to €300 K
Brandenburg Innovation Specialists (BIF)
Funding programme for the employment of highly skilled young professionals
(e.g. working students and innovation assistants)
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
with headquarter or business locations in the state of Brandenburg
Within the framework of an operational innovation task, funding is provided for the
- recruitment student trainees
- recruitment of university graduates
- recruitment of graduates of a regulated upgrading vocational training course
- Grant for personnel costs
Social innovations
Program to promote new labor market policy approaches in Brandenburg companies
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Natural persons
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Legal entities under private and public law
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Legal partnerships
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Development projects to devise and develop innovative approaches, especially to prepare and design the content of pilot projects
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Model projects to test existing innovative approaches, e.g. to restructure work and production processes
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Development projects: personnel and material expenses; funding: up to 50,000 euros
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Model projects: personnel expenses and material expenses; funding: up to 300,000 euros
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- Employees whose company is located in Brandenburg
- Company owners
- Sole proprietors and freeelancers
- External vocational training services
- Unlimited number of participants
- Restrictions → Regular training prescribed by law is not eligible for funding
- Grant for further training costs and exam fees
- A maximum of 50 per cent of the eligible expenditure
- Requested grant must amount to at least €1,000
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Innovations need courage. And this is especially true for start-ups and new businesses. Which is why we support and advise you in the following areas:
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