Digitization with the help of state funding
The state and the federal states have decided to promote digitization for small and medium-sized enterprises. There are different funding options depending on the federal state. In terms of the amount of funding, a distinction is usually made between small companies (fewer than 50 employees and a maximum annual turnover of €10 million) and medium-sized companies (fewer than 250 employees and a maximum annual turnover of €50 million).
Field service software to digitalize your service processes is eligible for funding in all cases. Take advantage of the funding opportunities and at the same time benefit from increased efficiency in service and paperless deployment documentation.
Below you will find a detailed overview of the type and scope of funding in Germany.
Support measures in Germany at a glance
Environmental protection and safety funding program (formerly De-minimis)
Funding topics: Safety, environment, freight transport
Funding amount: max. 33.000€
Type of funding: Grant
Federal state: Germany-wide
ERP digitization and innovation loan
Funding topics: Investments, working capital, overall financing requirements of an innovative company
Funding amount: between € 25,000 and € 25 million
Type of funding: Loan
Federal state: Germany-wide
Digitization Premium Plus
Funding topics: Digitization projects and measures to improve IT security, training courses
Funding amount: €5,000 to €100,000
Funding type: 1st variant subsidy, 2nd variant Loan
Federal state: Baden-Württemberg
Innovation loan 4.0
Funding topics: Digitization
Delivery head: min. 25,000€, max. 7.5 million (up to 100% of the eligible costs can be financed)
Type of funding: Loan
State: Bavaria
Hamburg Digital
Funding topics: Module 1 Check: Consulting services for digitization strategies, Module 2 Invest: Investments to implement the developed strategies and concepts (IT hardware and software, but also external service providers)
Delivery head: min. 3,000€ in both modules, module 1 max. 5,000€ (max. 50% of the funding amount), Module 2 max. 17,000€ (max. 30% of the funding amount)
Type of funding: Grant
Federal state: Hamburg
Innovation credit 2023
Funding topics: tangible and intangible investments and operating resources, e.g. digitalization
Funding amount: up to 100% of the funding amount, min. 100,000€, max. 7.5 million €
Type of funding: Loan
Federal state: Hesse
Digi grant
Funding topics: Digitization and improvement of IT security
Funding amount: max. up to 50% of the funding amount, max. 10.000€, min. 4.000€
Type of funding: Grant
Federal state: Hesse
NRW.bank.digitalization.and.innovation
Funding topics: Digital equipment, digitization, innovations
Funding amount: up to 100% of the funding amount, max. 10 million €
Type of funding: Loan
Federal state: North Rhine-Westphalia
Mittelstand Innovative & Digital
Funding topics: MID assistant wage subsidy, MID digitization: implementing digital solutions, MID analysis: discovering potential, MID innovation: (further) developing ideas
Subsidy amount: Wage subsidy max. 45,000€, digitization and analysis max. 15,000€, development max. 40.000€
Type of funding: Grant
Federal state: North Rhine-Westphalia
Implementation of operational innovations (IBI)
Funding topics: Investments in the digitalization of business models
Funding amount: Small businesses up to 20% of the funding amount, min. 250,000, medium-sized companies up to 10% of the funding amount, min. 500,000, for both max. 5 million €
Type of funding: Grant
Federal state: Rhineland-Palatinate
Promotion of digitization measures
Funding topics: Improving IT security, improving digital business models or the digitalization of processes or the digitalization of products and procedures
Funding amount: Small businesses min. 25,000 consultant costs, eligible expenditure max. 20.000€
Type of funding: Grant
Federal state: Schleswig Holstein
Digitalbonus Thuringia
Funding topics: Digitization, information and data security concepts
Funding amount: up to 50% of the funding amount, min. 5,000€, max. 150.000€
Type of funding: Grant
Federal state: Thuringia
All information without guarantee (as of March 2024)
