EXIST Business Start-up Grant

These requirements are necessary:

Requirement 1

✓ Your company has not been founded yet.
✓ Your project is innovative and knowledge or technology oriented.
✓ Your project offers an innovative knowledge-based service or a product based on scientific findings.

Requirement 2

✓ You are a scientist from a public, non-profit, non-university research institution or higher education institution. 
✓ You have graduated from a higher education institution or worked as a research associate (up to 5 years after graduation or leaving the position). 
✓ You are currently studying and have completed at least half of your studies (in terms of credit points) at the time of application.

Special cases for teams: 

1. Your team may consist of a maximum of 3 members.
2. Your team can also be funded if one team member has a state-recognised vocational qualification.
3. A team member may have graduated more than 5 years ago.
4. Teams that are made up of a majority of students are only funded in exceptional cases.