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We consider funding in the context of your project: what do you want to achieve and what support could be suitable?

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Funding & finance

Big ideas.
More room to grow

Funding programmes can support digitalisation, AI and training. We help you assess your project and find an appropriate path.

What would you like to change? We explore your project and which funding route could fit.

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Funding example

BIG-Digital

Brandenburg Innovation Voucher

up to50%

grant towards eligible expenditure

Consultingup to €50,000

For eligible SMEs with a business establishment in Brandenburg. Clarify eligibility and project start dates in advance; the required initial consultation is provided by WFBB. Approval is decided by the funding authority.

Programme details at ILB

Based elsewhere? We can explore which programmes may fit your business and your project.

Before you commission

Apply first.
Then commission

The most common way to lose funding is to commission work before the funding body allows it. As a rule, placing an order with a service provider already counts as starting the project. Settle the funding route first and only then award contracts.

Earliest project start per funding programme
ProgrammeEarliest project start
BIG-Digital, BrandenburgOnce ILB confirms receipt of your complete application. Before that, a meeting with WFBB and a session with ILB’s funding advisers are mandatory.
Digital Innovation, Saxony-AnhaltFrom the day your application is received, at your own risk.
Digitalisation EFRE, SaxonyNot before the confirmation email for your application arrives.

Permission to start early is not a funding commitment. The funding body decides whether and how much it funds.

Brandenburg in detail

Three modules.
One project

BIG-Digital distinguishes three types of project. Each has its own purpose, and they build on one another. The funding rate is 50 percent, and each project needs at least €5,000 of eligible expenditure.

Consulting

  • An analysis of your business processes for digitalisation potential, leading to tailored solutions and recommendations
  • External consulting by companies or research institutions is eligible
  • Grant of up to €50,000, normally within six months

Our AI consulting analyses your workflows and ends with prioritised use cases and a roadmap.

AI consulting

Implementation

  • New organisational or process methods using new digital technologies
  • Eligible costs include your own project staff, the hardware and software required, including software as a service, and supporting third-party services
  • Simply buying hardware or software does not qualify
  • Grant of up to €250,000, normally within two years

Our AI development puts a workflow into practice and connects it to your systems.

AI development

Training

  • Upskilling your staff for an implementation project, alongside it or afterwards
  • Grant of up to €50,000

Our workshops only qualify here when they prepare your team for such an implementation project.

Workshops

If a consulting project was funded, you can only apply for implementation once it is complete. Whether your specific project is eligible is decided by ILB, based on an expert opinion from WFBB.

Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony

Same goal.
Different rules

Outside Brandenburg, different requirements apply. These differences decide whether a programme fits your project.

Saxony-Anhalt

  • Applications only in rounds. The next opens on 16 November 2026 at 13:00 and closes after 90 applications
  • Up to 50 percent, at most €70,000. Total costs at most €200,000, consulting eligible only up to €6,000
  • Projects are selected on points, including a cost-effectiveness assessment showing that the project pays for itself within five years

Saxony

  • Currently open only in the city of Leipzig, the district of Leipzig and North Saxony
  • A project consisting only of consulting is not funded
  • Eligible costs include software, necessary hardware and introducing the solution, including training. Rented software must run for at least 24 months, and maintenance contracts are not eligible

The dot marks an application round with a fixed date.

Frequently asked

Questions about funding

Our role

We help you assess.
You decide

We look at funding in the context of your project. We assess which programmes may apply, prepare the project and documents with you, and support you through the application and implementation. Your business submits the application to the funding body and attends any mandatory advice sessions, such as those with WFBB and ILB. Only the funding body decides on approval.

The first conversation with us is free and without obligation. You will hear back within one working day.

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