EXIST Business Start-up Grant
The EXIST Business Start-up Grant supports students, graduates and scientists from universities and research institutes who want to turn their business idea into a business plan. The start-up projects should be innovative technology or knowledge based projects with significant unique features and good commercial prospects of success.
Who is supported by the fund?
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Scientists from public, non-profit research institutes or universities
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University graduates and former academic staff members (up to five years after getting a degree or dropping out).
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Students who have completed at least half of their studies at the time of applying.
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Entrepreneur Teams of up to three people. Teams that are made up of a majority of students are only funded in exceptional cases.
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One of the maximum of three team members may have a qualifying professional education and can be funded as the technical staff or one of the team members may have a degree that is more than five years old.
What will be funded?
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Innovative technology based start-up projects.
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Innovative knowledge based services based on scientific findings.
Universities and research institutes submit the proposal, which must be written in German. The application may be submitted at any time. More details can be found at: http://www.exist.de/EN/programme/EXIST-Business-Startup-Grant/content.html