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aws Creative Industries
Boosting innovation !
Pre-Startup
Startup
Growth
International
Innovative processes opens eyes
for unexpected growth opportunities
You have an innovative project or an innovative
business idea in the area of creative industries?
You want to establish a creative business and
lead it to market success? You want to embed
a creative business in your innovative project?
Get your tailormade funding scheme!
aws Creative Industries supports:
—— innovative projects in the context of the creative industries, i.e. projects
that constitute a creative business innovation or whose innovation is
driven by creative industries
—— innovative projects whose development, implementation, marketing etc.
require or embed the performance of creative businesses (Creative
Industries Voucher)
aws Creative Industries offers:
—— training and further qualification for founders and startups in the creative
industries (aws impulse Training)
aws Creative Industries undertakes:
—— activities to position the creative industries within the context of
innovation
—— activities to create awareness for the economic value and the potential
of the creative industries
—— measures to highlight the innovative power of creative industries
aws Creative Industries fosters:
—— the presentation of best practice examples
—— regional and business-specific initiatives in the creative industries
aws impulse XS
Support in the form of a grant for innovative projects in the context of the creative
industries that are still in the early stage
phase. It addresses small and medium
enterprises of all sectors (already existing /
startup) as well as natural persons.
“Sparkling idea!”
Your goal is to realize an innovative product, innovative service or innovative process? How do you find out if it is possible
to implement your idea and develop a
business model? Support provided by
aws can facilitate activities for the contentrelated and economic feasibility of new
and innovative products, services or processes – even from a very early development phase.
Funding is up to a maximum of 70 % of
eligible project costs, with an upper limit
of euro 50.000.
aws impulse XL
Support in the form of a grant for innovative projects in the context of the creative
industries that are in the development
and implementation phase. It addresses
small and medium enterprises of all sectors (already existing / startup).
“Take off!”
You have an idea for an innovative product,
innovative service, innovative process?
A feasibility study has been conducted,
a business model has been prepared –
with prospects for success! So how can
you get your project to take off? Support
provided by aws can help to facilitate
activities in development, first application
or market transition.
Funding is up to a maximum of 50 % of
eligible project costs, with an upper limit
of euro 200,000.
aws Creative Industries Voucher
Support in the form of a grant. This funding
instrument addresses existing small and
medium enterprises of all sectors that
implement innovation projects in cooperation with the creative industries.
“Revive!”
Innovative approaches pay well! In particular,
if you use services offered by the creative
industries – for developing, implementing or
bringing your innovative products, innovative services or innovative processes to the
market.
Funding is up to 100 % of eligible project
costs, with an upper limit of euro 5,000.
aws impulse Training
With individual training and further qualification measures (we-workshops for
entrepreneurs, aws impulse Lectures)
aws Creative Industries provides founders
and young entrepreneurs with the critical
know-how for their business career.
“Worth keeping in mind!”
Successful founders and startups in the
creative industries have crucial creative
potential and economic know-how.
Aiming to increase business competence,
no questions are left unanswered within
the we-workshops for entrepreneurs:
How to develop a business plan? How to
convince a bank? How to obtain financiers
and aws funding? How about rights and
marketing? The workshops are accompanied by continuative aws impulse Lectures,
with business experts providing insight
and outlooks on currently relevant subjects, compiled specifically for the creative
industries.
Boosting creative industries
and showcasing them
Graphic Arts
and Design
Advertising Sector
Music Industry
Fashion
Media and
Publishing Sectors
Architecture
Art Market
Design
Multimedia/Games
Audio-Visual and Film
Production
In order to showcase the promising field of the creative industries, aws Creative Industries initiates its own projects, cooperates with successful initiatives and supports best
practice examples.
7tm I 9 festival for fashion & photography | 360° Design Austria | A Guide Magazine | Art Design Feldkirch
AustriaDesignNet | Austrian Fashion Net | Austrian Mobile Music Day | Be Guided – Austrian Fashion Guide
Blickfang | Creative Business Cup | Design Monat Graz | DESIGN IN TIROL | Designlandschaft Tirol –
Design und Produkt | designforum | European Creative Industries Alliance en:able! Konferenz | European
Design Business Dialogue | impulse on the spot | INCM Vienna | How to be successful with design |
Kooperationsbörse Mode | Media Architecture Days | Modepalast | MQ Vienna Fashion Week | Pioneers
Festival | Spot on Wien – Flashing Austrian Design and Music in Tokio Film, Sound & Media | Staatspreis
Design | Surprising Ingenuity – Austrian Design in Milano | The Gap u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD |
Vienna Design Week | Vlow! | werkraum bregenzerwald
Film Location (FISA)
Film Location Austria (FISA) is a film funding scheme designated to the financial support
of film productions. FISA addresses feature films and documentaries with theatrical
release. It is designed to provide partial financing in the form of a non-repayable grant
for Austrian productions, co-productions with an Austrian partner and international
productions. With this measure, the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy
aims to support the Austrian film industry and to provide the framework conditions
needed in order to establish know-how and value creation in Austria.
www.filmstandort-austria.at
Boosting
innovation
Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft mbH (aws) is the Austrian federal
promotional bank. It assists companies in their implementation of innovative
projects by granting loans, awarding subsidies and issuing guarantees at
favorable interest rates, particularly in cases in which it is not possible for
these companies to obtain the necessary funds in a sufficient amount from
other sources of financing. In addition, it provides support in the form of
specific information, advisory and other services to prospective, established
and expanding companies.
Services provided by aws
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New Launches & Startups
Innovation & Investment
High Technology
Risk Capital
Service
Competition
The assistance provided by aws enables
—— the facilitation of company formations,
—— the procurement of favorable loans in the amount of upwards of
euro 10.000,
—— the facilitation / enabling of the procurement of financing by means
of guarantees,
—— the development and implementation of new forms of innovation,
—— the putting of strategies to the test.
You can obtain more information on financial aid options from your bank of
trust and from the advisers at the chambers of commerce and the funding
agencies within your province.
Detailed information on aws instruments:
www.awsg.at
aws Creative Industries is part of evolve, the strategy of the Federal Ministry of
Science, Research and Economy for the promotion of creative industries based
innovation. aws Creative Industries is the Austrian-wide support programme for
the creative industries. To strengthen companies in the creative industries and to
create awareness for the economic value and the potential of creative work, the
offer ranges from financial support, training and further qualification, to specific
awareness-raising measures. Moreover, aws offers support through products
with a high relevance for companies in the creative sector, including aws Startup
Guarantee, aws Startup Bonus, aws erp Micro Credit, aws Seedfinancing, aws
Patentservice, …
Further information on aws Creative Industries:
T +43 1 501 75 – 0
E kreativwirtschaft@awsg.at
www.awsg.at/en
Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft mbH · Walcherstrasse 11A · 1020 Vienna · Austria
Design: buero bauer
Boosting
the creative industries