Financing and competitions

The program includes scholarships for students as well as the employment of working students and innovation assistants.

The Loan Guarantee Bank of Berlin offers guarantees to secure loans, working capital loans and other investments.

The BPW is the largest regional start-up competition in Germany and supports founders with free workshops, prize money and feedback.

The German Innovation Award honours outstanding, forward-looking innovations from German companies, including in the Start-Ups category.

Start-up teams can apply for the EXIST start-up grant via Viadrina and receive up to 12 months of financial support to develop their business plan with the support of the university and bring their innovative, technology-orientated or knowledge-based business idea with clear unique selling points to start-up maturity.

Grow is a start-up competition for students in which a specific business idea is sufficient to participate.

Start-up Live includes two competitions: The ideas competition is aimed at people with good ideas for start-ups - from all areas of society. The start-up competition is aimed at all people who have already founded a business and taken their own path.

A Germany-wide competition for start-ups in which innovative information and communication technologies are a central component of the product or service.

The aim of the Innovation Prize of the capital region is to promote, present and honor future and marketable developments by founders.

A source of financial support for new and young companies in the state of Brandenburg.

The KfW Banking Group honors companies in the first five years of their business operations with the KfW Reasons Award. Start-ups from all sectors that are based in Germany can apply for the prize.

Their offers include numerous loan offers including questionnaires to find the right funding.

Creative Brandenburg offers an overview of funding and scholarships for cultural workers and founders in the creative industries.

The award is for companies, self-employed people, founders and projects from the cultural and creative industries and their interfaces to other sectors, which is presented on behalf of the federal government.

Together with Auctor Actor Advisor and the category partners, WirtschaftsWoche promotes visionary start-ups with the Founder Award that have the potential to help shape the economy of the future and drive change in all industries.

The German Sustainability Prize Foundation is awarding the Next Economy Award for the fifth time in collaboration with the Council for Sustainable Development and the DIHK. The NEA is an award for startups that focus on social and ecological sustainability.

Start Me Up! is the start-up competition of BILANZ Deutschland Wirtschaftsmagazin GmbH. The prerequisite for an application is an innovative and technically ambitious business model from all areas of the economy.

Every year Weconomy looks for the most innovative start-ups in Germany - start-ups that want to get started with technical know-how and a brilliant business idea.

Advice on the start-up roadmap and financing of projects is offered.