Förderdatenbank

The Förderdatenbank is the German government's own register of funding programmes - grants, loans, guarantees and equity, from federal ministries, the development banks and each of the sixteen Laender. It is the single place German public funding is catalogued, and it is far larger than the EU call list.

The German federal funding database, published by the BMWE

Germany: federal, all sixteen Laender, and the development banks

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For a German SME this matters more than the EU calls

EU calls are large, competitive and written for consortia. Most of the money a smaller German company can realistically apply for is national or regional - a Land investment grant, a development-bank loan, a guarantee - and it is listed here and nowhere else. If you have been watching the EU portal alone, this is the part of the market you have not been seeing.

EU calls and national programmes

An EU call is published once, centrally, and is open to applicants across the member states. National and regional funding is published by each country instead, in its own register and its own language - the Förderdatenbank in Germany, the BDNS in Spain, Incentivi.gov.it in Italy, and so on. Most of the money a smaller company can realistically apply for is national or regional rather than EU wide, which is why the national registers are the larger part of this list.

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