Digital bonus 2021 for your online shop

Your own online shop has never been so cheap.

We will help you quickly, easily and professionally in realizing your online shop. Ask us for a non-binding offer. This gives you an overview of the amount of the premium you are entitled to.

Request an offer now

The digitization plan:

• Describes the digitization project
• Specifies the type and number of qualification measures
• Shows the status of digitization in the company and the goals that should be achieved with the investment
• Shows, for example, how the organization in the company is made more efficient, how the company opens up new business areas, how it develops a new business model and / or how its market position is strengthened.

Further requirements:

• The company must have a permanent establishment or branch in Germany in which the investment is made.
• The project must not have started at the time of the funding approval.
• After approval, it usually has to be implemented within twelve months.
• The company must be able to prove that the funds have been used.

These are the goals of the program

• More investments by medium-sized companies in digital technologies as well as qualification and know-how of employees
• More cross-sector digitization processes at SMEs and the skilled trades
• Improved digital business processes in companies
• More opportunities through digital business models
• Strengthening the competitiveness and innovation of SMEs
• Enabling employees to recognize the opportunities of digitization and to initiate new investments in the digitization of their company
• Higher IT security in companies
• Strengthening companies in economically structurally weak regions

Berlin

Berlin Mittelstand 4.0

The state's own funding program for Berlin Mittelstand 4.0 is aimed at small and medium-sized companies in the manufacturing, IT and service industries and is intended to promote the use of Industry 4.0 solutions.

Type of funding: credit
Funding amount: 2 - 6 million euros, 1 - 5.48% pa, 60% assumption of default risk
Funding is provided: consulting services, hardware and software, further training

Application: To the website of the Investitionsbank Berlin

Berlin digital bonus

In addition, the Digtal Premium Berlin offers grants from 7,000 to 17,000 euros for digitization projects by Berlin craftsmen and freelancers and SMEs with up to 249 employees.

Type of funding: grant
Amount of funding: Freelancers & SMEs up to 10 employees up to 7,000 euros, SMEs between 10 and 249 employees up to 17,000 euros.
Funding is provided: consulting services, hardware and software, further training

Application: To the website of the Investitionsbank Berlin

Funding Brandenburg

Brandenburg Innovation Voucher (BIG) -Digital

The Brandenburg innovation voucher is intended to support regional SMEs with up to 249 employees in digitization and the implementation of innovation measures. The Ministry of Economics, Labor and Energy of the State of Brandenburg (MWAE for short).

Type of funding: grant
Funding amount: 5,000 to 550,000 euros, max. 50 - 100% of the total investment
Funding is provided: consulting services, hardware and software, further training

Application: To the website of the Investment Bank of the State of Brandenburg

Digitization funding Bavaria

Digital bonus, Bavaria Standard / Plus

The Digitalbonus.Bayern Standard is intended to support small and medium-sized companies with up to 249 employees in digitization. In particular, digital improvements and innovations of products, processes and innovations are promoted, as well as investments in IT security and the necessary hardware.

Type of funding: grant
Funding amount: up to 10,000 euros, max. 30 - 50% of the total investment
Funding is provided: consulting services, hardware and software, IT security

The Digitalbonus.Bayern Plus is intended to support small and medium-sized companies with up to 249 employees in digitization projects with a "special innovation content".

Type of funding: grant
Funding amount: up to 50,000 euros, max. 30 - 50% of the total investment
Funding is provided: consulting services, hardware and software, IT security
Innovation Loan 4.0

In addition, the Free State of Bavaria offers SMEs with up to 249 employees as part of the Innovation Loan 4.0 funding loan for digitization projects.

Type of funding: credit
Funding amount: 25,000 - 7.5 million euros, 1 - 2.20% pa, 0 - max. 80% assumption of default risk
Funding is provided: consulting services, hardware and software, further training

Application: Go to the Digitalbonus.Bayern page

Funding from Baden-Württemberg

Digitization Premium Plus | Loan / grant

The Baden-Württemberg Digitalization Premium Plus is, on the one hand, a promotional loan with a repayment subsidy or a pure subsidy for digitization measures financed from own resources by small and medium-sized companies with up to 500 employees from Baden-Württemberg.

Digitization bonus plus grant

Type of funding: grant
Funding amount: 10,000 to 20,000 euros, max. 50% of the total investment
Funding is provided: consulting services, hardware and software, further training

Digitization Premium Plus Loan

Type of funding: credit
Funding amount: 10,000 - 200,000 euros, 1 - 2 years repayment-free, individual repayment subsidy, from 1% pa
Funding is provided: consulting services, hardware and software, further training

Application: Go to the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg website

Digitization funding Bremen

Advisory funding program on digitization and work 4.0

The state of Bremen subsidizes advice on digitization and work for advice from digitization consultants and service providers who have to be selected from a pool of certified providers. The subsidy is 50% and can amount to up to 5,000 euros.

Type of funding: grant
Funding amount: max. 5,000 euros, max. 50% of the total investment
The following is funded: Consulting services

Application: Go to the counseling support program on digitization and work 4.0

Funding Hamburg

Hamburg loan innovation

The Hamburg-Kredit Innovation is a loan that is intended to support Hamburg's SMEs with up to 249 employees in investing in digitization measures, including operating resources. The loan, which is 100 percent paid out, is financed by the respective house bank and the Hamburg Investment and Development Bank (IFB for short).

Type of funding: credit
Funding amount: 25,000 - 1.5 million euros, 1 year repayment-free, 0.978 - 5.365% pa
Funding is provided: consulting services, hardware and software, further training

Application: Go to the IFB website

Hesse

Digi grant

The Digi grant is a direct grant for small and medium-sized enterprises from Hessen. The grant is paid out by the Hessen Economic and Infrastructure Bank (WIBank for short).

Type of funding: grant
Funding amount: 4,000 - 10,000 euros, max. 50% of the total investment
The following is funded: Consulting services

Application: To the website of the Hessen Economic and Infrastructure Bank

Digi advice

In addition, the state offers a subsidy for digitization advice, the so-called Digi-Beratung, for small and medium-sized companies with up to 249 employees and the self-employed.

Type of funding: grant
Funding amount: max. 6,000 euros, max. 50% of the total investment
The following is funded: Consulting services

Application: Go to the Hesse digital strategy page

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Promoting digital transformation (DigiTrans)

The funding of the digital transformation (DigiTrans for short) of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania represents a direct subsidy for digitization measures by regional SMEs with up to 249 employees. The payment is made via the state funding institute Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (LFI-MV for short).

Type of funding: grant
Funding amount: 8,000 to 20,000 euros, max. 50% of the total investment
Funding is provided: consulting services, hardware and software, further training

Application: Go to the LFI-MV website

Lower Saxony subsidies

Digital bonus, Lower Saxony

The Digitalbonus.Niedersachsen is a direct grant for SMEs with up to 249 employees, which, depending on the size of the company, finances between 30 and 50% of the total investment. The subsidy applies to both hardware and software investments and is paid out by the Lower Saxony Investment and Development Bank (NBank for short).

Type of funding: grant
Funding amount: 2,500 to 10,000 euros, max. 30 - 50% of the total investment
Funding is provided: consulting services, hardware and software, IT security

Application: To the NBank website

Funding North Rhine-Westphalia

Digitization voucher

The state of North Rhine-Westphalia has two different programs to promote digitization measures by regional SMEs. On the one hand, the digitization voucher for SMEs with up to 249 employees as part of the Mittelstand Innovativ & Digital (MID) initiative, which finances total investments in new software and hardware and consulting proportionally depending on the size of the company.

Type of funding: grant
Funding amount: 5,000 to 10,000 euros, max. 30 - 80% of the total investment
The following is funded: Consulting services

Application: To the website of Projektträger Jülich

Digitization loan

The digitization loan from NRW BANK is a fixed-interest loan of at least 25,000 euros to invest in digitization measures including investments in operating resources for SMEs and large companies.

Type of funding: credit
Funding amount: at least 25,000 - 1.5 million euros, 1 year repayment-free, from 1% pa
Funding is provided: consulting services, hardware and software, further training

Application: Go to the NRW BANK website

Rhineland-Palatinate (new funding)

DigiBoost

The federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate will also start its own “DigiBoost” funding program on March 1, 2021. The program is aimed at SMEs with a maximum of 100 employees and serves as a direct grant of up to 75% of the total investment for digitization projects and comprises a minimum of € 4,000 to a maximum of € 15,000.

Type of funding: grant
Funding amount: up to 75% of the costs of the total investment pro rata, a total of at least 4,000 to 15,000 euros
Funding is provided for: business model innovations, production, hardware and software, IT security

Application: Go to the DigiBoost website

Saarland

DigitalStarter.Saarland

The Saarland digital starter is a direct grant to total investments of at least 5,000 to 10,000 euros for small and medium-sized companies from the Saarland of 20 to 35 percent, depending on the size of the company. The total investment must be used to digitize products, processes, systems or IT security.

Type of funding: grant
Amount of funding: 20 - 30% of the costs of the total investment pro rata, with a total investment of 5,000 to 10,000 euros
Funding is provided: consulting services, hardware and software, IT security

Application: Go to the Digitalstarter.Saarland website

Funding Saxony

Business advice / coaching

The state of Saxony subsidizes digitization measures for small and medium-sized companies with up to 249 employees in Saxony as part of the business consulting / coaching funding program. The program is distributed via the Sächsische AufbauBank (SAB for short).

Type of funding: grant
Funding amount: up to 10,000 euros, up to 50% of the total investment
The following is funded: Consulting services

To the SAB website

Digitization funding Saxony-Anhalt

IB digitization loan

The state of Saxony-Anhalt provides SMEs with up to 249 employees and the self-employed as part of the IB digitization loan to finance digitization measures.

Type of funding: credit
Funding amount: 10,000 - 1.5 million euros, 0.95% pa, 0-2 years with no repayment
Funding is provided: consulting services, hardware and software, further training

Application: To the website of the IB Sachsen-Anhalt

Thuringia

Digital bonus Thuringia

The digital bonus Thuringia is intended to support small and medium-sized companies in the region with digitization projects and covers up to 50% of the costs of the total investment proportionately with up to 15,000 euros, whereby the total investment must be between 5,000 and 150,000 euros. Both software and hardware as well as services are funded. The Thuringia digital bonus is distributed via the Thuringian Aufbaubank.

Type of funding: grant
Funding amount: up to 50% of the costs of the total investment pro rata with up to 15,000 euros, with a total investment amount of 5,000 to 150,000 euros
Funding is provided: consulting services, hardware and software, further training

Application : Go to the Thuringian Aufbaubank website