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Emergency credit; application
The acute loan supports companies experiencing liquidity and profitability difficulties in the interest of preserving jobs.
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General, technology-oriented and digital business incubators; uptake
19 digital incubators at 28 locations as well as another 40 or so general and technology-oriented incubators throughout Bavaria serve as central contact points to promote start-ups.
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Everyday skills - schools for life; application for funding for measures at non-governmental schools
Non-governmental schools can apply for funding for practical weeks or practical modules as part of the "Everyday Skills - School for Life" concept.
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Literacy courses; application for funding
With the funding "ALPHA+ besser lesen und schreiben" (ALPHA+ better reading and writing), a financial incentive is to be offered to suitable providers throughout Bavaria for the implementation of literacy courses for adults.
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Literacy courses for asylum seekers; application for funding
The Free State of Bavaria supports literacy courses for asylum seekers as part of a model project.
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Elderly care and hospice and palliative care; application for funding for continuing education.
The Free State of Bavaria grants subsidies for measures for further training in geriatric care and hospice and palliative care.
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Outpatient assisted living communities; application for funding for new outpatient assisted living communities.
The Free State of Bavaria funds measures to establish and expand new outpatient assisted living communities for adults in need of care (start-up funding).
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Offers for support in everyday life; application for a grant
Offers of support in everyday life in accordance with Section 45a of the German Social Code (SGB XI) are intended to provide hourly relief for people in need of care and their family caregivers. The Free State of Bavaria supports these services together with the umbrella organization of the long-term care insurance funds. Sponsors of recognized offers of support in everyday life can receive a grant within the framework of project funding.
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Work with relatives; application for funding
By providing psychosocial counseling, accompanying support and relief for family caregivers of elderly people in need of care, the specialized centers for family caregivers are intended to prevent family members from falling ill and becoming nursing cases themselves as a result of the care they often provide over a long period of time (work with family members). The sponsors of specialized centers for family caregivers can receive a grant within the framework of project funding.
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Contract bond; application
Under the "Order Guarantees" programme, LfA Förderbank Bayern provides default guarantees for sureties for domestic and foreign orders and for order-related advance financing, which are assumed or granted by the applicants' house banks.
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Visual artists; application for a studio grant
Visual artists may receive a monthly grant to cover their studio expenses for a period of two years.
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Biotechnology and genetic engineering, life sciences; application for funding
The Free State of Bavaria supports cooperation projects in the field of life sciences, with a focus on biotechnology and genetic engineering, provided that they can be attributed to industrial research or experimental development.
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Biomass heating plant; application for a grant
With the BioKlima funding program, Bavaria supports investments in new, environmentally friendly biomass heating plants.
Note on the BioKlima funding program
The BioKlima funding program will be continued in a revised form from March 10, 2022. As of this date, applications can be submitted in accordance with the new, revised funding guidelines.
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Guarantee; application for assumption
In order to obtain bank loans, it is generally necessary to provide sufficient bank collateral. Small and medium-sized enterprises in particular often do not have such collateral. They therefore have difficulty in covering their capital requirements. Guarantees from LfA-Förderbank Bayern and Bürgschaftsbank Bayern are also intended to enable these companies to take out loans.
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Computer game; application for funding
The Free State of Bavaria supports the production and development of high-quality and non-violent computer and video games with funds from the Bavarian State Ministry for Digital Affairs.
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Digitalbonus Bavaria; application for funding
With the Digital Bonus funding program, the Free State of Bavaria wants to support small businesses in equipping themselves for the challenges of the digital world.
The Digital Bonus makes it possible to digitize through hardware and software and to improve IT security.
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Digital regional home projects; application for funding.
The Free State of Bavaria promotes innovative homeland projects with a focus on digitization that have a positive impact on Bavaria's spatial development and, in particular, serve to strengthen regional identity.
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Business start-up; consulting and promotion
In the Free State of Bavaria, the prospects of being successfully self-employed are particularly favorable. In order to make Bavaria the front-runner in terms of start-ups, the Bavarian state government has launched the Gründerland.Bayern initiative.
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Extended Realities; application for funding
The Free State of Bavaria supports the development of high-quality, creative XR formats that are particularly innovative in terms of user experience. To strengthen Bavaria as a media location, the program also supports the presentation of XR projects developed in Bavaria at selected international festivals and conferences.
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Family care; application for funding
Family care helps to support families in special emergency and crisis situations, to maintain their ability to function and to avoid the out-of-home placement of children. The sponsors of family care stations can receive a grant within the framework of project funding.
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Film and television; application for funding
The FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF Bayern) is responsible for film funding in Bavaria. It supports the production of theatrical and television films. Other funding areas include, for example, script, newcomer, distribution and sales funding, as well as film theaters, series, web series, virtual reality. International co-productions and visual effects (VFX) are also funded.
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Promotional bank; information
The development bank of the Free State of Bavaria is LfA Förderbank Bayern. It operates in the business areas of start-up, growth, innovation, energy and environment, stabilization, infrastructure and other financing (e.g. contract guarantees).
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All-day offer; application for the establishment and promotion of bound all-day offers
The Free State of Bavaria promotes all-day schooling in order to enable mothers and fathers, among others, to reconcile family and career as well as appropriate forms of family division of labour. Bound all-day programmes are approved upon application by the school's sponsor.
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All-day offer; application for the establishment and promotion of open all-day offers
The Free State of Bavaria supports open all-day programs at schools. Open all-day programs are approved upon application by the school's sponsor.
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Health bonus for private vocational schools of health care; application
The providers of private vocational schools for dieticians, ergotherapists, speech therapists, massage therapists, orthoptists, pharmaceutical assistants, physiotherapists, podiatrists and for technical assistants in medicine receive a class subsidy (health bonus) in addition to the statutory benefits of the operating subsidy and - indirectly - the state tuition reimbursement, if they waive the collection of additional tuition fees directly from the students.
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Commercial enterprises; application for a State guarantee
The Land of Bavaria provides state guarantees for loans to finance projects in the commercial sector.
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Commercial economy; application for funding.
The Free State of Bavaria promotes investments of commercial projects of regional economic importance in the fields of industry, handicraft, trade, tourism and other services.
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Information and communication technology; application for funding
The Free State of Bavaria supports companies in research and development projects in the field of digitization and information and communications technology.
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Innovation vouchers for small enterprises and craft enterprises; application for funding
The Free State of Bavaria promotes research and development services for small enterprises/handicraft enterprises in the field of general technologies.
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Cinema; Application for funding within the framework of the Future Cinema Program
If you want to invest in your cinema, you can apply for a subsidy under certain conditions.
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Hospital investments; application for funding
The Free State of Bavaria promotes the necessary investments of the hospitals included in its hospital plan (acute inpatient hospital care).
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Bavarian Cultural Fund; application for funding
The Free State of Bavaria operates project and investment funding in the arts sector and project funding in the education sector.
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Short-term care places; application for funding for the creation of short-term care places in full inpatient care facilities.
The Free State of Bavaria promotes the provision of short-term care places in inpatient care facilities.
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Agriculture and forestry; funding guide
The funding guide provides an overview and detailed information for practitioners on all funding programmes and compensatory payments in agriculture, forestry and the food industry. The breadth of the offer illustrates that the state government strives to take into account different regional and operational circumstances and to work towards the highest possible efficiency.
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Rural area; application for funding from the EU LEADER funding programme
With the LEADER programme, the Bavarian State Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry supports rural regions on their way to self-determined development according to the motto "Citizens shape their homeland". LEADER is a proven instrument for the promotion of innovative ideas and projects that contribute significantly to the development and strengthening of rural areas.
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Landscape conservation and nature parks; application for funding
The Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection grants subsidies for measures to maintain, preserve and develop protected areas and individual components of nature worthy of protection as well as for measures for nature-compatible recreation in nature parks.
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Agriculture; application for compensatory allowance for disadvantaged areas
In the less-favored areas, farmers receive a compensatory allowance for income disadvantages due to natural unfavorable site conditions or other specific production disadvantages. The payments are intended to contribute to the continuation of agriculture in these areas and to the preservation of the landscape as well as to promote sustainable farming methods.
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LIFE program; application for funding
The LIFE program is the EU's financial instrument for the environment.
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Medical technology, life science; application for funding
The Free State of Bavaria supports cooperation projects in the field of life sciences, with a focus on medical technology, provided that they can be attributed to industrial research or experimental development.
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Lunch-time supervision at elementary and special schools; application for funding
The Free State of Bavaria funds groups of midday care to support reliable care for children after the scheduled end of classes.
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Non-governmental museums; application for funding
The Free State of Bavaria awards grants for projects in the field of non-governmental museums via the Landesstelle für die nichtstaatlichen Museen.
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Non-governmental theaters; application for funding.
The Free State of Bavaria grants subsidies for the institutional support of professional and nationally significant theaters and other institutions in the field of the performing arts with headquarters and performance areas in Bavaria, which perform dramatic, musical or choreographic stage works primarily with artists employed by them.
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Care in the social local area; application for funding
The Free State of Bavaria promotes the comprehensive and needs-based expansion of the nursing care structure so that people in need of care can remain at home in their familiar surroundings - in their local social environment - for as long as possible.
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Nursing bonus for private vocational schools in certain training areas; application.
The sponsors of private vocational schools in the training occupations of geriatric care, geriatric nursing assistance, child care, social care, social pedagogy (educators), curative education and curative education assistance receive, in addition to the statutory benefits, an operating subsidy and - indirectly - tuition reimbursement with an additional subsidy (class subsidy) if they waive the collection of additional tuition directly from the students. The private vocational schools in the geriatric nursing professions also receive a so-called school-related base amount.
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Private alternative schools; application for reimbursement of school fees
The Free State of Bavaria grants reimbursement of school fees for pupils at private alternative schools in accordance with Art. 47 BaySchFG.
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Private special schools; application for funding.
The Free State of Bavaria grants subsidies to the sponsors of private special schools for the necessary school expenses as well as compensation for the necessary personnel expenses. As an alternative to the reimbursement of personnel costs, state teachers and other personnel are assigned to them.
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Private primary and secondary schools; application for a special grant for the transport of pupils with proven severe disabilities
Private elementary schools and middle schools approved by the school authorities may receive special subsidies for the transportation of pupils with proven severe disabilities.
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Private elementary and secondary schools; application for a grant for construction measures
School board approved private elementary and middle schools may receive grants for construction.
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Private elementary and secondary schools; application for a grant for school expenses.
Private primary and secondary schools approved by the school authorities receive state funding on application by the school authority. Lump-sum subsidies are granted for the necessary school expenses.
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Private schools for the sick; application for funding
The Free State of Bavaria supports the sponsors of private schools for the sick. They receive state subsidies for the necessary school expenses, including the costs of transporting pupils, as well as remuneration for the necessary personnel expenses. Alternatively, state teachers and other staff are assigned to them.
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Private secondary schools; application for an operating grant.
School authorities of private secondary schools, grammar schools, independent Waldorf schools (from grade 5), and second-chance schools receive a subsidy (operating subsidy) in accordance with Art. 38 and Art. 45 (1) of the Bavarian School Financing Act for the necessary personnel expenses and school expenses.
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Private secondary schools; grant application.
After the statutory waiting period of four years, school boards of private secondary schools, grammar schools, independent Waldorf schools (from grade 5), and second-chance schools receive a subsidy amounting to 65% of the operating subsidy under Art. 38 of the Bavarian School Financing Act.
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Cable car; application for funding
The Free State of Bavaria promotes the technical renewal and modernization of ropeways in small ski resorts, including ancillary facilities required for operation.
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Selbstständige Tätigkeit; Förderung bei Aufnahme durch Einstiegsgeld
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Selbstständige Tätigkeit; Förderung bei Aufnahme durch spezifische begleitende Hilfen
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Technology-oriented business start-up; application for a grant
The Free State of Bavaria supports research and development (R&D) projects of founders in the field of general technologies, provided that they can be assigned to industrial research or experimental development.
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Tourism; information about subsidies by the municipality
Find out about the tourism subsidies offered by the municipality.
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Apply for a favourable loan for investments by companies and freelancers
If you need financing for investments or working capital for your commercial enterprise, you can apply for a favourable loan with repayment-free periods under certain conditions.
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Economic development; information on municipal funding opportunities
Counties and municipalities can support investment projects of foreign or domestic investors in the region.
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Economic development; information on government funding opportunities
Economic development serves to create new jobs and maintain existing ones. Public development loans and grants enable start-ups and medium-sized companies to achieve this goal, which is important for our population, the economy and all Bavarian regions.
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Housing promotion; application for a state guarantee
The Free State of Bavaria provides state guarantees to finance the construction, acquisition and modernisation of housing.
