Personnel expenditure

  • Company establishment and development
  • Investment and working capital for the development and market launch of products, services and processes
Today's founders are tomorrow's employers. There is always room at the top. In order to support the creation of jobs and the development of human resources, ILB supports start-ups and young companies through a number of promotional programmes.

Our promotional programmes for personnel expenditure:

(If you are interested in more detailed information regarding the programmes and the application process, please click the respective links in the table.)Working students

Core programmes

ProgrammeSupport subjectsSupport types
Brandenburger Innovationsfachkräfte (Expires on July 31, 2024)Employment of:
  • Working students
  • Innovation assistants (university graduates)
Grant- Working students: up to EUR 645 per month for up to 12 month- Innovation assistants: up to EUR 1,650 per month for up to 24 months
Weiterbildungsrichtlinie 2026External vocational training, including examination fees, both employees of companies in Brandenburg and business owners who are also employees Grant-Funding rate up to 50 % of the total eligible expenses (minimum funding amount EUR 1.000 per application).-Funding is available at any time, even multiple times per calendar year.
Gründung innovativ 2022
  • Start-up salary:
    • personal costs for managing persons in an employment relationship
    • private withdrawals by owners
  • Innovation stimulus:
    • investments in tangible fixed assets
    • Personnel costs for new jobs
    • technical advice and development services
GrantFor each funding item EUR 30,000 to 180,000 (Support rate of up to 60%))
ProFIT Brandenburg 2023 (Individual and collaboration projects involving technologically new products, services and processes during the following phases:
  • Industrial research (grant)
  • Experimental development (loan)
  • market preparation and market launch (loan), max. implementation period: 3 years
  • Process and organizational innovations (grant), max. implementation period: 3 years (Funding is generally awarded only through a competitive process)
  • feasibility studies (Grant), max. implementation period: 6 months
Loan/grant-Funding through grants is limited to a total of EUR 3 million per application. (Funding rate for total project up to 80%)-Funding through loans is limited to a total of EUR 3 million per application.
GRW-G Growth program for small enterprises
  • Investment in tangible fixed assets
  • Wage costs for 2 years (new high-quality jobs)
  • Intangible assets (limited)
Grant(Support rate of 20% to 45%)

Other suitable programmes

ProgrammeSupport subjectsSupport types
JTF-Startgeld KMU
  • SMEs in the commercial sector that are no older than three years at the time of application
  • The founder must be the main person working in the funded SME
  • Establishment of a new business premises
  • Expansion of the capacities of an existing business premises (extension)
  • Diversification (expansion of the business activity) of business premises
Grant- Startgeld Lausitz (Just Transition Fund)70 percent of the flat-rate, eligible expenses- for a maximum of 12 months, up to a total of EUR 24,360
Early-phase financing
  • Company foundation
  • Innovation as well as technology and product development
  • Market and product tests
  • Market launch
Equity financingOpen equity and/or equity-like investment for technology-oriented small enterprises (SMEs) in Brandenburg in the seed and start-up phase (max. EUR 1.5 million)
Financing for growth
  • Market launch and further development of products
  • innovation
  • Company growth
  • Strengthening competitiveness Opening up new markets
Equity financingActive investments and/or participation-like investments in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Brandenburg during the growth and expansion phase within the scope of co-investments with private investors(max. EUR 6 million)
Brandenburg-Kredit Gründung (based on ERP-Förderkredit KMU or KfW-Förderkredit großer Mittelstand)
  • within 5 years after foundation:
  • Investments, working capital, stock of goods
  • Start-up
  • Company acquisition and participation
Loan- up to EUR 3 million per project (Higher financing amounts are also possible upon agreement)- Application via the principal bank
Brandenburg-Kredit Mikro
  • Start-ups and young companies in the first ten years after foundation
  • Company successors
  • Start-ups in main and secondary occupation
  • Business related capital goods and operating resources
Loan- at least EUR 2,000- maximum EUR 25,000 per project

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