The GreenTech Innovation Competition (“GreenTech Innovationswettbewerb”) technology program aims to utilize digital technologies to promote sustainability and climate and environmental protection. It aims to strengthen Germany and Europe as leading high-tech locations for digital technologies and sustainable business models. The program focuses on three areas: the use of digital technologies to enhance sustainability in various… Read more »
Showcase Secure Digital Identities 
The “Showcase Secure Digital Identities” (Schaufenster Sichere Digitale Identitäten) is aimed at strengthening digital sovereignty and making German eIDAS solutions, which are user-friendly, trustworthy and economically viable, more accessible: for administration, business – especially SMEs – and population. The goal is to create application-oriented ID ecosystems that are characterized by openness, interoperability and a simple,… Read more »
5G Campus Networks 
The declared goal of the German government is to take a leading role as a technology provider in the future communication technology 5G and perspectively 6G at the world’s forefront. The BMWK promotes the increased use of public 5G-based networks and the expansion and use of so-called campus networks for the economy. The wireless networking… Read more »
Strategic Individual Projects
Individual projects are designed to drive forward new and outstanding technologies and solutions that are expected to have a long-term and strategic impact in the ICT sector. These diverse projects have a future-oriented focus and are of particular importance for Germany as a business location.
ICT for Electromobility 
Information and communication technologies (ICT) play an important role in electromobility. They control all important functions in the electric vehicle and form the basis for its integration into future intelligent energy and transportation systems. The aim of the BMWK technology program “ICT for electromobility” is to promote the development and testing of ICT-based solution concepts… Read more »
AI Innovation Competition
Innovation in the field of artificial intelligence is to be placed on a broader basis in Germany, and unconventional, disruptive ideas are also to be given opportunities in the future. AI methods are to become even stronger drivers for innovative value networks and the creation of new products and business models in the various sectors… Read more »
Edge Data Economy
With the technology program “Edge Data Economy” (Edge Datenwirtschaft), the BMWK supports research, development and innovation projects in the edge cloud continuum in which the benefits and advantages of edge computing solutions are demonstrated, particularly in economic and also ecological terms, in various application domains. The technology program is intended to help secure German and… Read more »
International Cooperation Projects 
The BMWK supports bilateral cooperation projects with selected partner countries in the European and international area to a limited extent. On the one hand, this is intended to transfer technological developments to foreign application areas and markets and, on the other, to utilize the specific competencies of research institutions and companies from the respective partner… Read more »
Quantum-Computing: Applications for Business 
With the funding program “Quantum Computing – Applications for Business”, the BMWK supports research, development and innovation projects that prove and demonstrate the technical feasibility, viability and usefulness of quantum computing using relevant, practical use cases as examples.