The FFG Basisprogramm Kleinprojekt offers up to €88,500 in non-repayable funding for your development. We show you how to build the complete application with our new AI tool in hours instead of weeks - end-to-end all the way to the eCall.
What to expect in this issue
- Deep Dive - Your FFG Kleinprojekt application end-to-end with AI
- FörderRadar - New and expiring grants
In the Deep Dive we regularly present a financing or funding topic in detail. Today: Up to €88,500 for your development. Here's how to create your FFG Kleinprojekt application in hours instead of weeks.
The FFG Basisprogramm Kleinprojekt is one of the most common R&D grants in Austria:
Still, many leave the grant on the table because the application eats up weeks: project description, work packages, cost plan, application text. We show you what the FFG wants to see in every step and how you build the complete application in hours.
The FFG evaluates two things above all: the degree of innovation and the technical risk of your project. You have to work out both clearly, along with the target group, exploitation, team and financing. In our tool you describe your project in a structured overview that follows exactly this application logic. You store existing documents as sources, and the AI works with them.
The FFG doesn't want a novel, but a comprehensible work plan: clearly delineated work packages with tasks, milestones and a realistic timeframe. The tool creates your work packages at the push of a button and shows everything directly as a Gantt chart. Adjust, move, add with a click. The export can be uploaded directly into the FFG tool.
Personnel costs are the largest block, and the FFG checks whether the hours match the work packages. In the tool you add your employees and assign them hours per work package. On top of that, material costs, third-party costs, travel costs and equipment usage. All structured, all funding-compliant.
The heart of the application text is your research question. From it derive the two central sections: the novelty compared to the state of the art and the development contents, challenges and proposed solutions, with up to 20,000 characters the largest text block in the entire application. The AI writes both based on your project overview, the work packages and your sources. Not a text module, but a coherent application that you continue to work on alone or with colleagues.
At the end you get all documents to download: the application text as a Word document, work packages and cost breakdown as Excel tables. Select the funding rate, and the funding amount and own contribution are calculated automatically.
And at every step: the StartMatch AI agent. It knows the FFG Kleinprojekt in detail and answers every question about your application. This gives you your personal 24/7 funding advisor.
By the way: Since version 5.4 of the call guidelines, the FFG explicitly regulates the use of AI. It is permitted, but the FFG can reject applications with unchecked AI texts or hallucinated sources. That is exactly why our tool doesn't work blindly, but builds every text on your project overview, your work packages and your sources.
The Kleinprojekt tool is live as of today. Try it now
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Best of luck with your projects!
Best regards,
Robert & your StartMatch Team 👋
Robert Kopka
StartMatch Founder & CEO
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