Up to €2 Million for Your Mobility Solution: FFG Mobilitätswende 2026/2

What to expect in this issue

• Deep Dive - FFG Mobilitätswende
• StartMatch News - Three new partners from Austria
• FörderRadar - New and expiring grants

🤿 Deep Dive: Up to €2 Million for Your Mobility Solution - FFG Mobilitätswende 2026/2

In the Deep Dive we regularly present a financing or funding topic in detail. Today: the FFG call Mobilitätswende 2026/2, up to €2 million for your mobility solution.

Since 21 October, the FFG's new call Mobilitätswende 2026/2 Mobility System has been open. The pot holds €12 million, around 40% more than in the previous round with €8.6 million. The call looks for projects that make mobility in Austria more sustainable, more resilient and more inclusive, explicitly including projects from startups.

What Do You Get?

The call offers three instruments:

• Cooperative R&D project: €100,000 to €2 million, up to 36 months. Funding rate for small companies 80% for industrial research and 60% for experimental development
• Exploratory project: up to €500,000, up to 24 months, also possible on your own. Funding rate for small companies 70%
• Single project in industrial research (new): up to €1 million, up to 36 months, without a consortium, only for the focus area transport infrastructure. Funding rate for small companies 70%

What Is Funded?

• Local and regional demonstration projects: solutions that go into practice together with municipalities, regions, transport associations or mobility service providers. Local implementation partners must contribute substantially within the consortium
• System innovations for the mobility system: open to any topic, for early ideas with genuine research content, with future users in the consortium
• Future-proof transport infrastructure: new materials, construction methods, planning tools and maintenance methods for existing roads and railways, for example against heat and heavy rain or for the circular economy

What Is NOT Funded?

• For demonstration projects, no industrial research, only experimental development
• The mere transfer of existing solutions without new research content
• Exploratory projects for demonstration and system projects only if they examine the feasibility for a specific mobility problem of a named user
• Applications without a project description in German or with annual accounts older than 9 months

Who Can Apply and by When?

• Companies of any legal form (except GesbR) including startups, as well as research institutions, associations, municipalities and regions
• Cooperative project: at least one company plus one other partner (SME, research institution or partner from the EU). No partner bears more than 70% of the costs, scientific partners together at most 50%
• Single project: registered office in Austria. Universities, universities of applied sciences and municipalities are not eligible here
• Not eligible: companies in difficulty, GesbR (civil-law partnerships)

Submission by 24.02.2027, 12:00 noon via the FFG's eCall. The decision is expected in May 2027.

Why Does This Matter?

More budget, a new instrument without a consortium requirement and municipalities and regions explicitly invited make this round especially exciting for startups with mobility, logistics or infrastructure solutions. The evaluation scheme is new as well: exploitation and impact count for more, and ecological impact is a knockout criterion.

Our tip: bring municipalities or transport operators on board early and use the FFG's voluntary advisory meeting with a short project outline.

You can find all the details here: FFG Mobilitätswende 2026/2 Mobility System

🗞️ StartMatch News: A Strong October for StartMatch

October has a lot going on. Besides many new customers who are tackling their funding applications with us, three well-known Austrian institutions have also given us their commitment to work together.

That makes us especially happy because it shows that our AI tools deliver real value across very different use cases.

We are not yet allowed to reveal the names. As soon as it is time, you will be the first to know.

📡 FörderRadar: New and Expiring Grants

These Grants Are Open for Submission Now

FFG Mobilitätswende 2026/2 Mobility System
R&D projects for a more sustainable, more resilient and more inclusive mobility system in Austria, explicitly also for startups. Up to €2,000,000, funding rate up to 80% for small companies, submission by 24.02.2027, 12:00 noon, new is a single project without a consortium for transport infrastructure.

Vienna Business Agency International Market Entry
Building business relationships in a foreign market that is new to the company, for Viennese SMEs from €20,000 in project costs. Up to €50,000, funding rate up to 50%, submission by 31.12.2026, plus a women's bonus of €5,000, the application must be submitted before the project starts.

FFG Frontrunner 2026
Innovation projects by mid-sized companies and scaleups on their way to market leadership, not for micro-enterprises and start-ups in formation. Up to €3,000,000, funding rate up to 45% for small companies, submission by 31.12.2026, 11:00 a.m., according to the FFG the program will continue in 2027.

FFG Skills Vouchers 2026
External training of employees in key technologies, not for companies in formation. Up to €5,000 per person for up to 5 people, funding rate 50%, submission by 15.12.2026, the application must be submitted before the course starts and the round may close early if the budget is exhausted.

These Grants Expire Soon

FFG Innovation Voucher With Deductible 2026
Innovation services from a research institution for SMEs and startups with a business location in Austria. Up to €10,000, funding rate up to 80%, submission by 02.11.2026, 11:00 a.m., according to the FFG the voucher will continue in 2027.

FFG Go!Tech Internships 2026
STEM internships of at least three months for school leavers in companies and research institutions with R&D in Austria. Up to €7,100 per internship place as a flat rate, submission by 04.11.2026, at the latest on the first day of the internship.

FFG Internships for Female Students 2026
Internships for female students of natural science and technical subjects in companies and non-university research institutions with R&D in Austria. Up to €8,480 per internship as a flat rate, submission by 13.11.2026, the round may close early if the budget is exhausted.

Best of luck with your projects!

Best regards,
Robert & your StartMatch Team 👋