Support for your digitalisation

An overview of the German funding landscape: with 2,500 funding programmes, including eligible Telekom offers.

The German government supports digitisation projects for companies of all sizes and the public sector with several thousand programmes. In recent years, funding has been significantly expanded in some cases and can reach six-figure sums per project. Nevertheless, many of the available funds remain unused. In particular, specialised, regional and smaller programmes are often not fully utilised. The reason for this is often their low profile. Surveys in the real estate industry have found that a third of companies are unaware of such financial support.

Conversely, companies repeatedly find that particularly well-known initiatives such as Digital Now or charging stations for electric vehicles to promote digitalisation are quickly snapped up due to high demand. So what is needed to close the gap between the diverse range of support available and its consistent use?

Private companies receive particularly extensive funding. The digitisation of small and medium-sized enterprises in particular is supported by the government: the funding programmes range from the digitisation of their internal processes and the modernisation of machinery to areas such as e-commerce and IT security. Often, both federal and state programmes are involved, resulting in particularly high funding amounts. The public sector also covers a wide range of topics, including health and education and their further development in the digital age. The topic of smart cities plays a special role here. The private and public sectors often work particularly closely together in this area. The focus is on modern mobility. Support is provided, for example, for digital strategies and the procurement of specific infrastructure components, such as charging stations for electric vehicles.