Apply for grants for consulting to promote entrepreneurial know-how

You can apply online for a subsidy towards the costs of a planned business consultancy:

• If you are applying for a start-up company or a company in difficulty, you must attend an information meeting with a regional contact person. You will then receive a confirmation letter, which you must submit together with your application. Existing companies do not have to have such an interview.
• Submit your application for funding for management consultancy via the website www.bafa.de/unb .
• If your application is approved, you will receive a notification by post ("Inaussichtstellung").
• You can now sign a contract with the consultancy firm and start the consultancy.
• You must submit proof of use of the completed consultation no later than 6 months after you have received the "Inaussichtstellung". To do this, follow the instructions on the online form. You can also submit the proof of use online at www.bafa.unb. To do this, fill out the online proof of use form, print it out, sign it and upload the signed form together with the consultancy report, the consultant invoice, the bank statement showing payment of the consultancy costs and the letter of confirmation from the regional contact (only start-ups and companies in difficulty).
• The responsible office will transfer the grant to the account you have specified once you have submitted the complete documents.

• Information and online forms on the BAFA website

• You are the owner of a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) in the commercial sector (according to the EU definition) or
• a freelancer,
• Your company has its registered office and business operations or a branch office in Germany,
• You employed fewer than 250 employees in the last financial year before the start of the consultation and either had an annual turnover of no more than EUR 50 million or an annual balance sheet total of no more than EUR 43 million,
• the consultancy is carried out by an independent consultant or a consultancy firm whose turnover is generated by more than 50 percent from paid management consultancy. The consultants must provide evidence of their expertise as part of the funding program.
• They have paid the consulting invoice at least in the amount of their own contribution. The personal contribution is calculated from the aforementioned maximum consulting costs minus the expected grant.

• Consulting report
• Consultant invoice
• Proof of payment (bank statement)
• Confirmation letter from a regional contact (only for start-ups and companies in difficulty)

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• Application: No later than 3 months after the information meeting (for start-ups and companies in difficulty)
• Submission of proof of use: no later than 6 months after receipt of the prospectus

If all documents are complete, approval and payment can be made within a few days.

• Framework directive for the promotion of entrepreneurial know-how

• Forms: no
• Online procedure: yes
• Written form required: yes
• Personal appearance required: no

• Online form: Application for funding of a management consultancy
• Online where-used list form "Management consultancy"
• Information and online forms on the BAFA website

Before submitting an application, start-ups and companies in difficulty must have an information meeting with a regional contact person. Advice may not begin before the application has been submitted. A consultancy agreement may also not be concluded before the application is submitted.

20.11.2018