EXIST scholarships

We support students, graduates and scientists in applying for an EXIST start-up grant or EXIST research transfer:

Personal living expenses for one year, material and coaching resources of up to €35,000! The EXIST start-up grant allows you to focus entirely on founding your own company. This is particularly important in the often difficult initial phase of a start-up. Funding is available for innovative, technology-orientated and knowledge-based start-ups from universities and research institutions. Follow the link for further information: to the funding guideline EXIST-Gründerstipendium. Go to our EXIST successes from the universities here.

EXIST research transfer

EXIST Transfer of Research funds both the necessary development work to prove the technical feasibility of research-based start-up ideas from universities and the necessary preparations for the company launch: to the EXIST Transfer of Research funding guideline.

EXIST potentials

Project title: Launching NORD°OST°
Composite: University of Greifswald, Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Stralsund University of Applied Sciences
Funding organisation/grant provider: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection
Programme: Start-up culture - EXIST-Potentiale_Potentiale heben
Running time: 01.08.2020 bis 31.05.2024

Project description:

EXIST potentials is a funding measure within the framework of EXIST start-up culture. With EXIST potentials the BMWK aims to further develop the start-up networks at universities that have been created in recent years through the EXIST start-up culture programme. The aim is to implement a perceptible and activating start-up culture at universities and to create the necessary framework conditions for innovative and fast-growing start-ups from science in order to create future-proof jobs in the region in the medium term.

The start-up initiative "Stapellauf NPRD°OST" was honoured live in Berlin on 3rd December 2019 by former Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier. The University of Greifswald as lead partner and the universities of Neubrandenburg and Stralsund were among the joint winners of the EXIST-Potentials competition organised by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection.

The aim of the "Stapellauf NORD°OST°" network is to jointly realise potential in the founding of innovative start-ups in the North-East science region in north-eastern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. "Start-up NordOst" thus builds on the cooperation between the three partners and six non-university research institutions in the North-East science region that has been in place since 2014. The aim is to expand and raise the profile of the services created through networking, for example through a joint business plan competition and start-up events with partner universities. Practical start-up support is provided across all universities by an agile one-stop agency that mobilises and qualifies founders and provides individual support in the realisation of their start-up. Digital services, digital start-up portfolios and project rooms make processes more efficient. With the development of the NORD°OST° launch brand, embedded in the "Startup NORD°OST°" start-up ecosystem, and its establishment and marketing in the region and beyond, the initiative and the region itself are gaining radiance.