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  • Declaration_Consent digital notification of decision
  • Monitoring report no. 2 on the existing research transfer (funding phase I)
    Status: July 2025/PDF/1MB
  • exist Yearbook 2024
    PDF / 6,7 MB
  • Monitoring report no. 1 on the exist Women funding program
    PDF / 4 MB
  • Monitoring report no. 4 on the existing start-up grant
    PDF / 4 MB

exist Start-up grant

  • Start-up grant application form
    Status: October 2025 / PDF / 829 KB
  • Documentary evidence of use
    Status: July 2024 / XLSX / 253 KB
  • Evaluation of interim status of existing start-up grant and existing research transfer
    Status: September 2025 / DOCX / 626 KB
  • Coaching resources and material expenditure planning
    Status: August 2023 / XLSX / 18 KB
  • Results report
    Status: September 2023 / DOCX / 147 KB
  • exist Founding Fellowship Agreement
    Status: August 2023 / DOCX / 26 KB
  • exist Start-up grant - Explanations on the use of coaching and material resources
    PDF / 200 KB
  • Suggested outline of business plan
    Status: September 2023 / DOCX / 144 KB
  • Handbook - exist start-up grant
    PDF / 18 MB
  • Information sheet for Phase II applications for AI projects
    Status: October 2025/PDF/127 KB
  • Information obligations under the GDPR exist start-up grant
    Status: July 2025/PDF/142 kB
  • Monitoring report no. 4 on the existing start-up grant
    PDF / 4 MB
  • Directive exist-Gründungsstipendium - new version from April 18, 2023
    Status: April 18, 2023 / PDF / 537 KB
  • Template for a de minimis certificate
    DOCX / 56 KB
  • Template for a de minimis declaration
    DOCX / 35 KB

exist Research transfer

  • Application documents phase I exist research transfer
    Status: September 2025 / PDF / 957 KB
  • Application documents Phase II exist Research transfer
    Status: September 2025 / DOCX / 155 KB
  • Excerpt from the Criminal Code and Subsidies Act
    Status: September 2019 / PDF / 24 KB
  • Evaluation of interim status of existing start-up grant and existing research transfer
    Status: September 2025 / DOCX / 626 KB
  • exist IP-Toolbox 3.0
    Sample contracts, etc. / ZIP / 19 MB
  • Manual - existing research transfer
    PDF / 18 MB
  • Information sheet for Phase II applications for AI projects
    Status: October 2025/PDF/127 KB
  • Information obligations according to GDPR exist-Forschungstransfer
    Status: July 2025/PDF/143 kB
  • SME declaration
    Status October 2025/PDF/81.5 KB
  • Monitoring report no. 1 on existing research transfer (funding phase I)
    PDF / 3 MB
  • Monitoring report no. 2 on the existing research transfer (funding phase I)
    Status: July 2025/PDF/1MB
  • Directive exist Research Transfer - Funding Directive of June 03, 2024
    Status: June 03, 2024 / PDF / 713 KB
  • Self-declaration Company in difficulty
    Status: October 2025/Word/50.5 KB
  • Template for a de minimis certificate
    DOCX / 56 KB
  • Template for a de minimis declaration
    DOCX / 35 KB

exist Women

  • exist Women - Scholarship holder contract
    DOCX / 32 KB
  • exist Women application form
    Status: September 2025 / PDF / 1.49 MB
  • exist Women compact for female founders
    PDF / 112 KB
  • exist Women template final report
    FILETYPEX-7Z-COMPRESSED / 803 KB
  • Good practice measures for female founders
    PDF / 503 KB
  • Manual - exist Women
    PDF / 12MB
  • Information obligations according to GDPR exist-Women
    Status: July 2025 /PDF/141 kB
  • List of existing women universities
    PDF / 682 KB
  • Monitoring report no. 1 on the exist Women funding program
    PDF / 4 MB
  • Directive exist Women
    Status: November 21, 2024 / PDF / 573 KB

existing potentials

  • Manual exist Potentials
    Status 2023 / PDF / 15 MB
  • Directive exist Potentials
    PDF / 494 KB
  • Final report template
    DOCX / 293 KB