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  • Declaration_Consent digital notification of decision
  • Monitoring report no. 2 on the exist 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 exist start-up grant
    PDF / 4 MB

exist start-up grant

  • Start-up grant application form
    Status: September 2025 / PDF / 829 KB
  • Documentary evidence of use
    Status: July 2024 / XLSX / 253 KB
  • Evaluation of the interim status of the exist start-up grant and exist 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 Start-up grant - Explanations on the use of coaching and material resources
    PDF / 200 KB
  • exist founding scholarship holder contract
    Status: August 2023 / DOCX / 26 KB
  • Suggested outline of business plan
    Status: September 2023 / DOCX / 144 KB
  • Manual - exist-Gründungsstipendium
    PDF / 18 MB
  • Information sheet for Phase II applications for AI projects
    PDF / 122 KB
  • Information obligations under the GDPR exist start-up grant
    Status: July 2025/PDF/142 kB
  • Monitoring report no. 4 on the exist 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 the interim status of the exist start-up grant and exist research transfer
    Status: September 2025 / DOCX / 626 KB
  • exist IP-Toolbox 3.0
    Sample contracts, etc. / ZIP / 19 MB
  • Manual - exist research transfer
    PDF / 18 MB
  • Information obligations according to GDPR exist-Forschungstransfer
    Status: July 2025/PDF/143 kB
  • Monitoring report no. 1 on the exist research transfer (funding phase I)
    PDF / 3 MB
  • Monitoring report no. 2 on the exist research transfer (funding phase I)
    Status: July 2025/PDF/1MB
  • Guideline exist-Research Transfer - Funding guideline from June 03, 2024
    Status: June 03, 2024 / PDF / 713 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 exist-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

exist potentials

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