The state of Lower Saxony promotes municipal consulting services for small and medium-sized enterprises. This is designed to involve companies more closely in innovation activities and, in particular, to stimulate the exchange of information and cooperation with regional scientific institutions. Regional authorities or institutions commissioned by them to promote business in Lower Saxony are eligible for funding.

You are planning the use for new mobile applications in traffic or offer opportunities for information tools and would like to contribute to the expansion of the digital infrastructure? Then this funding is just right for you.

As a company in Lower Saxony, you can make a contribution to improving the skilled labor situation. Employees from companies with a place of business in Lower Saxony and owners of companies in Lower Saxony with fewer than 50 employees can have expenses for qualifications (course and examination fees) and personnel expenses for participants in the measure (expenses for exemptions) refunded.

It is possible to guarantee financing through the Niedersächsische Bürgschaftsbank (NBB) if the borrower or the corresponding company cannot provide the financing bank with the required collateral.

If you as a company, legal entity under public law, university or non-university research institution want to carry out a pilot or demonstration project in the field of hydrogen economy, you can apply for a grant. The funding is intended to initiate the development and implementation of projects in the field of green hydrogen technologies.

You would like to carry out a research and/or development project in your company? IFP offers incentives to develop new marketable products, production processes or services that represent a nationwide novelty.

Small and medium-sized commercial enterprises affected by the Covid 19 pandemic can receive support for the use of research infrastructure through this grant. The goal of the funding is the development of improved or new products, production processes or services by small and medium-sized enterprises with the help of research infrastructures.

Would you like to improve your company's market opportunities with the help of an innovative project? The low-threshold innovation support program for SMEs and the skilled trades offers incentives to improve the company-related state of the art in newly marketable products, production processes or services as well as new operational and organizational forms through innovative projects.

If you, as a company, university or non-university research institution, want to carry out a project of industrial research or experimental development in the field of aviation and related fields of technology, you can apply for a grant. The funding is intended in particular to support aviation companies in Lower Saxony and their suppliers in increasing their innovative strength and competitiveness.

With this funding, the state of Lower Saxony and the NBank support start-ups and company successions, especially of micro start-ups in Lower Saxony. It secures existences and creates or maintains and secures permanent jobs and training positions. Sustainable start-ups from unemployment or inactivity are shown as a possible access to employment. At the same time, the low creditworthiness of micro-founders can be increased when it comes to borrowing from credit institutions.

If you are a small or medium-sized company that wants to overcome capital bottlenecks and make the most of growth opportunities now and for the future, providing equity capital through NBeteiligung can be the right support. With the help of NBeteiligung, you can exploit the growth potential of your company and generate employment.

NCapital is a regular matching event launched by NBank in 2006 with the aim of opening up additional financing opportunities for start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises through equity capital. At the same time, NCapital offers investors access to interesting companies.

If you want to expand your market opportunities now and for the future as a company with an operating facility in Lower Saxony, as well as secure follow-up investments, you can be supported by equity capital. The aim here is to maintain innovation, growth potential and employment, as well as to enable MBO/MBI and succession planning.

If you are a young company in the seed phase and want to overcome capital bottlenecks and make the most of growth opportunities, providing equity capital through NSeed can be the right support. With the help of NSeed, you can exploit your company's growth potential and generate employment.

If you are a start-up or a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) with an operating facility in Lower Saxony and have a liquidity requirement in the context of the COVID 19 crisis, you can be supported by the provision of equity capital in the form of small grants. The aim here is to maintain innovation, growth potential and employment as well as to enable MBO/MBI and succession planning.

If you are a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) or freelancer and want to increase your export orientation, you can use leading international trade fairs abroad to expand your sales markets. With the help of NBank's trade fair support abroad, you can reduce the costs and risks of such trade fair participation to a reasonable level and thus compensate for disadvantages specific to the size of your company.

If you are a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) or freelancer and want to increase your export orientation, you can use leading international trade fairs in Germany to expand your sales markets. With the help of the trade fair subsidy for joint stands, you can reduce the costs and risks of such trade fair participation and thus compensate for disadvantages specific to your company size.