Digital funding in Austria: the federal scheme and all nine provinces.
Funding for the digitalisation of small and medium-sized businesses in Austria used to sit on two levels. The nationwide KMU.DIGITAL 4.0 programme, including its GREEN stream, funded the consulting itself. The business development schemes of the nine provinces mostly fund projects and investment. The federal programme will not be continued from 2027 and its budget is exhausted. The focus therefore shifts to the provinces, several of which still accept applications. This page brings both levels together, with a date and source on every entry.
KMU.DIGITAL 4.0 & GREEN
Lower Austria · digi4wirtschaftApplications from 1 October 2026: 20 % grant, up to €25,000 for data projects, until 31 December 2026 at the latest. Details →Federal level: KMU.DIGITAL 4.0 & GREEN
The only nationwide programme that funded digitalisation consulting directly. It is being wound down: the 4.0 budget is exhausted and, according to the funding body, the programme will not be continued from 2027. The status indicator above is refreshed monthly straight from kmudigital.at, so that any successor programme shows up here immediately.
Wording on kmudigital.at, checked 1 November 2026
„Aufgrund der aktuellen Konsolidierungsmaßnahmen im Bundeshaushalt wird das Förderprogramm KMU.DIGITAL ab 2027 nicht fortgeführt.“
„Das Budget von KMU.DIGITAL 4.0 ist vollständig ausgeschöpft. Eine Antragstellung für Beratungs- und Umsetzungsförderung ist somit nicht mehr möglich.“
In English: owing to the current consolidation measures in the federal budget, the KMU.DIGITAL funding programme will not be continued from 2027. The KMU.DIGITAL 4.0 budget is fully exhausted, so applications for consulting and implementation funding are no longer possible. The end of the programme applies to the whole programme including GREEN, and therefore to all three modules. The former GREEN home page has not been available since November 2026.
The three modules and their rates
Status and potential analysis
80 per cent of consulting costs, up to €400.
Strategy consulting
50 per cent of consulting costs, up to €1,000.
Implementation funding
30 per cent grant, up to €6,000.
Source: kmudigital.at, checked 1 November 2026
Which province funds your project?
Two questions, one answer from the source. The check reads the manually verified entries of the funding overview. It shows what the funding body of your province states for your kind of project, with the verification date. Nothing is stored or transmitted. The federal KMU.DIGITAL programme will not be continued from 2027, so the provinces are what remains.
01In which province is your business located?
02What is the project about?
Result
30 minutes · free · we clarify which scheme fits and how to apply
Non-binding initial orientation, no legal or funding advice in the formal sense. No budget indicator is kept for the provincial schemes; the funding body's own guidelines are authoritative.
The nine provinces
The provinces work differently. Vienna, Lower Austria, Styria and Carinthia publish specific programmes with names and amounts, Lower Austria again since autumn 2026 with digi4wirtschaft. Upper Austria, Tyrol and Vorarlberg work more through case-by-case funding advice. Both approaches are legitimate, they simply change the route to an application.
One caveat: I run no live budget indicator for the provincial schemes. These entries are a manually checked snapshot from 1 November 2026, taken directly from the funding bodies. Budgets can be exhausted at any time. The relevant body is always authoritative, which is why every entry links straight to it.
ViennaWirtschaftsagentur Wien
Runs a dedicated Förderung Digitalisierung stream for SMEs implementing digitalisation measures, worth up to €50,000 per project. The 30 September 2026 cut-off date has passed; the next cut-off date given is 31 December 2026. A second scheme, Lebendiges Grätzl, supports ground-floor business premises with up to €20,000 and explicitly includes digitalisation measures.
Lower AustriaProvince, WKNÖ, ecoplus
The Province of Lower Austria and the Lower Austrian Chamber of Commerce are relaunching the digi4wirtschaft programme. Its digi Investition stream funds digitalisation projects built on better use of data, explicitly including AI, with 20 % of eligible costs, up to €25,000 per company and from €5,000 in eligible costs. Applications can be filed from 1 October 2026 via the province's funding portal until the €2 million budget is used up, at the latest by 31 December 2026. It is complemented by subsidised consulting through the chamber's digi Assistent, up to €3,300, and the digi Kickstart workshops. For AI projects, the chamber's Technology and Innovation Partners also subsidise consulting with up to €9,900. Alongside this, ecoplus advises on funding and regional schemes case by case. Checked with the Province of Lower Austria on 1 November 2026.
Upper AustriaBusiness Upper Austria
The provincial location agency, known as biz-up. Access again runs through funding advice and events rather than a central programme list, so a direct enquiry is the practical starting point.
SalzburgLand Salzburg
The province administers its business funding directly and lists a Digitalisierungsoffensive among its schemes, alongside coaching, research and development, and business formation or succession.
StyriaSFG
The densest set of programmes of any province. Cyber!Sicher funds IT security analyses, consulting, investment and training at up to 30 per cent and a maximum of €15,000. Ideen!Reich covers innovation projects from €14,000 (module XS) to €75,000 (module XL). Lebens!Nah funds the digitalisation of production, sales, marketing and internal processes at 30 per cent. Start!Klar addresses new businesses with up to €37,500. For businesses in the automotive supply chain that are repositioning, there is also Spur!Wechsel: grants of up to €200,000, among other things for digitalising business and production processes, covering at most 25 per cent of investment costs and 50 per cent of non-investment costs such as external consulting.
TyrolStandortagentur Tirol
Bundles provincial, federal and EU programmes and maintains a list of current calls. The overview names no specific programmes or amounts, so the route runs through its funding advisory team.
VorarlbergWISTO
Wirtschafts-Standort Vorarlberg GmbH advises local businesses free of charge on research, development and innovation and accompanies them through the funding process. It maintains no dedicated digitalisation funding catalogue.
CarinthiaKWF
The Carinthian business development fund runs several relevant streams: Umsetzung.KI for AI projects, Umsetzung.F&E&I and Start.F&E&I for research, development and innovation, plus Strategie.IMPULS.
BurgenlandWirtschaftsagentur Burgenland
The central point of contact for business funding in the province. Its offering is organised into trade, tourism, innovation, financing, and energy and environmental measures.
Frequently asked questions
Can I apply for KMU.DIGITAL right now?
No, and that will not change. kmudigital.at states that the KMU.DIGITAL 4.0 budget is fully exhausted and that the funding programme will not be continued from 2027. Checked 1 November 2026.
Does that apply to the GREEN stream too?
Yes. The end of the programme applies to the whole programme including GREEN, and therefore to all three modules: status and potential analysis, strategy consulting, and implementation funding. The former GREEN home page has not been available since November 2026.
How much is the KMU.DIGITAL grant?
Status and potential analysis 80 per cent (up to €400), strategy consulting 50 per cent (up to €1,000), implementation funding a 30 per cent grant (up to €6,000).
Which province funds digitalisation most concretely?
On the checked evidence, Vienna with a dedicated digitalisation stream of up to €50,000, and Styria with several programmes including Cyber!Sicher for IT security. Carinthia has an explicit AI stream in Umsetzung.KI. From 1 October 2026 Lower Austria funds data projects with up to €25,000 through digi4wirtschaft.
Can federal and provincial funding be combined?
That depends on the individual programme and should be clarified before applying, because many sets of guidelines rule out double funding. That is exactly what an initial conversation is for.