Setting up a business in Brandenburg
Would you like to become your own boss and are planning to start your own business? In Brandenburg, numerous partners ensure that you can take the path to self-employment. Throughout the state, regional, target group and sector-specific offers provide comprehensive support in all phases of setting up a business. In addition to setting up a new business, there is also the option of taking over and continuing to run an existing company.
The various offers are as individual as your ideas: An initial overview with information and offers is provided by the program "Gründen in Brandenburg" and the Wirtschaftsförderung Land Brandenburg GmbH (WFBB).
Initial advice centers are available in all districts and independent cities to provide you with free, individual and professional support on the way to setting up your business. Here you will receive advice, coaching and qualification offers if you want to set up a traditional start-up or are planning an innovative, ecologically sustainable or socially responsible start-up project in the state of Brandenburg. In addition, the business development agencies, the chambers of industry and commerce and the chambers of skilled trades in the respective chamber districts are available to provide you with advice and support.
The “Gründerforum” is a network that supports start-ups in the state capital of Potsdam.
Well-advised for self-employment
Brandenburg start-up campaign: Strategy paper with the aim of further raising Brandenburg's profile as a start-up state and motivating more people to become entrepreneurs.
Potsdam Chamber of Crafts and Trades
The Potsdam Chamber of Crafts and Trades provides the most important information for the journey to self-employment in the craft trades. Practical training advice from Potsdam Chamber of Crafts and Trades for companies and trainers, as well as for apprentices and their parents.
Potsdam Transfer is the central scientific institution for start-ups, innovation, and the transfer of knowledge and technology.
Regional orientation services for entrepreneurs
The orientation service site from the CCI project association summarises important links, contacts and information relating to setting up a business.
Bürgschaftsbank Brandenburg GmbH
The Brandenburg guarantor bank helps entrepreneurs and the self-employed to obtain credit when collateral cannot be provided. The bank offers various schemes in this regard.
EXIST is a funding programme from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
Entrepreneur support from the Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg (ILB)
In its role as the Business Promotion Bank in the Federal State of Brandenburg (ILB) will support you with a range of funding opportunities in setting up your own business.
The funding navigator provides an overview of the support on offer from the state, federal government and the European Union.
The Startup Unit of the Economic Development Agency Brandenburg (WFBB) is a central point of contact for founders in Brandenburg.
Technologie- und Gründerzentrum im Land Brandenburg e.V.
The umbrella organisation of the technology and start-up centres in the State of Brandenburg supports entrepreneurs and innovative companies.
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