🇦🇹 KMU.DIGITAL funding check: find funding for your digitalisation project
I’m Christoph Niedermoser, founder of wunderwerk and a KMU.DIGITAL Certified Digital Consultant (CDC). In 15 minutes, I show SMEs in Austria whether a grant fits their digitalisation project, and which one. Please note: KMU.DIGITAL, Austria’s SME digitalisation programme, has run out of budget and no longer accepts applications.
How much did KMU.DIGITAL fund?
KMU.DIGITAL 4.0, the SME digitalisation programme run by the Austrian Ministry of Economy (BMWET) and the Austrian Economic Chamber (WKÖ), subsidised consulting and implementation at these rates until it ended:
- 80% grant for a status/potential analysis (max. €400 per tool)
- 50% grant for strategy consulting (max. €1,000 per tool)
- up to €3,000 consulting funding per track (classic or GREEN)
- after subsidised consulting, a 30% grant for implementation (max. €6,000, eligible costs €2,000–€30,000)
⚠️ As of October 2026: according to the WKÖ, the KMU.DIGITAL 4.0 budget is fully used up, and applications for consulting and implementation funding are no longer possible. KMU.DIGITAL will not continue from 2027. Even before, funding depended on the budget and the order in which complete applications arrived, with no legal entitlement.
Source: kmudigital.at (WKÖ) and the consulting funding guidelines (German).
How does the funding check work?
The wunderwerk funding check takes 15 minutes and is free and non-binding. If you wish, consulting and implementation follow in three steps.
Funding check
In 15 minutes, we clarify whether your company and your project are eligible and which programme is currently open.
Consulting
Status and strategy consulting with a clear roadmap & to-dos, subsidised whenever a suitable programme is open.
Implementation
wunderwerk’s small development team implements the roadmap, usually with a first version in 4–8 weeks. You apply for funding before you commission the work.
Who is the funding check for?
The wunderwerk funding check is for small and medium-sized businesses in Austria that are planning a digitalisation project and want to handle it in line with the funding rules.
- You are an SME with your registered office or a business location in Austria
- You want to digitalise processes (CRM/tools, e‑commerce, IT security, digital administration)
- You want to do it properly (application first → costs only afterwards)
Funding programmes often exclude certain sectors or projects; KMU.DIGITAL, for example, excluded primary agricultural and forestry production and companies with a purely digital business model. We’ll check this in the initial consultation.
Advice from someone who also understands implementation
I’m Christoph Niedermoser, founder of wunderwerk. As a KMU.DIGITAL CDC, I combine funding know-how with more than 20 years of project experience from over 80 software projects – so you don’t just get paperwork, but a plan you can actually implement.
FAQ on funding
Your question isn’t listed? We’ll answer it directly in the funding check with the managing director.
Can I still apply for KMU.DIGITAL?
No. According to the Austrian Economic Chamber (WKÖ), the KMU.DIGITAL 4.0 budget is fully used up, and applications for consulting and implementation funding are no longer possible (as of October 2026). Because of federal budget consolidation, KMU.DIGITAL will not continue from 2027. You can find the current status on kmudigital.at.
How much funding did KMU.DIGITAL provide?
KMU.DIGITAL 4.0 covered 80% of a status and potential analysis (max. €400 per tool) and 50% of strategy consulting (max. €1,000 per tool), up to €3,000 in consulting funding per track. After subsidised consulting, implementation received a 30% grant of up to €6,000 for eligible costs between €2,000 and €30,000. Besides the classic track, “KMU.DIGITAL 4.0 & GREEN” covered projects that also contribute to ecological sustainability.
What is the wunderwerk funding check and what does it cost?
The funding check is a free, non-binding 15-minute call with Christoph Niedermoser, founder of wunderwerk and a KMU.DIGITAL Certified Digital Consultant. In it, we clarify whether your company and your digitalisation project are eligible, which programme is currently open and what you need to consider before applying. You book it as an online initial call.
Which funding is available for digitalisation projects in Austria now?
That depends on the federal state, sector, company size and project, and only the funding body can decide. In Tyrol, the state’s Tiroler Digitalisierungsförderung funds the introduction of digital technologies that improve processes, with up to 30% for micro, 20% for small and 10% for medium-sized and large companies; according to the State of Tyrol, applications are possible from 1 January 2027. Details are on our page Software development in Tyrol, and the funding check shows which programme fits your project.
What is a KMU.DIGITAL Certified Digital Consultant (CDC)?
A Certified Digital Consultant (CDC) is a certified advisor who was authorised to carry out the status and potential analyses subsidised under KMU.DIGITAL. Christoph Niedermoser, founder of wunderwerk, is a KMU.DIGITAL CDC and combines funding advice with more than 20 years of project experience in software development.
Do I have to apply for funding before the project starts?
Yes, the safe order is: application first, costs afterwards. Under KMU.DIGITAL, services and invoices incurred before the application were not eligible. That is why wunderwerk plans the application with you first and only starts consulting or implementation afterwards.
Can wunderwerk also implement the digitalisation project?
Yes. wunderwerk develops custom software, web applications, apps and AI solutions for SMEs, with a small development team in Tyrol, Salzburg, Vienna and Berlin. A first version usually takes 4–8 weeks, and on request we also run the system with hosting in the EU. More on custom software.
Not just clients. Partners.
We focus on long-term partnerships. You stay flexible thanks to open standards and clear documentation.
What our clients say:
A selection of our client feedback.
★★★★★Many thanks for building and looking after our online learning platform.
We can wholeheartedly recommend Christoph and his entire team.
Whatever we ask for, almost everything is made possible, and the ongoing personal contact works brilliantly too. Many thanks.
We run the online shop thecurtain.shop for made-to-measure curtains and Roman blinds.
Working with wunderwerk was excellent in every respect.
Thanks to their work, we can offer our customers an intuitive, professional shopping experience that perfectly reflects our craftsmanship. Many thanks for the great collaboration!
Very likeable wunderworkers! Fast, uncomplicated, competent and always ready to save the world!
Highly competent support. Well advised all round.
Chris knows how to solve a problem. Quality has a name: wunderwerk.io
We had the wunderworkers develop bespoke industrial software for creating recipes for a highly sensitive industrial process.
The collaboration was extremely professional from the outset: the team quickly understood our complex requirements, implemented them precisely and always paid close attention to maximum reliability and security. I would particularly like to highlight their technical know-how, clean documentation and fast response times for questions or change requests.
The recipe editor is now running in several plants in Sweden, Italy and the Czech Republic.
The software runs reliably, is intuitive to use and our customers are completely satisfied. We can recommend wunderwerk without reservation!
wunderwerk built a digital solution for my photography business that has been running stably and reliably for years. The support is top-notch, reliable and competent. I can only recommend them.
Christoph Niedermoser and his team impressed us with their professionalism, precision and reliability, both in the consulting phase and in the implementation that followed.
Our requirements were implemented perfectly, and the GPS tracking system has now been in successful use in several of our facilities for a number of years.
Chris and his team gave me superb advice on my app idea. Uncomplicated, fast and professional! Highly recommended!
We have already implemented and completed several projects together over the past few years.
Professional implementation and personal contact.
Highly recommended!
Perfect implementation of our
billiards platform.
A very pleasant collaboration. It was fun! Highly recommended!
Your team. Your wunderworkers.
We are deliberately not a large agency, but not a lone freelancer either. We are a small, close-knit team of experienced software architects, full-stack developers and AI engineers with over 20 years of project experience.
Unlike freelancers, we offer resilience, team know-how and clean documentation, so projects stay stable in the long run and do not depend on any single person. Unlike large agencies, we work efficiently, quickly and at fair prices, without overhead or unnecessary rounds of meetings.
AI writes code. We build software.
Thanks to wunderOS and our wunderFactory.
AI has opened up programming to everyone: anyone can put a prototype together today. Whether it turns into software that holds up in day-to-day operation is decided afterwards – in architecture, security, testing and maintenance over the years. That is exactly where prompting and real expertise part ways.
That is why we built our own operating system: wunderOS runs our company from sales to development. At its heart is the wunderFactory, where our AI agents, the wunderBots, build to the architecture rules, standards and tests from 20 years of software development – led by experienced software architects.
The result is software built noticeably faster and more affordably – in the quality you hire us for. We are AI experts and use that to get the best out of your project.
More software for the same budget
The wunderBots handle the routine work. You pay for architecture, decisions and results – not for legwork.
Live in weeks, not months
From the workshop to the first usable version, with changes after that in days. You see early on what works.
Quality is built in, not bolted on
Tests, reviews and security checks run automatically in the wunderFactory with every change – not just when there is time.
Architects, not prompters
The AI executes, we decide: data model, interfaces, operations. That way your software stays maintainable and extensible five years from now.
Bottom line: Bespoke software on terms that make sense for SMEs too – built with AI, with software architects accountable for it.
