The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Innovation, Mobility and Infrastructure (BMIMI) have been working together since 2018.

Both ministries have agreed on the common goal of intensifying cooperation between the research and development projects of the respective technology funding programmes. Austrian and German companies and research institutions can complement each other's profiles and jointly create attractive solutions in the pre-competitive area, also in the direction of the European digital single market.

The current German-Austrian projects are focussing on "Smart and sovereign use of data for production" and "Digital product passport".

EuProGigant
European production gigantic for the calamity-reducing self-orchestration of value creation and learning ecosystems

champI4.0ns
Intelligent and sovereign use of data based on the example of the wood industry

PASSAT
Data service ecosystem for the digital product passport

PACE-DPP
Promoting Accelerated Circular Economy through Digital Product Passports

In addition, the BMIMI supports Austrian partners in participating in some of the German national programmes - and vice versa. The BMWK Edge Data Economy programme is currently taking place with Austrian participation.