We look forward to the future – and want to help shape it. Therefore SPRIND is looking for answers to the social, ecological and economic challenges of our time.
Our goal is to create new disruptive innovations from Germany. That means products, services and systems that make all our lives noticeably and sustainably better.
To achieve this, we bring together new thinkers from science and business, people with outstanding ideas, special expertise and passion.
We create spaces in which people can take risks and think radically differently. We create an entrepreneurial environment that makes ideas become reality.
Our support is comprehensive. We finance, help put together teams and link them with the right networks from science, business and politics.
We only support innovators and innovations that are based on basic humanistic values.
Following a successful analysis and evaluation process, SPRIND, at present, has the right to establish project subsidiaries for projects with promising breakthrough potential which are funded with between 4 and 15 million EUR annually by the Federal Government. During the evaluation process, validation studies can be commissioned to clarify individual questions pertaining to a project application.
Teams taking part in our innovation contests, our SPRIND Challenges, can currently receive funding of between around 500,000 and 3 million euros, depending of the stage and topic of the Challenge. The funding is provided as pre-commercial procurement for research and development services.
Like its big sister SPRIND Challenges, SPRIND Funke is an innovation competition for world changers - but with a much shorter duration. Depending on the topic and stage of the spark, we currently fund the teams in the SPRIND Sparks with up to EUR 100,000. The funding is provided as a pre-commercial contract for research and development services.
In a time when interdisciplinary collaboration and constant learning are essential, our network creates valuable opportunities for outstanding innovation. The exchange with other experts from different disciplines and institutions makes it possible to expand knowledge and develop new, groundbreaking research ideas.
Discover the diverse opportunities and benefit from the extraordinary innovation potential offered by our professional network of experts.
"As an optimist and reader of 'Factfulness', I want to help ensure that the trend of recent decades toward improving the quality of life for the vast majority of people continues into the future."
Rafael Laguna de la Vera