With the FH-Europa funding line, the BMBF aims to increase the participation of universities of applied sciences in EU programmes such as "Horizon Europe" or in other EU programmes such as "Green Deal" or "EUREKA". The purpose is to enable UAS to expand and strengthen their networks at European level and to establish themselves in the scientific community with their research priorities in the long term.

The innovation partnership is based on a tight network of business and science when it comes to research and development. Due to their proximity to the professional world, universities of applied sciences play an important role in this relationship.

FH-Kooperativ (Research at Universities of Applied Sciences in Cooperation with Businesses) supports universities of applied sciences in their cooperation with partners from the commercial and scientific communities. Thus, knowledge and technology transfer between universities and companies is to be strengthened in order to enable the collaboration partners to develop innovative solutions for the business world.

Social innovations have the potential to improve the living situation of people. If social innovations are dovetailed and coordinated with technical innovations from the outset, they can have a strong impact on people.

With KI-Nachwuchs@FH (creation, consolidation and bundling of attractive working and research conditions for young scientists at universities of applied sciences in the field of artificial intelligence), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding strategic, flexible and long-term investments in research equipment, research facilities and demonstrators for the purpose of application- and transfer-oriented AI research as part of the "Research at Universities of Applied Sciences" programme.

Innovative start-ups, young companies and their ideas are indispensable for the sustainable creation of significant added value in a market economy. In addition to technical innovations, social innovations also make a decisive contribution to improving social structures and solving future problems, thereby increasing the quality of life.