Cross Innovation Booster: Funding Opportunities for Cross-Industry Innovations at a Glance
June 15, 2026
Anyone working at the intersection of the cultural and creative industries, business, research, or technology is familiar with the challenge: Finding suitable funding programs for collaborative innovation projects is often time-consuming and confusing.
The KreativBund’s Cross Innovation Booster provides guidance here. The digital platform currently aggregates 78 funding initiatives at the federal and state levels and makes funding opportunities for cross-innovation projects centrally accessible.
The focus is on four types of funding that support different forms of collaboration:
- Vouchers for purchasing external expertise
- Challenges to develop innovative solutions in a competitive format
- Labs for co-creation, experimentation, and prototyping
- Collaborative projects for the joint development of innovations within larger partnerships
In this way, the Cross Innovation Booster simplifies the search for suitable funding opportunities and highlights potential that often goes undiscovered.