Business Startup Programmes

On behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, DEG assists in some countries foreign specialists seeking to use experience they have acquired in Germany to set up a business in their homecountries.

With these business startup programmes, DEG can offer advice and long-term loans to foreign specialists who have acquired professional experience or completed training in Germany to set up their own business abroad. DEG promotes people whose know-how can make a special contribution to developing a healthy economic structure in its partner countries.

DEG cooperates for these purposes with local partner banks in Croatia and Vietnam. Also in Afghanistan, DEG provides loans for business start-ups in cooperation with local partner organisations.

DEG?s aims with this programme are:

  • Providing new jobs and developing structures for small to medium sized enterprises
  • Sustainable ensuring of business startups' means of existence
  • Successful export of know-how "made in Germany"