Shaping the Digital Transformation in a Just and Employee Friendly WA

With its “Digitisation Fund Work 4.0”, the Austrian chamber of labour (AK) puts people at the centre of digitisation. The fund supports projects that illuminate digitalisation from the perspective of employees and shape it in their interests. The Digitisation Fund is part of the AK’s “Future Programme 2019 – 2023”, 150 million euros are spent to make Austria’s working world fit for the future. For the year 2022, AK Vienna provides 4 million euros in two funding rounds as part of the funding scheme. The funding is used to support projects to shape digitalisation from the perspective of employees.

Projects that want to receive funding need to focus on one of five leverage points:

• Knowledge and awareness
• Technology development
• Regulation
• Experimenting
• Science

The next Digifonds funding round will take place in autumn 2022.