📋 Tender Overview
June 19, 2026
Home is omnipresent in Bavaria: Home can be brought to people not only live on site, but also digitally. Many actors in the individual regions show: Bavaria is rich in good ideas and innovative measures in the home area. Implementing creative project ideas also requires courage and active co-creators who get involved locally in order to further develop our home. It is crucial to make the ideas and regional projects visible to everyone. This is exactly where the fifth Day of the Bavarian Regions comes in with many valuable practical examples, Lectures and workshops provide important impulses. Because good communication brings the benefits of projects to people, strengthens networks and creates starting points for new ideas - this is how regional success stories emerge, emphasized Finance and Homeland Minister Albert Furacker at the Day of the Bavarian Regions on Friday (June 19th) at the Homeland Ministry in Nuremberg.
Diverse and innovative digital home projects have a positive impact on local regional development. We want to support this with our Home Digital Regional funding and also value the work of the actors: I am therefore particularly pleased today to be able to hand over five additional funding notices totaling around 1.2 million euros. Since 2019, we have funded a total of 78 projects with around 21.4 million euros in the area of regional identity and digital home projects. The high demand shows the real need and the impulse for regional and home development in Bavaria. Therefore, the further development of the home digital regional funding guideline is already in preparation beyond 2026, says Furacker.
The fifth Day of the Bavarian Regions focused on exchanges with various actors on the topic of visibility and communication of regional projects. The Middle Franconia district is presenting its POP-UP! Mobile as a successful practical example. Various experts also gave brief insights into their perspectives on contemporary home presentation and successful public relations from the perspective of regional development, marketing and social media. In workshops, over 80 participants from all over Bavaria were able to exchange ideas and gather new inspiration and ideas for their own public relations work and visibility.
The Bavarian Ministry of Homeland Affairs has been successfully supporting both digital homeland projects and projects to strengthen regional identity in Bavaria since 2019. Both funding measures were further developed into the Home Digital Regional Funding Guideline (HDRFoR). The funding is aimed particularly at districts, rural districts and independent cities as well as associations and foundations. Smaller digital home projects from associations, foundations, tax-privileged entrepreneurial companies and limited liability companies, which also make a valuable contribution to shaping the home, can also benefit from the funding. The maximum funding per project is 300,000 euros with funding rates of up to 90 percent. In this way, rural areas in Bavaria in particular are strengthened and cooperation across municipal or district boundaries is rewarded. Detailed information on the HDRFoR funding modalities can be found at www.regionen.bayern.de.
The following five project sponsors have received a Heimat Digital Regional funding decision:
The Bavarian State Association for Homeland Care e.V. has been building a Bavaria-wide network in ready dialect care since October 2025 in order to network actors, initiatives and institutions related to dialects in Bavaria. With the module Dialect Maintenance with AI in collaboration with the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the project is now being expanded to include an innovative AI component, thus combining cultural heritage with modern digital technologies. The initial focus is on the fundamental question: Can AI record and edit dialects and thus contribute to the preservation of dialects? This will initially be tested in the distinctive dialect regions Werdenfelser Land and Muhldorf/Altotting. In the future, the approach can be expanded to cover all of Bavaria. The association will receive an increase in funding to a total of 300,000 euros for the new, future-oriented component in the project.
With the WhatsHeimat app, the Bavarian State Association for Homeland Care e.V. is further developing its successful cultural landscape forum. The aim is to make the cultural landscape a digital and interactive experience. Young people in project schools are involved as co-designers of the app. The aim is to promote young peoples enthusiasm for their homeland and cultural landscape. Communicating the connections between nature, culture and historical land use also strengthens awareness of the origins of our current cultural landscape. The association will receive project funding of 296,432.09 euros for the project with its exemplary combination of local knowledge, education and digital innovation.
In the new project Fichtel-MINT - digital economic change meets home, the European Center for Dispersion Technologies (EZD) in Selb is developing exceptional extracurricular MINT educational offers with a regional focus for young people in Upper Franconia. Promoting MINT, digital and media skills among young people at an early stage creates enthusiasm for MINT topics and imparts key digital skills. Through practical career orientation and insights into innovative professional fields in the region, optimal future opportunities arise in the home region. Digital storytelling formats show the Fichtelgebirge as a region that has repeatedly responded to structural change with innovation and adaptation. The EZD will receive funding of 288,340.92 euros for the strong community project for the next generation.
In the city of Nuremberg, the Tafelhalle in the KunstKulturQuartier is creating an app-supported memory walk for the former Tafelwerk area as an innovative combination of local history and digitalization as part of the pro
