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departure, the City of Vienna’s agency for the creative industries and company of the Vienna Business Agency was established in fall 2003 as Austria's first independent business promotion agency and service center for companies of the creative industries. Vienna was one of the first cities in Europe to offer a comprehensive business promotion program for this branch of industry.

The objectives of departure are manifold: the development of an economically sustainable basis for Vienna’s creative professionals to promote economic growth, the increase of the employment rate and the establishment of new companies. This requires the strengthening of entrepreneurial know-how and the cooperation between creative professionals and the economy.

departure furthermore supports individual creative and entrepreneurial top performance as well as the establishment of creative services such as design as a completely “natural“ service for classic companies. In total four funding programs are available to Vienna-based companies in the creative industries sector including the fields of fashion, music, audio-vision, multimedia, design, publishing, art market and architecture.