1. A method for loading an application into a portable storage medium, the method comprising: storing a portion of personalization data required by the application in a restore module of the portable storage medium, the restore module being a non-volatile memory that is independent of applications stored in the portable storage medium; making available in a server the application, the server being disposed outside the portable storage medium, and the server being connectible with the portable storage medium via a server-side connection; loading the application at least partly via the server-side connection into an application memory of the portable storage medium; and loading the personalization data on the storage medium into the application in such a way that the application is personalized with the personalization data; and wherein the portion of personalization data is stored in the restore module before the application is at least partly loaded into the application memory.