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Summer semester 2026
Entrepreneurship, innovation management and personal development are usually taught interfaculty at many HM faculties as part of Real Projects. The Real Projects of the current semester can be found below and as a german presentation here.
REAL PROJECT #1: Idea to Solution - Disaster Management
Topic: Energy & Manufacturing | FK03, FK10, FK12
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Klaus Sailer, Doris Polzin, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Eursch, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Winfried Zanker
From 23.03.26, Mondays 10:00 - 19:00 | SCE Creative Hall (Heßstr. 89)
I2S is a format that is intended to simultaneously convey technical content and promote entrepreneurial thinking and action. The event is cross-faculty, with students from the Faculty of Business Administration, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Design working together in mixed groups on a specific project. Here you start with a concrete product idea, through a business model to the preparation of a start-up.
This approach gives students a holistic view of a product development process and conveys an understanding of interdisciplinary links, promotes teamwork based on values and enables strategic and operational entrepreneurial thinking and action. The concept of the seminar is to develop a solution concept for the given task as independently as possible. The lecturers mainly act as coaches for the teams on the way to the solution.
REAL PROJECT #2: Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Topic: Circular Economy | FK10, FK11
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Georg Zollner
Thursdays, 14:00 - 17:15 | Room LO 308, HM Campus Pasing
Innovations for a sustainable future. How can students generate impact by developing entrepreneurial solutions for social challenges?
In the Real Project "Sustainable Entrepreneurship", students are guided over the course of a semester to develop solutions that combine impact and business and are sustainable. The topics can be chosen from different areas and discussed with the team and the professors.
REAL PROJECT #3 Digitalization
Topic: Digitalization | FK07, FK14
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Christian Klusmann, Prof. Dr. Sven Sterzenbach, Prof. Dr. Marlen Jurisch, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Wach
Tuesdays, 10:00 am - 1:50 pm | SCE Creative Hall (Heßstr. 89, Munich)
Language: English
Real Project Digitalization is a hybrid seminar that aims to promote students entrepreneurial, digital and intercultural competences. Students learn how to work in interdisciplinary remote teams, following agile processes, developing digital prototypes and business models.
Students work in interdisciplinary (potentially international) teams on real-life problems that matter. These years real-life problems are innovation challenges proposed by our partner Lufthansa Consulting, through a collaboration with HM's Digital Transformation Lab, supported by AWS. The students teams follow an innovation process to tackle the proposed challenges and prototype solutions using digital technologies with market potential for generating societal impact.
The course is a flipped-classroom, meaning that the content is available online via video lectures and during our dynamic weekly sessions in person, we concentrate on teamwork with coaching.
REAL PROJECT #4: Innovations in Life Science
Topic: Health | FK06, FK09, FK10
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Bettina Maisch, Dr. Nicolai Heinzelmann
Tuesdays, 15:00 - 18:00 | SCE Creative Hall (Heßstr. 89)
In our project-based life science entrepreneurship seminar, you will work on real challenges in biotechnology, health, the environment, nutrition and sustainable technologies. The life sciences are among the most important future fields of our time: personalized medicine, synthetic biology, sustainability, new diagnostics and much more.
Opportunities for young talents with a scientific background and an entrepreneurial mindset are emerging everywhere. You will learn how research ideas become real innovations and develop initial solutions and prototypes in interdisciplinary teams. At the same time, you will train essential future skills such as problem-solving, creativity, science-based decision-making, teamwork and entrepreneurial thinking. Methods such as design thinking, lean startup and rapid prototyping show you how to structure complex problems and transform them into feasible concepts.
The seminar teaches entrepreneurial skills and combines scientific depth with practical innovation, opening up new perspectives for your future career - whether in research, industry, start-ups or other organizations. If you want to use your life science expertise to make the world a better place, you've come to the right place.
REAL PROJECT #5: Planetary Health
Topic: Food | FK06, FK10, FK11, FK14
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Verena Kaiser, Prof. Dr. Bettina Maisch, Prof. Dr. Pia Popal, Prof. Dr. Irmi Eisenbarth, Ürof Dr. Małgorzata Krzywonos, Prof. Dr. Hussein F. Hassan
Block Week, starting 29.06.26 | SCE Creative Hall (Heßstr. 89, Munich)
Language: English
Feeding all people on earth remains a major challenge. In 2050, about 9.7 billion people will live on earth. According to the UN, about 690 million people are already suffering from hunger. How can we ensure effective, low-cost and sustainable forms of food production? In many supermarkets, we in Germany have an abundant supply of food, some of which has already made a long journey. Whether these are bananas from Tanzania, beef from Argentina or avocados from Colombia. In the context of food production, transport and processing, tons of climate-damaging CO2 are produced. How to ensure a sustainable production, processing and delivery of food? How can modern technologies be used to more effectively treat and, if possible, even prevent existing diet-related diseases?
In this one-week seminar together with Wroclaw University of Economics & Business and Lebanese American University we will work on relevant topics, opportunities and challenges, in the context of Sustainability in Food & Wellbeing and develop innovative, value-adding and sustainable solutions for the World.
REAL PROJECT #6: Igniting Innovators of the Future
Topic: All Topics | Advanced REAL PROJECT
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Bettina Maisch, Morten Edzards
Mondays, 5-8 pm | SCE Creative Hall (Heßstr. 89, Munich)
Prerequisites: A starting idea and a team of at least two people | Language: English
Are you ready to take your innovative ideas to the next level? Join us at "Real Project Advanced (RPA) - Igniting Innovators of the Future" a transformative seminar designed for visionary bachelor students eager to turn their entrepreneurial dreams into reality. RPA is more than just a course; it's a springboard to your future. In this intensive seminar, you will work closely with a like-minded team to develop and refine your startup idea, learn from seasoned entrepreneurs, and gain the tools necessary to succeed in the competitive world of business. Whether your passion lies in tech, mobility, energy, health, sustainability, or another sector, RPA provides the ideal environment to develop your creativity and skills.
RPA is ideal for students who are not just dreamers but doers. Applicants should already have a preliminary business idea and must apply with at least one other team member. This structure is designed to simulate real-world entrepreneurial ventures where teamwork and collaboration are keys to success. The goal of the seminar is to validate your business idea and to make your team investment-ready. Possibility to use your project for your final thesis.
REAL PROJECT #7 Social X Factor
Topic: Circular Economy | all FKs
Lecturers: Prof. Georg Zollner, Prof. Daniel Ittstein, Prof. Ralph Buchner, Prof. Irmi Eisenbarth, Prof. Hanna Moser, Prof. Wolfgang Gehra, Prof. Peter Dürr, Prof. Sven Sterzenbach, Johanna Kobilke
22. to 29.07.26 | SCE Creative Hall (Heßstr. 89, Munich)
Every year at the end of the summer semester, around 100 students from various faculties come together in this special Real Project to work on a social challenge in a block seminar in interdisciplinary teams. In just one week, they develop innovative ideas and functioning prototypes.
This semester, the focus is on "Crafts of the future" . Craftsmanship has been a cornerstone of our economy and culture for centuries - but today it faces profound challenges: A shortage of skilled workers, succession problems, digital change and the question of the importance of analog work in an increasingly digital world. At the same time, the skilled crafts sector has enormous potential for sustainable, regional value creation and the transfer of scientific knowledge into practice.
We are convinced that social entrepreneurship can play a decisive role in rethinking the skilled crafts sector and developing innovative approaches for its transformation. It is not just about economic viability, but also about meaningful initiatives that make the skilled crafts sector more attractive, highlight its cultural significance and create sustainable prospects for future generations.
Teams identify specific challenges in the skilled crafts sector and develop creative solutions. Together we are shaping the future of the skilled trades - entrepreneurially, sustainably and socially effective!
REAL PROJECT #8 Mobility
Topic: Mobility - FK03 | FK09
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Herbert Gillig, Prof. Dr. Julia Eiche
From 21.03.26, Thursdays, 17:45 - 21:00 | Room: tbd.
For Master students
How and how will we get around in the future? This is currently one of the most exciting questions, which is shaped by developments such as urbanization, digitalization and demographic change. As part of the course, existing offers will be analyzed in interdisciplinary teams. A new product or innovative service, including a feasible business model in the area of Future of Mobility, is then developed based on the needs of a freely selectable target group.
- The entrepreneurial perspective
- From problem to entrepreneurial opportunity
- From the business idea to the business model
- From planning to founding
- Life cycle and growth