SCE München 48.1538958 Heßstraße 89 +498912653200
Summer semester 2025
Within the real projects, entrepreneurship, innovation management and personal development are usually taught interfaculty at many HM faculties. You can find the Real Projects of the current semester below and as a german presentation here.
REAL PROJECT #1: I2S - Idea to Solution
Topic: Energy, Manufacturing and Raw Materials - FK03 | FK10 | FK12
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Klaus Sailer, Doris Polzin, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Eursch, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Winfried Zanker,
Mondays, 16:00 - 19:00 | From 24.03.2025 | 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, in which students from the Faculty of Business Administration, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Design work together in mixed groups on a concrete 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 Digitalization
TOPIC: Digitalization - FK07 | FK 14
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Christian Klusmann, Prof. Dr. Sven Sterzenbach, Prof. Dr. Marlen Jurisch, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Wach
Thursdays, 10.00 am - 1.00 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 real-life problems are innovation challenges proposed by an NGO or public sector entity 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, which means that the content is available online via video lectures and on our dynamic weekly sessions, in person, we concentrate on teamwork with coaching.
REAL PROJECT #3 Prompting for Innovation - AI & Entrepreneurship
Topic: AI & Digitalization
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Sven Sterzenbach, Prof. Dr. Gudrun Socher, Dr. Sarah Ottinger, Johanna Kobilke, Philipp von Törne
Wednesdays, 14:00 - 17:00 | from 26.03.2025 |SCE Creative Hall (Heßstr. 89, Munich)
This real project is about developing entrepreneurial approaches and designing innovative business models. Participants use prompting and computational thinking to work out their ideas in a structured way and apply relevant innovation methods in a targeted manner.
At the beginning of the semester, participants are given a general insight into the topics of AI-supported creativity, prompting and computational thinking. Within this framework, they are free to identify their own entrepreneurial challenges and develop individual solutions.
Throughout the semester, participants are supported by coaching and have the opportunity to develop their ideas iteratively. The focus is on developing practical and innovative concepts that are optimized with the help of AI-supported methods and are geared towards the current challenges and opportunities of modern society.
REAL PROJECT #4 Shaping the future
Topic: Circular Economy, Sustainabilty - FK10 | FK11
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Georg Zollner, Prof. Dr. Peter Dürr
Time & place: To be announced
Innovations for a sustainable future
How can students generate impact by developing entrepreneurial solutions to social challenges?
In the "Impact Garage" real project, students are supported over the course of a semester in developing solutions that combine impact and business and are sustainable.
The topics can be chosen from different areas and discussed with the team and professors.
REAL PROJECT #5 Sustainability in Food & Wellbeing
Topic: Food - FK06 | FK10 | FK11 | FK12
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Bettina Maisch, Prof. Dr. Verena Kaiser, Prof. Dr. Małgorzata Krzywonos, Prof. Dr. Pia Popal, Prof. Dr. Irmi Eisenbarth
ZOOM1: April 7th | from 9 to 10 AM
ZOOM2: May 5th | from 9 to 10 AM
Blockseminar: 30.06-04.07.2025 from 9 am to 5 pm, some days will be open end | SCE Creative Hall (Heßstr. 89, Munich)
Language: English
Partner University: Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland
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 and 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 Mobility
Topic: Mobility - FK03 | FK09
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Herbert Gillig, Prof. Dr. Julia Eiche
Thursdays, 17:45 - 21:00 | From 20.03.2025 | Room R 2.090
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
REAL PROJECT #7 Social X Factor
Subject: Culture & Creative Industries, Education | 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
23. to 30.07.2025 | SCE Creative Hall (Heßstr. 89, Munich)
Master students From 20.03.2025
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 interdisciplinary teams in a block seminar. In just one week, they develop innovative ideas and functioning prototypes. This semester, the focus is on "Rethinking Education". Education is the key to social change - but our education system is facing major challenges.
How can we design learning in such a way that it empowers everyone to actively contribute to a sustainable and just future? What entrepreneurial approaches can help to make education more inclusive, practical and effective? We are convinced that social entrepreneurship can play a crucial role in rethinking education and developing innovative solutions for sustainable learning. It's not just about new business models, but about meaningful initiatives that make education more accessible, reduce social inequalities and create new learning spaces. Teams identify pressing challenges in the education system and develop creative solutions. Together we are shaping the future of learning - entrepreneurially, sustainably and socially effective!