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Are you toying with the idea of doing a PhD while working? Be cordially invited to our DBI-Day 2023, on March 17, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., and learn more. Doctoral candidates interested in the Doctor of Business Innovation (DBI) will receive an overview of the content and process of the cooperative part-time PhD program offered by the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship together with the University of Aveiro (UA) in Portugal at DBI-Day. The event will take place virtually and is free of charge. Register at www.sce.de/events.

Developing new business ideas and preparing them according to business management criteria is an important process in building a company. Startups that want to get off to a fast start on the market in particular need dynamic and strategic business planning. Ten startups from the fields of medical technology, renewable energies and B2B software solutions have now been able to convince the jury of their business concepts in the first of three phases in the Munich Business Plan Competition 2023 of the startup network BayStartUP. The winning teams receive professional expert feedback and recognition totaling 5,000 euros. Among them SCE Start-up League team Puray which convinced the jury with its innovative medical technology. For more than 25 years, BayStartUP's Munich Business Plan Competition has been a springboard for start-ups on their way to becoming growth companies.

Every year, the business magazine Forbes publishes lists of the currently most important entrepreneurs from all over Europe. A total of ten industries are highlighted, and 30 young people are selected from each. One of them, in the list "Manufacturing & Industry", is Tobias Kahnert, Co-Founder and CEO of Start-up League Alumni Electric Flytrain.

With the innovation competition, the city of Munich is calling for innovative solution proposals for concrete urban challenges. The aim is to develop new smart city approaches in a co-creation process, which are then to prove themselves in the urban test field. The innovation competition has been held annually since 2018 and is aimed at interested parties from the start-up community, students, founders and all creative minds who want to develop and implement viable, innovative solutions for the specified challenges. This year, the City of Munich is looking for innovative solutions to five exciting challenges. You can apply for one or more challenges. The application deadline for the Innovation Contest 2023 is 15.5.2023 at 23:59.

Invitation to the Applied Science Slam Vol. 7! Out of the lab and onto the stage, where the boundaries between dull science and fierce competition become blurred: Curtain up for the "Applied Science Slam" of the Munich University of Applied Sciences on Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 7:30 pm.

With Wendel's brand of card games, Wendelin Holz, a former intern at Gründungsförderung, is revolutionizing the classic car quartet: his card games pit the biggest cities, mountains, rivers or countries against each other, and the positive response has led to the expansion of the series as part of a crowdfunding campaign currently underway.

Let the pitch video and the campaign page convince you and get your hands on the first copies. You will find the perfect travel games in your mailboxes before your summer vacation. https://www.startnext.com/wendels-kartenspiele#/

"RESONANCE - Platform for Cultural and Creative Industries in Europe" is a program initiated by the network of Goethe-Instituts in France to promote European cultural and creative industries. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty, it will bring together a new generation of young creatives from Germany and France in tandems starting in 2023 with funding from the Franco-German Youth Office and numerous partners, thus promoting innovative Franco-German collaborations at the interface of culture, business and technology. The cross-border initiative creates a platform that opens up new resonance spaces between Germany and France and strengthens forward-looking forms of European cooperation. Apply now until March 30 for the Open Call!

It is well known that responsible entrepreneurship is a top priority at HM and SCE. At the study information days of the HM Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences from 23 to 25 March 2023, new students, pupils and all those interested in studying have the opportunity to inform themselves about the offers of the SCE and our master's program "Deep Dive - Master in Entrepreneurship & Digital Transformation" and to ask their questions.

Euclid Network (EN) reveals the top 100 Women in Social Enterprise 2023 and Kristina Notz, Director of our Social Entrepreneurship Akademie, has been named among them. The warmest congratulations from SCE dear Kristina:-)

Congratulations to our Start-up League team Noxon for winning the LOPEC Start-up Forum Award 2023 in the category Best Business Case. Noxon develops smart textiles that contain printed sensors and collect and harness, for example, long-term data on back pain. This data is able to detect short-term muscle tension as well as causes for long-lasting back pain and helps to treat it preventively by individual instructions.

AI+MUNICH supports start-ups in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) to promote innovation density based on this future-oriented technology in southern Germany. Their mission is to make prototyping easy and affordable for teams that have not yet secured financial backing. Apply now until 28.03. for your prototype funding!
 

"University spin-offs: Team as a success and risk factor". This topic is the focus of the next stop of the TRANSFERleben Roadshow in Munich on March 29 from 13:00-17:00. Register now and be there!

Together with our start-ups, we are delighted to have received KickStart@HM funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for our start-up teams ecomates (biogas plant for domestic use), micro factory (automated and environmentally friendly 3D printing mass production unit) and PACKMATISCH (automated supermarket with innovative storage system).

Many drivers of electric cars do not have the opportunity to recharge at home. This makes it all the more important to have a charging option at the workplace. The Munich-based e-mobility company and SCE Start-up League Alumni ChargeX presents the JobWallbox, an innovative financing concept to support the development of charging infrastructure at the workplace. With the JobWallbox, an employee can conveniently charge his electric car on the side during working hours. The charging point is provided to the employee by the employer, but the financing is provided by the employee himself. This simple measure makes employers more attractive and increases their employee loyalty.

The nominees in BayStartUP's Munich Business Plan Competition 2023, Phase 1 have been determined and our Start-up League team Puray has made it to the shortlist. Puray is developing a medical catheter that is disinfected with UVC light to protect against hospital infections. Using UV radiation, the Puray catheter is actively and continuously disinfected during the treatment period. It effectively eliminates all known viruses and bacteria - including multi-resistant germs - while being harmless to patients and medical staff. In this way, catheter-associated urinary tract infections can be proactively prevented without the use of antibiotics. Be there on March 14 in the Freiheitshalle in Munich when the winners from Phase 1 are selected. Registration at BayStartUP.de.

The entreTime project set up a modular training program on entrepreneurship, which was introduced recently to the EU Academy. The course in English language is free of charge and open to everyone: START THE TRAINING

FO and M:UniverCity invite under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Sonja Munz and Prof. Dr. Thomas Stumpp MeetUp@HM: GesundheIT für ALLE on 28.03.2023 from 17:00-19:00 in the Mobility Lab at Munich Urban Colab (Freddie-Mercury-Straße 5, 80797 München). Register here.

HM Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences and its Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) occupy the top position in the Gründungsradar 2022 in the category "Large Universities" (over 15,000 students).

As Gründungsradar writes on its website: "HM Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences succeeds in jumping to first place with excellent results in all building blocks and 58.9 out of a possible 60 points. In Gründungsradar 2020, it was still in second place."

"We are very happy and also proud about this confirmation of our pioneering role in the promotion of start-ups in the German university and universitiy of applied sciences landscape," said Prof. Dr. Martin Leitner, President of HM, delighted about the success. "I was particularly pleased with HM's excellent ratings across the board, i.e. in all seven building blocks. Nevertheless, we are not at all thinking of leaning back," he continues, "because the Gründungsradar ranking also makes one thing clear: the density at the top is high and there are many very good universities and HAWs that are doing extraordinary things in entrepreneurship teaching, founding and transfer."

"The ranking also makes clear how well we can fulfill our role and self-image as an entrepreneurial university in the Munich innovation ecosystem," adds Prof. Dr. Thomas Stumpp, Vice President of Business at HM. "Together with our partners, we want to build bridges between science and business as well as civil society. This succeeds on the one hand through the founding of start-ups but also through entrepreneurial employees and well-trained specialists in knowledge, technology & idea transfer in this economic metropolis."

"We see the ranking as a call to work together with as many colleges and universities as possible to further spread the important topics of entrepreneurship and start-ups," summarizes Prof. Dr. Klaus Sailer, CEO of the SCE. "Last year we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Strascheg Center at HM and we have achieved a lot during this time. In the meantime, we have grown together with our partners, both regionally and increasingly internationally, into a connected startup ecosystem to create impact and seek entrepreneurial answers together, for the challenges, both small and large, that we face."

With the Gründungsradar 2022, the Stifterverband thus examined the quality of start-up support at German universities qualitatively and quantitatively for the eighth time and presents it comparatively. The Gründungsradar is the most important ranking for start-ups and entrepreneurship at German universities of applied sciences and universities. After 2012 and 2016, in 2022 HM with its Entrepreneurship Center SCE has already taken the top position for the third time. Click here for the results.