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The Franco-German creative lab OH MY GOETHE! at the Goethe-Institut Nancy is promoting Franco-German start-up ideas from the cultural and creative industries for the fifth time.

The application phase for the HM and SCE ideas competition is open. As of now, exciting ideas are once again being sought for the Strascheg Award, which is endowed with prize money totaling 30,000 euros. All HM students, professors, staff and alumni can submit their business ideas online until September 18, 2022. Apply with your idea for one of the three categories! To the online application.

Marius Greubel and Dominik Grauer won the Strascheg Award 2021 with their start-up "gutfeel" (Entrepreneurship Project from the Deep Dive Master; Prof. Bettina Maisch) in category 1, Best Business Idea from a Course. gutfeel offers a digital market research solution that interfaces FMCG (fast-moving-consumer-goods) companies with their target audience and provides meaningful customer feedback - through a survey methodology focusing on image, sound and time - within a few hours. You have a great idea too? Then let them convince you in the following interview to submit your idea to the Strascheg Award, the ideas competition of the HM Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences and the SCE, and give your start-up story a jump-start.

What does relieving back pain have to do with smart clothing? A lot, explains founder Maria Neugschwender of the company Noxon: "Often, back pain cannot be clearly diagnosed. We are developing T-shirts that make it possible to collect live and long-term data on back pain from sufferers using printed electrodes. This enables more accurate conclusions about the causes of the pain and more individualized treatment."

Less than a year after closing a $1 billion Series D funding round that made Celonis a decacorn, the company is once again expanding its Series D funding round with an additional $1 billion in funding. Celonis intends to use the expanded funding to further expand its market position and strategically develop its product portfolio.

Design Thinking, Kanban, Scrum etc. have been making everyday life easier for start-ups and projects for a long time now. But what is actually behind the individual methods? What are they intended for and how do they help us to organize projects better? For our next Innovation Café, we have invited Fabian Ziegler, who will explain to us how to use the tools most effectively and what added values result from them. Register now here: www.sce.de/events

We cordially invite you to the next MUST DIALOGUE, Summer Edition, on Thursday, September 8, 2022, at 4:30 p.m. with Prof. Dr. Helmut Schönenberger. The event will take place at the premises of the cooperation partner innosabi GmbH HQ, Möhlstraße 2, 81675 Munich.

Register now for the event: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/must-dialogue-summer-edition-tickets-381537497927

The event will start with a keynote speech, followed by a workshop. Afterwards, the evening will end with summery drinks and food.

"Real Time Innovation" is an innovation approach that illuminates tacit knowledge and success patterns for innovation processes in the social and entrepreneurial environment and makes them usable through a set of cards and a canvas. Today we introduce the next card, "Gathering Experience, Not Mistakes." Each card represents a success pattern for one dimension in the innovation process. Read more here.

Do you have an innovative startup idea in the area of Artificial Intelligence that has been or should be born in Bavaria? Would you like to pitch for funding up to 25.000 €?
Than apply with a inspiring read deck (see QR code) and become one of our pitching candidates!

The CHINATIV project is a China competence project funded by the BMBF. There are only 11 such projects in Germany and CHINATIV is the only one from Bavaria. Since October 2018, the project has been focusing on bilateral communication and exchange between Germany and China with a focus on creativity and innovation. At the end of the project, the CHINATIV team cordially invites you to the closing event. The occasion will also be used to celebrate the traditional Chinese Moon Festival together with German and Chinese participants.

The herCAREER expo will take place from October 6 to 7, 2022 in Munich and is the first and only career and networking fair in Europe that takes into account all aspects of female careers, including the compatibility of job and family. The trade fair addresses women who are planning their entry or advancement into specialist or management careers - whether in an employment relationship or in the course of starting a business.

Florian S., Sebastian L. and Matthias H. (FK9 / DeepDive Alumnus) have won the Strascheg Award in category 3, Best Business Idea from Science & Practice, with their start-up "AgraCheck" in 2021. AgraCheck develops an information and comparison platform for smart farming technologies. Do you also have a great idea? Then let them convince you in the following interview to submit your idea to the Strascheg Award, the ideas competition of the Munich University of Applied Sciences and the SCE, and give your start-up story a jump-start.

The Munich-based start-up and SCE alumni team ChargeX offers a scrapping bonus for old charging stations to companies that want to expand their charging infrastructure. ChargeX offers the specially developed Aqueduct system for the conversion: a multiple socket for e-cars. On one mains connection, up to ten charging points lead to the outside - in contrast to the conventional method, which only allows one charging point per supply line.

The University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich is conducting a survey on the topics of resilience and digital sovereignty as part of the LIONS research project. Are you a decision-maker:in a company? Then please take part in the survey: https://survey.unibw.de/lionsmonitor

In cooperation with APE, our Academic Program for Entrepreneurship, MUCBOOK is giving away a scholarship worth 5,000 EUR! You are somewhere between the middle and the end of your studies or even already with one leg in your professional life? You want to found a start-up and acquire valuable skills for it? You want to work with other young people in the field of innovation and further your education? Then APE is just the right thing for you: Apply for a MUCBOOK APE Wildcard Scholarship, for your career boost as a Founder and Innovator.

After Porsche had already joined FAZUA in February of this year and acquired 20 percent of the Munich-based e-bike pioneers, Porsche is now taking over 100 percent of the SCE Aluni start-up. Porsche is thus further expanding its eBike expertise and emphasizes in the Porsche press release on the FAZUA acquisition the "particularly light(er) and compact drive system(s) for eBikes".

Munich-based FinTech start-up and SCE alumni Pigtie receives six-figure pre-seed investment to become the best financial app for Generation Z in Germany.

Katharina H., Moritz E., Kyle H., Clara K. and Till N. (FK9-Alumnus, APE-Alumnus, SEA-Alumnus) won the Strascheg Award in category 3, Best Business Idea from Science & Practice, in 2021 with their start-up "Omegga". Omegga develops a non-invasive sex determination of unhatched chicks before the seventh day of hatching. Do you have a great idea too? Then let them convince you in the following interview to submit your idea to the Strascheg Award, the ideas competition of the Munich University of Applied Sciences and the SCE, and give your start-up story a jump-start. .