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Entrepreneurship does not come natural to everybody. Yet, the skillset can be learned. Teaching institutions play an important role in attracting young people to innovation and entrepreneurship. Through its Education activities, EIT Manufacturing seeks to empower Europe with people who are capable and inspired to shape the future of manufacturing. In this regard, the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) is exactly the right partner by providing opportunities to students. We are pleased to announce that EIT Manufacturing and SCE have joined forces and will be working together. Warm welcome to our new network partner!

How do we nurture & sustain resilient learning communities? Which design principles can be adopted to embed entrepreneurship into teaching? Let's discuss challenges and share practices on design principles joining the joint entreTime – EntreComp Synergies workshop! entreTime is a train-the-trainer programme designed to instill entrepreneurial thinking in higher-eduction educators and to enable them to foster entrepreneurial competences in the classroom. Participation in the workshop requires registration through this link.

On 04.05.2022, the European Commission announced that the joint application "Creating NEBourhoods Together" - Munich Neuperlach will be funded as one of five lighthouse projects with exemplary function within the New European Bauhaus (NEB). Together, Munich Neuperlach will be prepared for the future as outlined by the European Green Deal in terms of the built environment, circular economy, mobility, energy, food and health as part of the New European Bauhaus. The project will build on the area's strengths - a strong sense of community, extensive green spaces, large, albeit in need of renovation, housing - and address its weaknesses - higher than average unemployment and lower than average education levels. Around five million euros will be allocated for implementation.

In this episode of fIVE, we talk with Molly Johnson-Jones, Co-Founder & CEO of flexa.careers and touch upon a variety of topics- From Molly's journey to becoming a co-founder, to her key learnings in the fundraising process, to gender stereotypes, personal bias, and how they define flexible working. This episode comes at just the right time, as the shift in the labor market is happening right now, as evidenced by a wealth of data and research. This requires employers to not only offer interesting jobs, but also to find their own position on what company culture, talent and work environment they want to offer. Molly recommends employers be authentic, transparent and honest.

fIVE is your monthly university podcast on female entrepreneurship offered by SCE and HM - Munich University of Applied Sciences. Learn more about our new podcast format and enjoy the episode here or on Spotify, Apple podcast or your favorite podcast app.

-this is the title of a lecture that Kilian Schmid will give next Tuesday (03.05.2022) at 5:30 p.m. as part of the digital VDI Tuesday Lectures of Faculty 03 of Mechanical, Automotive and Aeronautical Engineering at Munich University of Applied Sciences. Although Kilian Schmid is still studying at Munich University of Applied Sciences, he can already look back on a great success, winning the international tunnel construction competition "Not-A-Boring-Competition" in the USA from Elon Musk with the team TUM Boring. This is the follow-up event to the famous Hyperloop competitions, which attracted a lot of attention in Germany but also internationally - also because TUM emerged as the winner in each case. TUM was also the biggest player in the last competition. This success would not have been possible without Kilian Schmid and the numerous students from the Munich University of Applied Sciences who were active in leading positions and pushed the team forward. The SCE also supported the team. More info at https://www.boringcompany.com/

In our next Innovations-Café, everything will revolve around Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is changing all areas of our lives and is at the heart of many innovative technologies and is increasingly becoming the focus for many startups. Together with AI + MUNICH, we invite you to an exciting panel discussion with founders from the AI environment as part of the Innovations-Café on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Register now!

We are happy with the steptics team, our alumni from Batch #5 of the Start-up Certificate Accelerator, for this new success with the receipt of the EXIST-Gründerstipendium. Setting the course for the start of the venture was the successful participation in the Strascheg Award, HM's ideas competition, and the subsequent coaching within the Start-up League of HM and SCE.

M:UniverCity and the AWM move for an interim use around the topic "Sustainable Urban Development" from 04.04. - 30.04. in a market stall on the Viktualienmarkt, corner Westenriederstr. 9! There will be a closing panel on the "Real Experiment at the Viktualienmarkt" on 28.04. from 18- 20:30 in the SCE Creative Hall. Register now here https://eveeno.com/126589050.

Start-up League Alumni Tangany has raised EUR 7 million in a seed funding round to support the growth of its whitelabel custody solution. Nauta Capital led the financing round, with Hightech-Gründerfonds (HTGF) and new investor C3 VC Fund also participating.

The Global Entrepreneurship Summer School is looking for top students from around the world who want to actively drive social change. The virtual program will immerse 50 students from different disciplines in the topic of impact entrepreneurship and develop sustainable and innovative solutions to societal challenges. The program will take place from July 29-August 6, 2022. Applications are still open until May 20, 2022 viawww.globalsummerschool.org.

On April 28, we welcomed a great group of schoolgirls to the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship for Girls Day 2022. In our workshop "Discover the founder in you", the girls developed creative ideas on the topic of "digital classroom" - and one thing is clear: the next generation of female founders is already waiting in the wings!

After great successes in research on textile sensor technology, our start-up alumni team Axon Clothable Health from Batch #4 in the Start-up Certificate funding program could now also announce another highlight with the EXIST-Gründerstipendium.

On Friday, April 8, 2022, the KinderUni at Munich University of Applied Sciences and the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship came to an end for the winter semester 2021/22.

In today's episode, we're pleased to welcome Lisa Ihde. Lisa is a computer science student, author, equal opportunity advocate, aspiring founder, part of the Forbes 30 Under 30, and much more. In this episode, Franziska Mattner talks to Lisa about her path to studying computer science, the (still) low percentage of women in this field of study, and how this can be increased. Lisa talks about how she was one of the few women to succeed in computer science despite various hurdles, and why female role models, networks and more visibility in particular can help others on their way, emphasizing how important it is to introduce children to computer science and technology in a playful way at a young age to encourage a natural approach in this field. Lisa shares valuable insights into her experiences as a book author of computer science books for kids and teens, her involvement with the Hasso Plattner Institute, and CreateF - The Female Founders Show. Listen now!

You want to discover or even sharpen your rhetoric skills? You are motivated and interested in entrepreneurship? You want to develop yourself further, get to know interesting personalities and be able to speak confidently in front of people? However, you lack a format in which you are offered the opportunity to simply try yourself out. Then the rhetoric evenings of the Munich Media Speakers (MMS)offer you the perfect framework for this. Then come to our speaker evenings of the Munich Media Speakers, currently online and hopefully soon again on site.

Munich-based high-tech startup secures further investments for the market launch of the world’s first 3D Ultrasonic Collision Avoidance Sensor. SCE Alumni Start-up Toposens GmbH has successfully completed its Series Pre-A financing round, intended to support the scaling-up of its proprietary 3D ultrasonic echolocation sensing technology. The round is led by existing investors ALPANA Ventures from Switzerland, Basinghall Partners from the UK and joined by Belgium-based SPDG Ventures. The funding for Toposens has thus increased to a total of around €3.9 million since 2018.

Our notorious "APE Bootcamp" took place in person again this year. After last year's exclusively virtual edition, we were pleased to welcome all participants back here in our Steelcase Creative Hall. We spent a whole week with students from Germany, Spain, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands on the topic "Future of Food".

The founders of our alumni start-up team Clonck are already launching their next idea, joining the select circle of serial founders. With the "Saftkiste", the first motorhome battery with CloudBMS, they just started on Kickstarter. If you want to help to bring the future into motorhomes or even have one yourself, then support the Saftkiste, with its LiFePO4 battery of the future, on Kickstarter! Learn more here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/saftkiste/die-saftkiste-der-erste-reisemobil-akku-mit-cloudbms