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HEInnovate is a self-reflection and assessment tool for Higher Education Institutions who wish to explore their innovative potential. It guides you through a process of identification, prioritisation and action planning in eight key areas. So far more the 30.000 assessments were undertaken by roundabout 1.700 HEIs.  +++ NEW +++ Now the powerful HEInnovate Tool was updated for the first time. Included in the update was a new set of action cards based on the European THEI 2.0 consortium. DOWNLOAD Card Set for free

The application window for our Academic Program for Entrepreneurship (APE) is open again. APE is a 2-semester additional qualification program in the field of Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Prototyping and Business Modeling of the Munich University of Applied Sciences and the SCE and open for students of all universities and professionals. Imagine the future will be wonderful - and you are to blame! Enhance your key competencies and apply now at: www.sce.de/ape.

The Precelerator is the new community space for entrepreneurship & prototyping of SCE & HM and invites you to exciting events & workshops on a variety of topics from website creation with the help of AI to personality development and the development of your own sticker. The Precelerator is there to participate, that is, to develop your own and team projects for all students of HM.

Here you can find the upcoming workshops and events of the Pre celerator.

"Real Time Innovation" is an innovation approach that illuminates implicit knowledge and success patterns for innovation processes in the social and corporate environment and makes them usable through a set of cards and a canvas. Today we present the next card: "Integrity". Each card represents a success pattern for one dimension in the innovation process. More info here.

Anchoring entrepreneurship in teaching - subject certificate launched for all Bavarian university teachers. Innovations result from application-oriented research at universities. In order for ideas to become successful companies, entrepreneurial skills and a corresponding mindset are necessary. For the development of the necessary future competencies, it is important to anchor entrepreneurship as a cross-sectional topic at universities. In order to enable teachers to incorporate entrepreneurship into their teaching and thus enrich the motivation of students, their competence development and their own teaching practice, BayZiel and the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship at Munich University of Applied Sciences are jointly offering a subject certificate for Bavarian professors and lecturers.

The OMIND platform promotes an "Open Innovation Mindset" and is the first scalable transformation tool that enables companies to assess and develop the innovation readiness of their employees. Now, the SCE-funded startup has secured BW Pre-Seed funding from L-Bank Staatsbank of Baden-Württemberg! In addition, the two business angels Jan Griesbach and Sebastian Reckers are also involved.

From 19 to 26.07.2023 the Real Project "Social X Factor" took place. The block seminar is an absolute highlight for us every year. This year, 20 teams pursue one goal together for one week: They develop ideas in an interdisciplinary team, 2023 on the topic of "Sustainable Urban Development". The final event took place on July 26 in the pavilion of the Design Faculty.

Exciting Announcement for Researchers and Pracademics! Call for conceptual and empirical research papers for: Special Issue: "The New Social Contract for HEIs: Exploring their Role in European Innovation Ecosystems" We are thrilled to announce a collaboration with the Triple Helix Journal for a Special Issue that focuses on the evolving role of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in European innovation ecosystems. Please get in touch with Dr. Sebastian Planck (sebastian.planck@sce.de).

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 30, 2023. Apply with your idea for one of the three categories! To the online application.

The Munich Innovation Award 2023 goes to the augmented reality start-up Puppet, which is currently funded in the Accelerator Program at SCE. Second Mayor Katrin Habenschaden presented the award to the winning teams on July 19, 2023. They will also get the chance to further develop and test their solution approaches in an upcoming co-creation phase together with the city administration in real urban contexts. In addition to prize money of 10,000 euros, a budget of up to 15,000 euros is available for the implementation phase.

The second season of createF goes live! On 7/20 starting at 6pm, the second season of createF - The Female Founders Show will launch online, hosted by alumna Franziska Pohlmann (alumna of our equally wonderful Academic Program for Entrepreneurship (APE) - Apply Now. You can now watch the second season CreateF x Founders Platform of our Female Founders Series on the YouTube channel!

For almost half a year now, our Start-up League team Checkademia can already look forward to the EXIST-Gründerstipendium from the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection. Prior to the EXIST funding, they were funded by HM and SCE as part of the SCE Accelerator Program in Batch 7.

The SCE Alumni Start-up steptics has received funding from the German Federal Foundation for the Environment (DBU) through the "Green Start-up" funding programme. The programme supports young founders who develop innovative and economically viable solutions for the environment, ecology and sustainability. Steptics receives the full funding amount of 125,000 euros.

The SCE congratulates its start-up Alumni cureVision for being awarded first place in the category "AI and Rocotics"! This Friday, the start-up presented its system for a digital wound analysis at the Fesitval of the Future and convinced the jury.

In its Series-B funding round, SCE alumni start-up ChargeX secured a total of €11.5 million in funding from various investors. With its Aqueduct charging system, the e-mobility start-up offers intelligent multi-socket charging stations for charging e-cars and reduces costs and labor during installation with an innovative installation system.

The Start for Future (SFF) alliance has emerged as one of Europe's most dynamic and fastest-growing innovation alliances comprising academia, startups, industry, and public organizations. Now the alliance is taking its next development step and officially establishing its new organizational form as a European Cooperative Society / Societas Cooperativa Europaea (SCE).  With a vision to revolutionize systemic innovation, the SFF Cooperative is poised to drive transformative advancements that will shape the future of innovation in Europe.

Are you looking for competent and personal support for your innovative start-up project on your way to a successful start-up and do you want to conquer the market with a strong sparring partner? Then apply for ourour SCE Accelerator Program by August 9, 2023 and become part of the Start-up League.

Your personal accelerator: Batch #10 in the SCE Accelerator program wanted!

The Hochsprung Award 2023 honors innovative start-up projects from Bavarian universities that contribute to solving challenges related to the climate and energy crisis in an entrepreneurial way. Prizes worth over €6,000 will be awarded. The application deadline is September 10, 2023. Here you can find all information about the application.