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SCE Almuni start-up MEDEA Biopharma not only won the top prize of $100k in the BETA category out of 1000 applicants at this year's Lee Kuan Yew Global Buisness Plan in Singapore, but also won the Wavemaker Investment Prize and the Public Choice Award in addition.

The EIT HEI Initiative interviewed Pavlina Vujovic, Head of Internationalization at the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship, about the Start For Future (SFF) initiative.

Munich-based startup, and SCE startup consulting alumni, Octavi has developed a flight simulator for the home. The intuitive and ergonomic all-in-one device allows users to control all the important instruments in a flight simulator without the need for complex hardware installation. Founder Felix von Plehwe has raised over 90,000 euros with his idea via a crowdfunding campaign. In an interview with Munich Startup, he shares his tips.

At the award ceremony for the Bavarian University Prize for Entrepreneurship "MöglichMacher²³", Klaus Sailer as a personality and Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences (HM) as an institution were honored for the successful and ongoing transformation of HM into an internationally networked entrepreneurial university.

This year, for the first time, the "MöglichMacher²³ - Bavarian University Award for Entrepreneurship" was awarded for outstanding university achievements in the area of start-up support. The Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, the vbw - Vereinigung der Bayerischen Wirtschaft e.V. (Bavarian Business Association) and Hochschule Bayern e.V. (Bavarian University of Applied Sciences) together with BayZiel - Bavarian Center for Innovative Teaching awarded the first prize to SCE Managing Director Prof. Dr. Klaus Sailer and Munich University of Applied Sciences with its Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship for the transformation of HM into an internationally networked entrepreneurial university.

Munich Startup, the official startup portal for Munich, conducted a follow-up interview with SCE alumni startup sira (Interview: Saskia Doll / Munich Startup). Founder Christina Ramgraber explains, among other things, how Munich startup sira has grown despite challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the shortage of skilled workers, expanded its business model for corporate childcare, and how it adds social value at the same time.

herCAREER Expo is Europe's leading trade fair for female careers. Every year, it brings female graduates, women in specialist and management positions, and female founders from Germany and beyond to Munich. The two-day Expo is a place for conversations - across hierarchies and industries. This is where employers who are committed to equal opportunities present themselves. Come by: Munich, October 12-13, 2023 | MOC

"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: "Results develop". Each card represents a success pattern for one dimension in the innovation process. More info here.

SCE start-up Alumni memtime GmbH, formerly timeBro, which specializes in automatic time tracking software in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) sector, has successfully closed a seven-figure Series A financing round. The round was led by BayBG as lead investor and Bayern Kapital as co-investor. Other investors include Gateway Ventures as well as renowned business angels such as Dr. Heinz Raufer, who has invested in Flixbus, among others, and Stephan Berendsen, who is already one of the existing investors, according to an article in VC Magazin.

Klaus Sailer, Managing Director SCE and Pavlina Vujović, Head of International Projects SCE in an interview at Munich Startup about "Start for Future: Innovations for Europe". As a Europe-wide cooperative, Start for Future (SFF) has been promoting collaboration between universities, startups and public organizations for two years. Klaus Sailer and Pavlina Vujović from the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE), one of the founding members, explain in an interview what the alliance wants to achieve in the European startup scene. Among other things, they address the importance of using collaborative synergies and creating added value through co-creation in order to be able to offer startups concrete support.

On September 12th, we are pleased to invite you to our next edition of the Innovations-Café at Lothstraße 21, in our Precelerator. The topic of the evening is: "Regenerative Businesses". Registration at: www.sce.de/events

Reasons for more sustainability. HM students develop an app that keeps an eye on plant well-being. The app, GardSense, assists with plant care and automatically creates tasks for the community. Want to know more? Click here for the film clip of "München tut gut" with Eva Nußhart in the media center of München.TV. The founders of GardSens and team mentor Prof. Dr. Bettina Maisch, who led the entrepreneurship format"REAL PROJECT #3 AI solutions for a healthy, sustainable and inclusive city of the future" of SCE/HM together with Dr. Ulli Waltinger, are present.

Real Projects is the interdisciplinary and practice-oriented entrepreneurship teaching format for teaching entrepreneurial and responsible thinking and acting.

Join Start for Future (SFF) on September 6th, 2023 from 15-17 CET  to attend a free, open-to-the-public event on: Business Creation & Investment. Learn what investors look for in startups and about the valuation process.

The "System Innovation to Create Impact for Society - SICIS" project of our Social Entrepreneurship Academie (SEA) has received funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the "Society of Innovation" call.

This gives us the opportunity to expand the Global Entrepreneurship Summer School (GESS) to include the topic of "System Innovations" and to integrate a train-the-trainer program for other universities into our program.

More information on the Global Entrepreneurship Summer School (GESS)

Apply now for the 12th edition of the Bavaria Israel Partnership Accelerator (BIPA) and team up with like-minded students and young professionals from Bavaria, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates to solve real-life problems in a truly international learning environment. Apply now.

Join us for an exciting event dedicated to the Food & Beverage industry! The Food & Beverage Investors Day 2023 on September 28th is a unique opportunity for investors, entrepreneurs, and industry professionals to come together and explore the latest trends, innovations, and investment opportunities in this thriving sector. Register now.

Welcome to zamm, the new podcast from HM:UniverCity, the innovation network of Munich University of Applied Sciences. In episode 1 of zamm, designers Katrin Laville and Prof. Sarah Dorkenwald talk about “Social Design” and their vision for it. Have fun listening!

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.