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Time flies so fast! Half a year ago, our Start-up League Team Silberfluss (formerly Advogarde) received the EXIST-Gründerstipendium from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. This start-up may be known to some from the Strascheg Award 2021, where they won in the category "Best Business Idea in Student Time". In the meantime, they are almost all out of their student days and have been able to enjoy the additional support of the EXIST scholarship alongside the Start-up Certificate as a support program from HM and SCE (and of course the Strascheg Award prize money) for half a year. So it's time to take stock.

For half a year now, our Start-up League team Omegga has been enjoying the EXIST-Gründerstipendium from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The team's journey at SCE started with a strong 1st place at the Strascheg Award 2021, in the category "Best Business Idea from Science and Practice". Subsequently, they successfully went through Batch #6 of the Start-up Certificate funding program of HM and SCE. So it's time to take stock.

At the AI+Munich: Talents + Ideas Mashup on 06.02.2022 from 13:30 - 17:00 in the SCE Creative Hall you get access to the Munich AI Ecosystem and can expand your network. Reserve a spot.

The event is primarily aimed at potential founders and students who are interested in AI topics and who may also want to implement projects as part of a start-up, regardless of their own background.

At the event you can:

• pitch your ideas and projects
• find partners and collaborators
• network and initiate new projects
• meet experts
• explore funding and support opportunities
• and/or simply get inspired.

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A warm welcome to our new batch in the DICA Drink Innovation Campus funding program! We are looking forward to supporting the founders with their innovative and exciting start-up projects in the coming months.

Munich-based ChargeX, which specializes in charging infrastructure for many electric cars in one place, is supporting electric car company Sono Motors, which is also based in Munich. Sono Motors' #savesion campaign, launched on Dec. 8, 2022, calls for at least 3,500 vehicles to be fully deposited within the following 50 days so that further production steps can be initiated. To support the campaign, ChargeX is granting a free power sharing module to every commercial customer who makes a full down payment on the Sion as part of the #savesion campaign. This allows the Sion to be optimally integrated into the corporate fleet and, in addition to electric mobility, also optimize the local energy system.

On Tuesday, 20.12.2022, a digital lecture of the VDI lecture series on the topic of foundation and entrepreneurship will take place at 17:30. Under the title "Robotics, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles - development of visionary technical innovations and the own foundation", the co-founder of Motius GmBH, Mr. Sören Gunia, reports on the foundation and activities of his company. The lecture is chaired by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Eursch. Participation is possible via zoom.

Sláinte! As every year, the current APE participants spent a week in Edinburgh. At the beginning of December, they participated in an exclusive product design workshop organized by our friends from Edinburgh Napier University and Bright Red Triangle. During the three-day program, the participants, together with Scottish design students, developed new product ideas on the themes of music, food, fashion & money. The program was supported by the Bavarian Youth Exchange Foundation. We say 'thank you' for having us back, look forward to next time and can't wait to welcome the Scottish students and coaches to our APE International Bootcamp 2023 in Munich at the end of February!

If you have an innovative project and are looking for competent and individual support for the realization of your own start-up and would like to acquire a university certificate free of charge, then apply by January 16, 2023 for our start-up certificate support program and become part of the Start-up League.

Dr. Sebastian Planck, Head of SCE Research, addresses the question of whether, what and how we can learn about innovation from science fiction in a highly entertaining way. At the Applied Science Slam at the HM - Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences, he asks and answers questions such as: Can the future be predicted? Can the future be shaped? Can the future be analyzed? Can we learn from the future? Innovation has always been about bringing the future into the present through creative disruption.

In this episode of fIVE our host Franziska Mattner talks with Sinéad Crowther, successful founder and CEO of Soothing Solutions Ltd, about her start-up, an Irish start-up that manufactures medicinal-free and innovative products for children’s health. The company is manufacturing innovative products such as Tonstix Pops for children’s coughs and colds.

fIVE is your monthly university podcast on female entrepreneurship offered by SCE and HM - Hochschule München 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.

On 24th of January we start the new year with the Innovations-Café. We have our partner Baker Tilly as guest for a cooperation edition. The topic of the evening is employee participation in start-ups. We are looking forward to new learnings and networking with other start-up enthusiasts and founders. Save the date now. Registration coming soon: www.sce.de/eventbrite

enna wants to make the Internet possible for everyone. Thanks to the haptic operating concept, even people without digital literacy, especially seniors, can access services such as video telephony, digital content or information from the Internet. Now, our start-up certificate alumni was able to close the seed financing round with a seven-digit amount. The lead investor of the round is the Osnabrück-based family office zwei.7, which is backed by entrepreneur Karsten Wulf. The SCE congratulates very warmly on this renewed success.

With the "Social-Startup-Hub Bayern", the first central and state-supported contact point for prospective social entrepreneurs in Bavaria was launched in September. Here, those interested in setting up a business receive free support from the early stages onwards in the form of advice and networking. www.social-startup-hub.de

ECOFARIO originally developed their system to filter out microplastics from wastewater. Over the past few years of successfully testing their High-G separator, they have been able to gather a wide range of results from various applications - not just for filtering microplastics and the pollutants that adhere to them. From oil and fiber extraction to pollutant removal, their technology has achieved promising separation values in a variety of areas. Each approach to an application field has opened up new opportunities for them to further optimize the processes using ECOFARIO technology.

Another great SCE Investors’ Day went by on December 8th 2022. 8 Start-ups have been invited to pitch their ideas and further expansion plans in front of a network of different investors from all over munich. We are delighted to announce that over 40 guests came by and exchanged on innovation, start-up growth and funding.

Dr. Sebastian Planck & Johanna Kobilke took part in the International Entrepreneurship Education Summit (IEES) in Stuttgart and presented a System Innovation Hands-on Workshop at IEES 2022 around the thought provoking question "When do you feel that you are part of a system?" Find out more about conference and program here: https://www.iees-conference.com/

On November 23, the winners of the Strascheg Award 2022, the ideas competition for students, alumni and employees of the HM Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences, were awarded during the Start for Future Summit 2022 "New Deal of Innovation in Europe". As a special feature this year, in addition to the ideas from the university, international project teams and start-ups from the Start for Future Alliance were also honored. Many thanks to all participants for their exciting submissions and congratulations to the winners and nominees of the evening! The 15 inter-/national winners from 5 categories can look forward to a prize money of 40.000€. The Strascheg Award is sponsored by the Renate and Falk Strascheg Foundation! You can watch the award ceremony here.

In 2022, the Dachau District Office once again awarded prizes to projects that save energy, use renewable energies or reduce CO2 emissions. The four most exemplary and innovative projects have now been recognized with the "Energy Award 2022" totaling 3,000 euros. We are happy to congratulate our start-up certificate Batch #6 Alumni "Energie Wäsche" for the first place. With his project "Conversion of a washing machine to heat pump technology", Dr. Alexander Mlynek was able to save 57 percent energy in the operation of the washing machine, and thus fully convinced the jury.