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Apply until January 10, 2022 with your innovative project and receive competent and individual support for the realization of your own start-up and also receive a university certificate free of charge. Apply now for our Start-up Certificate Program and become part of the Start-up League.

Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences (HM) with its Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) has also been successful in the competitive second stage of the "Entrepreneurial Skills" program of the Stifterverband. Out of a total of 69 submissions from German colleges and universities, HM and SCE were able to prevail with their concept "Entrepreneurship & Innovation Introduction Days" as one of four successful submissions.

Michael Fried, Silvan Armbruster and Ansgar Dirscherl were part of Batch #5 of the Start-up Certificate Program in 2021 with their start-up santic, a digital trade fair platform. The idea for the start-up was developed by the three students of the Munich University of Applied Sciences in a study project, and was then further developed and marketed with the help of the Start-up Certificate Program. Do you also have a great idea and are still looking for a start-up home? Then let the three convince you in the following interview to come to the SCE of the HM and apply with your idea for the Start-up Certificate until January 10, 2022.

The Munich model project AI+Munich receives 5.9 million euros as part of the EXIST "Start-ups from Science" funding program of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWi) to promote start-ups in the field of artificial intelligence. The Munich Center for Digital Sciences and Artificial Intelligence (MUC.DAI) and the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) of the HM - Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences, the TUM Venture Labs "Robotics/AI", "Software/AI" and UnternehmerTUM as well as MUC Summit GmbH, which is in the project lead, have developed a joint AI start-up process as partners, which is intended to establish Munich as an AI start-up lighthouse. In the future, they will promote the AI ecosystem in the region, which is embedded in the diverse entrepreneurship activities at the innovation location Munich.

Great news at Start-up Team NAOTILUS, which is currently participating in Batch #6 of our Start-up Certificate Program. The Start-up League team was able to secure the funding decision from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and is funded by an EXIST-Gründerstipendium starting in February 2022. The SCE is happy for the founders, their mentor Prof. Dr.-Ing. Simon Schramm from the Faculty 04, their coach Jana Hollmann and all other supporters of the SCE.

On December 14th we celebrated the closing of the 10th edition of our Bavaria Israel Partnership Accelerator (BIPA). Over 40 students from Bavaria, Israel and for the first time ever - the United Arab Emirates, did an outstanding job working on challenges coming from 9 Bavarian company partners, and worked on solutions that will go long into the future, all with the help of their experienced mentors.

Matthias Babsek, Robin Hamann and Dennis Elflein are part of Batch #5 of the Start-up Certificate since 2021 with their start-up "Re-Tire". The product idea of Re-Tire is a marketplace for verified used tires. Matthias (BA & MA) and Dennis (MA) both studied at the University of Applied Sciences Munich. They were aware of the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship early on through Dennis, who has won the Strascheg Award before, and Matthias, who was in the SCE's startup advisory service. Through a precelerator event, Matthias and Dennis eventually started discussions for their joint startup. With Robin, with whom Matthias comes from the same place and knew from work, the team was completed. They then developed their idea further with the help of the SCE and the HM in the Start-up Certificate. Do you also have a great idea and are still looking for a start-up home? Then let Matthias, Robin and Dennis convince you in the following interview to come to the SCE of the HM and apply with your idea for the Start-up Certificate until January 10, 2022.

Learn more about entreTime - teaching through entrepreneurship and get the latest insight on our activities for boosting entrepreneurship in Europe, here on the last entreTime Newsletter Issue III – December 2021.

In our December episode we welcomeAnastasia Barner, founder of FeMentor, a reverse mentoring platform for women. At 22, she is one of the youngest founders in Germany and has managed to turn a matter of the heart into a successful social start-up in just under 2 years. This episode is all about the topic: mentoring. Anastasia shares with us her story - why she never wanted to be a founder and yet is now, what mentoring means to her and how it has helped her on her personal life journey and why she thinks FeMentor can make a contribution to supporting women on their way. Listen now!

The start-up Team WechselGott receives around 5.6 million euros in a financing round, bringing its total valuation to 28 million. The investors include the broker pool Fonds Finanz and Volksbank Mittelhessen. The insurtech wants to use the investment to develop new products and expand its range.

Michaela Stauch, Lucas Egglseder and Alexander Schöllkopf are part of Batch #5 of the Start-up Certificate since 2021 with their start-up "aephus". Lucas, Bachelor graduate (FK12 Design), and Michaela got to know each other in the joint Master "Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation"  of HM and SCE. In this, the Strascheg Award winning team of 2020 (3rd place in the category "Best Business Idea from a Course") started working on their idea of a modular jewelry with automatic fall detection and notification function to improve the quality of care.If you also have a great idea and are still looking for a start-up home , let Michaela, Lucas and Alexander convince you in the following interview to come to HM's SCE to start up and apply with your idea for the Start-up Certificate until January 10, 2022.

Maximilian Kreuz and Yunus Emir are part of Batch #5 of the Start-up Certificate since 2021 with their start-up "Punchline". The product idea of Punchline is an effective and chic new development of the paper punch. With the help of the SCE and the HM, the two HM students from the Automotive Engineering program (FK 03) then developed this idea further in the Start-up Certificate. Ifyou also have a great idea and are still looking for a start-up home, then let Max and Yunus convince you in the following interview to come to the SCE of the HM to start up and apply with your idea for the Start-up Certificate until January 10, 2022.

HM & SCE presented the HM E'ship Summit “The Role of Entrepreneurial Universities in Innovation Ecosystems” from November 17th to 18th, 2021. Gain some insights to summit’s topic "entrepreneurship at universities and the role of the universities in ecosystems" in this video recording of the conference day 1. More information on the topics of the summit you can find in our handbook.

HM & SCE presented the HM E'ship Summit “The Role of Entrepreneurial Universities in Innovation Ecosystems” from November 17th to 18th, 2021. Here you'll find the recording of the "Welcome to Day2" from HM Vice-President Prof. Dr. Thomas Stumpp and our panel discussion to the topic "How to Enable the Liveable City of Tomorrow?" with inspiring insights from the Munich ecosystem. Gain insights to summit’s theme "entrepreneurship at universities and the role of the universities in ecosystems" with our video recording of the conference start on Nov. 17th. More information on the topics of the summit you can find in our handbook.

The 2021 Strascheg Award ceremony took place on Nov. 17 as part of the HM E'ship Summit. Here you can watch the award ceremony in a video stream during the HM E'ship Summit. The Strascheg Award nominee teams pitched their ideas and the 9 winning teams from the 3 categories were selected and celebrated. They can look forward to a total prize money of 30.000€! The Strascheg Award is the ideas competition of the Munich University of Applied Sciences. For each category, the first to third place idea will receive 5.000€, 3.000€ and 2.000€.

How can digitization be made sustainable? How can livable urban neighborhoods be created? How can the mobility revolution be driven forward? How can international cultural mediators like the Goethe-Institut in Beijing or the USA become climate-positive? And what innovative solutions could radically change the healthcare sector? This semester, nearly 350 students from 9 faculties at Munich University of Applied Sciences are once again immersing themselves in current topics of the future and developing viable innovative ideas on these topics within one semester in our "Real Project" seminars. The students thus compete to make the world a bit more sustainable, innovative and entrepreneurial - and thus learn in a very practical way what Responsible Entrepreneurship can mean.

In our first German podcast episode, we welcome Anna-Katharina Pelzel, co-founder of new work campus, together with her SCE start-up consultant Jana Hollmann in the podcast studio. Anna gives us insights into her start-up process and tells us how she made the step from being an employee to being self-employed and how the start-up consultancy helped with the further development of her product idea "trabayolo". Jana and Anna discuss what security means, the challenges of starting a business, and how you can also be economically successful with socially-oriented product ideas. In keeping with our motto fIVE, Anna gives us five tips for students with start-up plans. Be excited! Instead of getting discouraged when brainstorming ideas, Anna urges us to think positively because "this is the best idea ever because..." - Listen in!

fIVE is your monthly university podcast about female entrepreneurship provided by SCE and HM. Learn more about ournew podcast format here and enjoy the latest episode here or onSpotify, Apple podcast oryour favorite podcast app.

Digital contract manager WechselGott has raised €5.6 million in its Series A funding round. The post-money valuation, of the team supported by the SCE, is now €28 million.