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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.

Start for Future Summit 2022: „New Deal of Innovation in Europe“

At the Start for Future Summit 2022 on 23 and 24 November, leading decision-makers from the worlds of politics, science and business gathered under the motto “New Deal of Innovation in Europe” to shape the future of European innovation ecosystems, start-ups and co-creation. European Union Commissioner Mariya Gabriel presented the EU's New European Innovation Agenda.

In the context of the presentation of her book "Zukünfte gestalten: Speculation. Critique. Innovation." Prof. Dr. Eileen Mandir and Prof. Benedikt Groß will give an insight into the concept of Design Futuring on 30.11.22, 6.30 pm.

"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: "Innovation means transforming". Each card represents a success pattern for one dimension in the innovation process. More info here.

"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: "From product innovation to social innovation". Each card represents a success pattern for one dimension in the innovation process. More info here.

"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: "It's the impact that counts". Each card represents a success pattern for one dimension in the innovation process. More info here.

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

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

Under the title "New Deal of Innovation in Europe", HM and SCE, together with the international Start for Future Consortium (SFF), are organizing the "Start for Future Summit" at the HM - Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences on November 23 and 24. 

Live-Streaming Nov. 23rd from 3.00 PM - 06.30 PM with the keynote of EU Commissioner Marija Gabriel, Panel Talk and Strascheg Award presentation incl. Idea Pitches.
 

Program of the Live Streaming:

15:00 – 15:05 Welcome by the Vice President for Economy of HM - Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences, Prof. Dr. Thomas Stumpp

15:05 – 15:10 Welcome by Roland Weigert, Vice Minister of the Bavarian ministry of Economic Affairs

15:10 – 15:25 Concept Europe by Prof. Dr. Klaus Sailer, CEO of Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship

15:25 – 15:40 Key Note on the New European Innovation Agenda, European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel

15:45 – 16:30 Panel ‘New Deal of Innovation in Europe; Our Future - Our Way!’

16:30 – 16:45 Introducing the agenda for Day II

16:45 – 17:00 Break

17:00 – 18:30 Strascheg Award Ceremony incl. Idea Pitches

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The Summit addresses representatives of innovation ecosystems, universities, industry, start-ups as well as the politicy makers and innovation enthusiasts in general. You are cordially invited to attend one or both days of the Summit to exchange, network and co-create around the topics of co-creation and innovative ecosystems.

Start for Future (SFF) is the fastest growing European alliance of entrepreneurial universities, university linked incubators, international industry and public organizations operating as an open entrepreneurship hub that drives the systemic innovation. Start for Future connects talents and early-stage startups with its assets and broad network of industry partners, addressing United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and combining it with highly impactful, profitable and scalable business models. 

You can find all the information about the SFF Summit on the website: bit.ly/SFFSummit. In the flyer you will also find a summary of the SFF Summit Agenda & Invitation. Please send individual inquiries to info@startforfuture.eu.

In this episode of fIVE our host Franziska Mattner talks with Michaela Stauch about her entrepreneurial journey at the HM Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences and the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship. 

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.

After successfully passing Batch #5 of the SCE Start-up Certificate Accelerator and a strong third place at the Strascheg Award 2020, in the category "Best Business Idea from Science and Practice", HEALYXZ could now announce another highlight. Since October 2022, the team has been funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection and the European Social Fund as part of EXIST.

Invitation to join the Munich Global Impact Hub Co-Creation-Conference#3 on Friday, November 25th, 2022 from 8.30 am to 2.00 pm at the Munich Business School, Elsenheimerstraße 61, 80687 Munich.