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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.

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.

"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.

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 AI-Start-up Puppet, which is currently supported by 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.