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The City of Munich has launched the 2026 innovation competition: From now on, start-ups, students and creative talents can apply with innovative solution ideas for specific smart city challenges. The closing date for entries is May 17, 2026.

We congratulate the startup BauByte (formerly WattWert) on receiving the exist start-up grant! With the support of the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE), the team has reached another important milestone. The team is developing a building data platform for the construction sector: using patented computer vision, measurements are digitized with smartphone photos and addresses in under 10 minutes - instead of hours. This saves time, reduces calculation errors and enables more projects.

Are you interested in current technology trends, would you like to learn from experienced experts and earn ECTS points at the same time? Then it's worth taking a look at the VDI lecture series at Munich University of Applied Sciences.

Are you looking for the perfect co-founder who shares your vision and complements your skills?
The SCE Innovation Café on Co-Founder Matching on April 14, 2026 is your chance to find him or her! In a relaxed but focused atmosphere, you can meet founders, startup enthusiasts and visionaries, exchange ideas and maybe even find your perfect partner to build and grow a startup together. Secure your ticket

With the European innovation project SystemEU, a new open call for funding interregional innovation projects with funding opportunities of up to €2.2 million will be launched in June 2026. Interested stakeholders already have the opportunity to optimally prepare themselves in a series of info sessions. The kick-off is on March 23, 2026.

Hops, malt and entrepreneurial spirit: Steffen Marx, founder and managing director of Giesinger Biermanufaktur, will be a guest on Unternehmer:innen Live on May 7, 2026. From the start in the "dahauten Garage" to the second largest private brewery in Munich with a turnover in the millions: Marx tells his extraordinary founding story, talks about crowdfunding as a growth driver and gives insights into his current mission to bring Giesinger Bräu to the Oktoberfest. Find out more now and join us!

The Social Startup Hub Bavaria of the Social Entrepreneurship Academy, together with the TU Munich, invites you to the Social Business Meetup Munich on April 23 from 6 to 8 pm at the Vorhoelzer Forum. You can expect first-hand insights from the founders Alina Friedrichs(guud) and Katharina Hesseler (Omegga). They will share honest experiences from their start-ups and give you valuable tips for your own project. Afterwards, you will have the opportunity to talk to the Munich start-up scene above the rooftops of the city. Click here to register!

The Bavaria Startup & Scaleup Monitor 2026 shows impressive figures: +46% more startups than in 2025, +4,400 startups in Bavaria (2,445 of them from the Munich region) and €2.7 billion in investments in Munich. But from our point of view, the more exciting question is not how much, but HOW we start up:

Batch #14 of SCE Incubation officially came to an end with a final pitch event. The participating start-ups presented their final investor pitches and impressively demonstrated the progress they have made over the past few months. The teams impressed the audience with their clear visions and tangible entrepreneurial spirit.

Following the presentations, all founders received their official SCE Incubation Certificate, a recognition of their intensive work, continuous learning and development during the program. The evening ended with an open networking session where start-ups, coaches and partners were able to exchange ideas and make new contacts.

With the cooperative, part-time doctoral program "Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA)", the SCE offers another doctoral opportunity in addition to the DBI. You can get an overview of the contents and the procedure on DBA Day 2026, on April 24, 2026. The event will take place as a face-to-face event at the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship. Registration at www.sce.de/events.

With the exist - from science to business funding program, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has been supporting technology and knowledge-based start-up projects from universities and research institutions for many years.
The current monitoring report on the exist start-up grant impressively shows how successful this funding instrument is - both for start-ups and for Germany as a location for innovation.

The future of innovation is created where people, ideas and opportunities come together. This is exactly why OpenHubs exists. Openhubs is a global platform where individuals and organizations can connect, discover international events, jobs and opportunities, access knowledge and collaborate across ecosystems - as well as a powerful, customizable community management tool to build your own digital hubs, programs and innovation ecosystems, embedded in a worldwide network. Join OpenHubs - Where Communities Connect.

At the Study Information Days from March 19 to 21, 2026, new students, pupils and all prospective students will once again have the opportunity to obtain comprehensive information about study programs, applications, financing and career prospects - and, of course, about the SCE's offers. The Study Information Days are the largest study information event at Munich University of Applied Sciences and will once again take place this year in a combined online and on-site format.

The SCE Alumni startup micro factory was recognized by BayStartUP as one of the ten winning teams in the first phase of the 2026 Munich Business Plan Competition. Out of a total of 205 submissions, the team impressed the jury with its solution for automating 3D printing processes for medical applications. The prestigious competition supports startup teams in further developing their business ideas and successfully bringing them to market.

Two teams from the SCE environment have been nominated for Phase 1 of this year's BayStartUP Munich Business Plan Competition : Furward and micro factory 3D Solutions, both SCE Incubation Alumni. We are very pleased about this recognition and congratulate both teams on their nomination.

SCE alumni startup Noxon has successfully closed a seed financing round worth millions. The round was led by High-Tech Gründerfonds. Bayern Kapital, Auxxo and another institutional investor also participated. The financing came about with the support of the BayStartUP investor network.

We are very pleased about this important milestone and congratulate the team on this step towards market entry.

Become part of the Global Entrepreneurship Summer School (GESS) 2026 and live an international experience you will never forget! During our one-week bootcamp, you will work with students from all over the world in interdisciplinary teams on entrepreneurial solutions for social challenges.

Language models such as ChatGPT, Grok or Claude are increasingly being used to categorize political arguments or quickly find out about positions. But how neutral are these systems actually? A new study by Munich University of Applied Sciences (HM) shows: AI models apparently do not respond entirely without political leanings.