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"University spin-offs: Team as a success and risk factor". This topic is the focus of the next stop of the TRANSFERleben Roadshow in Munich on March 29 from 13:00-17:00. Register now and be there!

Together with our start-ups, we are delighted to have received KickStart@HM funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for our start-up teams ecomates (biogas plant for domestic use), micro factory (automated and environmentally friendly 3D printing mass production unit) and PACKMATISCH (automated supermarket with innovative storage system).

Many drivers of electric cars do not have the opportunity to recharge at home. This makes it all the more important to have a charging option at the workplace. The Munich-based e-mobility company and SCE Start-up League Alumni ChargeX presents the JobWallbox, an innovative financing concept to support the development of charging infrastructure at the workplace. With the JobWallbox, an employee can conveniently charge his electric car on the side during working hours. The charging point is provided to the employee by the employer, but the financing is provided by the employee himself. This simple measure makes employers more attractive and increases their employee loyalty.

The nominees in BayStartUP's Munich Business Plan Competition 2023, Phase 1 have been determined and our Start-up League team Puray has made it to the shortlist. Puray is developing a medical catheter that is disinfected with UVC light to protect against hospital infections. Using UV radiation, the Puray catheter is actively and continuously disinfected during the treatment period. It effectively eliminates all known viruses and bacteria - including multi-resistant germs - while being harmless to patients and medical staff. In this way, catheter-associated urinary tract infections can be proactively prevented without the use of antibiotics. Be there on March 14 in the Freiheitshalle in Munich when the winners from Phase 1 are selected. Registration at BayStartUP.de.

The entreTime project set up a modular training program on entrepreneurship, which was introduced recently to the EU Academy. The course in English language is free of charge and open to everyone: START THE TRAINING

FO and M:UniverCity invite under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Sonja Munz and Prof. Dr. Thomas Stumpp MeetUp@HM: GesundheIT für ALLE on 28.03.2023 from 17:00-19:00 in the Mobility Lab at Munich Urban Colab (Freddie-Mercury-Straße 5, 80797 München). Register here.

The Start for Future program enters a new round and the Open Call for Phase 1: LEARN is now open! The Open Call runs until March 24th, 2023!
In Phase 1: LEARN Universities perform a project and team-based eship-seminar based on a joint topic. Each team and educator is assigned an international tandem team.
You get valuable input to develop your idea further.

You are a student or student team interested in entrepreneurship? Do you have a business idea or are interested in the following fields?

• Manufacturing
• Health 
• Food 
• Urban mobility 
• Circular economy 
• Energy

Then take a look at the Open Call Flyer and apply NOW.

APPLICATION LINK: https://bit.ly/3XnnO1G
OPEN CALL FLYER: http://bit.ly/3xWUvbF

START YOUR FUTURE, YOUR WAY.

HM Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences and its Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) occupy the top position in the Gründungsradar 2022 in the category "Large Universities" (over 15,000 students).

As Gründungsradar writes on its website: "HM Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences succeeds in jumping to first place with excellent results in all building blocks and 58.9 out of a possible 60 points. In Gründungsradar 2020, it was still in second place."

"We are very happy and also proud about this confirmation of our pioneering role in the promotion of start-ups in the German university and universitiy of applied sciences landscape," said Prof. Dr. Martin Leitner, President of HM, delighted about the success. "I was particularly pleased with HM's excellent ratings across the board, i.e. in all seven building blocks. Nevertheless, we are not at all thinking of leaning back," he continues, "because the Gründungsradar ranking also makes one thing clear: the density at the top is high and there are many very good universities and HAWs that are doing extraordinary things in entrepreneurship teaching, founding and transfer."

"The ranking also makes clear how well we can fulfill our role and self-image as an entrepreneurial university in the Munich innovation ecosystem," adds Prof. Dr. Thomas Stumpp, Vice President of Business at HM. "Together with our partners, we want to build bridges between science and business as well as civil society. This succeeds on the one hand through the founding of start-ups but also through entrepreneurial employees and well-trained specialists in knowledge, technology & idea transfer in this economic metropolis."

"We see the ranking as a call to work together with as many colleges and universities as possible to further spread the important topics of entrepreneurship and start-ups," summarizes Prof. Dr. Klaus Sailer, CEO of the SCE. "Last year we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Strascheg Center at HM and we have achieved a lot during this time. In the meantime, we have grown together with our partners, both regionally and increasingly internationally, into a connected startup ecosystem to create impact and seek entrepreneurial answers together, for the challenges, both small and large, that we face."

With the Gründungsradar 2022, the Stifterverband thus examined the quality of start-up support at German universities qualitatively and quantitatively for the eighth time and presents it comparatively. The Gründungsradar is the most important ranking for start-ups and entrepreneurship at German universities of applied sciences and universities. After 2012 and 2016, in 2022 HM with its Entrepreneurship Center SCE has already taken the top position for the third time. Click here for the results.

Nadar is an early warning and monitoring system for detecting forest damage using satellite data and artificial intelligence. On February 16 at 5pm Nadar.earth CEO Caroline Busse will be a guest in the "Innovation Germany" talk @Evosonic Radio. A very good opportunity to learn more about smart forest conservation and about Nadar! Have a listen 👉 https://ra.co/events/1647664

Save the date for Friday, 17 March 2023, from 10:00 to 15:00. The first part of the DBI Day will provide interested parties with an overview of the content and process of the joint part-time doctoral programme offered by the SCE and the University of Aveiro in Portugal. The event takes place virtually via Zoom. Registration at www.sce.de/events.

The Social Startup Hub Bavaria is launching a new, free and virtual format for people interested in startups, the "Happy Impact Hour". The next session of the monthly format will take place on March 14, 2023 at 6 pm on the topic "How do I get funding as a social entrepreneur? The most important things about money and where it can come from" will take place. Register now!

Start-up League Alumni Slooom wants to prevent building vacancies and create sustainable, individually usable spaces. This has now been implemented for the first time in a gymnasium in Spiesen-Elversberg, Saarland, where the first pod hotel, the Gymlodge, will open on February 3.

We would like to draw the attention of professors of all faculties at HM as well as at all other Bay. We would like to draw the attention of professors of all faculties at the HM as well as at all other Bavarian universities to our subject certificate program "Entrepreneurship in Teaching". The program is organized by BayZiel, the attendance part takes place at HM. Target group are all teachers of all disciplines of a Bavarian university of applied sciences: to the certificate program.

The beverage industry's first accelerator program, DICA, is increasingly reaping the rewards of co-creating startups with established companies. To the INSIDE Beverage Market magazine's DICA annual review.

Our Start-up League Team baind (formerly CENSAI) receives the EXIST-Gründerstipendium from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action! We are happy about this positive news from the Federal Ministry and about the further support and funding they now receive besides the Start-up Certificate, the funding program of HM and SCE.

With the cooperative, part-time doctoral program "Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA)", the SCE provides another doctoral opportunity in addition to the DBI. You can get an overview of the contents and the process at the DBA-Day, on April 14, 2023 from 09:30 to 13:30. The event will take place in presence at the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship.

A turbulent year lies behind us. 2022 has brought us wonderful successes and it has challenged us. Here you will find an overview of our highlights in the SCE Annual Review 2022 as PDF (including links to the individual articles). The year has once again presented us with great challenges, which we have successfully mastered together with you.

For this, we would like to say a big "thank you" from us as the SCE team for your interest, commitment, cooperation and your support.
Your SCE Team

Munich overtakes Berlin for the first time in terms of the number of start-ups founded per capita and thus takes the lead nationwide. A study by the Startup Association and Startupdetector found 14.5 startups per 100,000 inhabitants in the Bavarian capital, closely followed by Berlin with 13.6. Hamburg came in third with 7.7.