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Do you have an idea that does good? Or are you still looking for one? At the Happy Impact Hour of the Social Entrepreneurship Academy (SEA), you will receive useful tools, tips and tricks to successfully implement your project. The live webinar takes place monthly with changing topics from the field of social entrepreneurship. Register here

This time, Nicolas Schwaab, successful green tech founder and start-up consultant, shares his personal experiences on the topic of sales. He talks openly about the biggest mistakes and shares specific recommendations on what really works. Practical, honest and with a focus on shaping sales in a way that suits your own attitude and target group.

After the short impulse, you will have the opportunity to ask Nicolas and our experienced start-up consultants your questions and exchange ideas with like-minded participants.

The highlights for you:

• Participate in our free live webinar via Zoom from any location
• Exchange ideas with like-minded people and experts
• Ask your questions!

The format will take place via Zoom, you will receive a link by e-mail shortly before the event. Click here to register for free.

You can find more information and support at www.social-startup-hub.de

What began three years ago as a shared vision within the Start for Future Cooperative is now consistently evolving: the previous Start for Future Community Platform is now operating under a new name and with an expanded claim - OpenHubs.

Meet over 70 leading family businesses on July 10, 2026 at the 36th Family Business Career Day on the Schwarz Group campus in Neckarsulm. The deadline for applications is June 15, 2026, but the SCE community and alumni can once again look forward to exclusive wildcards this year, which will ensure participants can attend free of charge! However, places are limited.

A scientific lecture does not have to mean academic boredom. And an enthusiastically entertained audience is always better than one in a state of torpor. Do you agree? Then you should come to the next Applied Science Slam at Munich University of Applied Sciences. On the evening of the event, it's "Ring frei" again for science in entertainment format. Who can get the cauldron of the large lecture hall G 0.01 so excited with a ten-minute presentation that the needle of the sound pressure meter swirls into the red zone during the subsequent applause?

SCE Alumni Startup .oles successfully completed the Kickstarter campaign for their innovative, capsule-less coffee machine at the end of the year. The idea, which is now over 150% funded, promises to make fully automatic coffee machines and annoying capsules or pods superfluous, with a compact, robust design that takes just 10 seconds to prepare an espresso.

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 February 3, 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

We congratulate AddPower, our Kickstart@HM / SCE team, on receiving the EXIST start-up grant! The funding will enable the team to further develop their product in a targeted manner over the next 12 months - with the clear goal of launching in 2026.

Attention students of all disciplines and young professionals! In the inter-university Certificate for Transformational Change, you will develop innovative ideas to effectively tackle the social, ecological and technological challenges of our time.

Our speaker Kai Hermsen, Venture Lead at DECAID Secure GmbH, gave us an exciting insight into the topic of AI governance with a focus on SMEs and young companies. Thank you very much! The short summary for you: AI governance: Why the topic is also urgent and relevant for start-ups and SMEs.

Want to get your startup off to a flying start? Then the SCE Incubation of the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship at Munich University of Applied Sciences is just right for you! Our funding program is aimed at innovative business ideas from all sectors in the pre-start-up or early start-up phase. What counts is your motivation, your commitment and your vision - whether alone or in a team, whether you are studying or working full-time.

The new annual report 2025 from Startupverband and startupdetector is here. The figures clearly show that Germany's startup ecosystem is regaining momentum.

• Record year 2025: 3,568 startups (+29% compared to 2024) mark new high.
• Strong regions: Bavaria (+46%), North Rhine-Westphalia (+33%) and Saxony (+56%) show particularly high momentum.
• Munich in first place: with 19.3 start-ups per 100,000 inhabitants, ahead of Berlin (16.8) and Düsseldorf (15.4) for the first time.
• Software as a driver: 853 software start-ups, followed by medicine (428), food (295) and eCommerce (184).
• AI as a game changer: 27% of start-ups base their business model centrally on AI - twice as many as in 2023.

The classification of our Managing Director Klaus Sailer:

"Entrepreneurship and startups are key drivers of innovation in turbulent times. This makes strong entrepreneurship centers and functioning ecosystems that enable, scale and sustainably anchor this dynamic all the more important."

The entire report with further exciting data can be viewed free of charge here.

© Image: Startupverband & startupdetector

The Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship congratulates its alumni startup enna on winning the German Care Innovation Award 2025. The enna team was honored in Berlin for its groundbreaking solution that enables digital participation and social connectedness for older people under the motto "Facing loneliness - innovative ways to achieve connectedness and social participation".

As 2025 draws to a close, we would like to say one thing above all: thank you.
Thank you for your trust, your collaboration and all the bold ideas we have been able to explore and drive forward together this year.

We wish you a holiday season full of peace, joy and just the right mix of cookies, downtime and creative ideas. Hopefully 2026 will bring you new projects worth pursuing and opportunities just waiting to be unpacked!

We look forward to continuing to shape the future of entrepreneurship with you, one new insight and one step at a time.
 

Interested in AI? It's a good thing that we are offering an exciting webinar as part of the SCE Friends & Fellows program on 20 January on the topic of"AI: Regulation vs. innovation - myth or reality? A practical guide for SMEs". Register here

A great success for our alumni start-up Hebio: At the AI congress smartAI of the VDI Wissensforum | Künstliche Intelligenz in Heilbronn, CEO Julian Ernst was able to secure first place on the start-up stage with a convincing pitch and was awarded prize money of 5,000 euros sponsored by NEURA Robotics.

From March 2 to 7, 2026, the free APE International Bootcamp will once again take place at the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) in Munich. The English-language innovation format brings students from all Munich universities together with international participants from Europe, North America and the Middle East, among others, to work on real-life challenges within a week. Go to registration

The focus is on learning by doing: in interdisciplinary teams, participants develop innovative solutions with social and entrepreneurial relevance using design thinking and lean startup methods. The program is complemented by pitch training, feedback from experienced entrepreneurs and experts and a wide range of networking opportunities.

With a fresh competition, the City of Munich and the start-up proband15 are inviting all data fans, creatives and tech-savvy Munich residents to reinterpret the city's open data in exciting new ways. Under the title "Munich data delicacies wanted", interested parties can submit their ideas from January 7 to February 11, 2026 and show the potential of open data.

What a great evening at the Midterm & Dynamic Innovation Booster Application Event in Batch #14 of SCE Incubation! The founders presented their ideas, previous successes and gave exciting insights into their development - an inspiring review of what has been created in recent months.