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The SCE Precelerator, Community Space for Entrepreneurship & Prototyping, aims to motivate young people to start a business. This offer has been available at Munich University of Applied Sciences since 2020, and the café was added as a very important first touchpoint of the community space at the beginning of 2023. Julia Zipf, startup consultant and Manager Incubator & Precelerator at SCE, explains what the Precelerator is all about in an interview with Munich Startup. And three founders of success stories from the Precelerator also have their say: Micro Factory, Hebio and Boxing Babe.

On November 27, 2024 from 17:00 to 21:00, the event "Gipfelstürmer des Lebens" (life's summiteers) awaits you at Munich University of Applied Sciences. Inspired by the challenges of scaling Everest and with keynotes from entrepreneur and Everest climber Martin Böhm, TEDx speaker Conny Hörl and triathlon world champion Daniel Unger, participants can learn how community, balance and perseverance help to achieve personal and professional goals.

micro factory has been nominated as a finalist for the prestigious Formnext Start-up Award 2024! Formnext is the world's leading trade fair for additive manufacturing, and the finalist position offers the SCE start-up the opportunity to present its innovative solutions to an international audience of experts.

This year's university contact fair HOKO at HM was full of interesting employers who presented their job offers and benefits to students. Several SCE start-ups were also represented, of which ROBOTe Industrial won the HOKO start-up pitch competition.

With djoon, an alumni startup of the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) wins the Munich Founder Award 2024 this year! The award from Stadtsparkasse München, which has been honoring outstanding start-ups in the region for over 25 years, goes to djoon this year after an online public vote. And the nominees even include two other SCE alumni, Puray and enna.

The EXIST-Women funding program, which is specifically aimed at supporting female founders in an academic environment, is entering its second round. Universities and research institutions can now apply for the funding guideline until December 6, 2024. The Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship is also planning to apply again in order to be able to support women interested in starting a business in 2025.

The popular Applied Science Slam at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences is celebrating a special anniversary: for the tenth time, the stage will be opened for exciting, entertaining scientific contributions. With presentations, live experiments and plenty of humor, the speakers compete for the applause of the audience, who will choose a winner at the end.

The Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) is thrilled to report on the successful start of the Alumni Stammtisch. On Tuesday, October 22, 2024, numerous former teams of our start-up consultancy gathered in the Löwenbräu Keller for an evening full of exciting conversations and vivid memories. The alumni enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere, shared their experiences and made new connections within the start-up scene.

We're thrilled to announce the Call for Contributions for the highly anticipated ECSB 3E Conference at Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship and Hochschule München taking place from May 21-23, 2025 in Munich.

"Unternehmer:innen live erleben" is back! On October 24, 2024, the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) invites founder, investor and author Tijen Onaran as part of the "Unternehmer live erleben" event. In the packed Falk F. Strascheg Lecture Hall at Munich University of Applied Sciences, Onaran will talk about her path to self-employment and the challenges she has overcome as an entrepreneur. She talks about bumpy beginnings, perseverance and why this is particularly important for founders, about courage and confidence in oneself and one's own abilities and why all of this is completely independent of origin or gender. The evening will be hosted by Sonja Wilhelm and Michael Hack.

SmartAIs, an alumni of the SCE Incubation Program, is one of the five winners of the German Mobility Award 2024. The prize from the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) honors innovative projects that aim to rethink and shape the future of mobility. The prize was awarded by Federal Minister Volker Wissing at the Federal Government's Digital Summit in Frankfurt am Main. He reports:

Munich, October 22, 2024 - The Bavaria Israel Partnership Accelerator (BIPA) is celebrating the successful continuation of the program to promote innovative, intercultural cooperation between Bavaria and Israel. The kick-off workshop of the 13th edition will take place in Munich from October 14 to 18 and will once again bring together students and young professionals from both regions. Organized by the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) at HM Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences (HM), the participants will work on innovative solutions for challenges faced by companies, start-ups and public institutions. This year's edition is dedicated to the topic of "Innovation in Challenging Times".

The MedTech start-up and SCE alumni team from Puray is a double-winner. They secured both the award for innovation in medical technology and the award for patent security, both awarded by the German Society for Biomedical Engineering (DGMBT) and the Klee Family Foundation.

The startups cureVision and SUMM AI were awarded the Bavarian Innovation Prize 2024! The prize was presented by Bavaria's Minister of Economic Affairs Hubert Aiwanger, the Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the Chamber of Crafts for Munich and Upper Bavaria.

IoT startup enna makes it into both the print and digital editions of the Süddeutsche Zeitung with a full-page article. The team has developed a card reader that makes it easier for senior citizens and people with limited digital skills to use the internet.

Experience Tijen Onaran - successful entrepreneur, investor and author - on 24.10.2024 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at our event "Unternehmer Live Erleben". Find out more about her journey as a child of Turkish immigrants to becoming a founder and TV personality. Register here for free!

The application phase for the ideas competition organized by Munich University of Applied Sciences and the SCE is now open!

Exciting ideas are once again being sought for the Strascheg Award, which is endowed with prize money totaling 30,000 euros. All students, professors, employees and alumni of HM can apply online with their business ideas in three different categories until October 20, 2024.

In our big ClashOfTrash robot contest in the Precelerator, you have two weeks to build your own little robot - whether in a group or on your own, it doesn't matter. Starting on November 4th, you will be accompanied by our TechExperts, who will provide you with the building kit and will be happy to help you perfect your robot in between. On November 14, the bots will then compete against each other in our ClashOfTrash Arena. Prizes will be awarded for the best design and, of course, the most robust robot.

Want to be part of the Clash of Trash? Whether as a spectator on November 14 or as a participant with kickoff on November 4. You can register here and receive information shortly.

Of course, we are always there for you and look forward to seeing you in the Precelerator!