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How the SCE can help you with your application:
Short facts
Students, graduates, research assistants, doctoral candidates (regardless of university)
- Scholarship (max. 3 people per team): € 1,000 per month, graduates € 2,500 per month, doctoral students € 3,000 per month
- Material expenses: one-off €10,000 (individual) or €30,000 (team)
- Coaching: one-off € 5,000
- Child benefit: € 150 per child/month
- Innovative technology-oriented or knowledge-based start-up idea
- Company has not yet been founded
- Head office of the planned start-up in Germany
- Supervision by a university or research institution (e.g. HM with SCE)
You can apply at any time via the SCE (also with no previous HM connection), simply arrange a non-binding consultation appointment at exist@sce.de!
About
The EXIST business start-up grant
Funded teams receive a start-up grant at attractive conditions for a period of 12 months to work out their business plan and prepare for their business start-up with the support of their university or entrepreneurship institutions such as the Strascheg Center.
The SCE's role
- Intensive support from experienced start-up coaches
- Personalized, uncomplicated support with the application process
- Access to an international network of experts
- Regular workshops and events to improve skills and network
- Possibility of a free workplace in the incubator
Additional funding options
EXIST-Women
With EXIST-Women, the BMWK supports women interested in starting a business in the phase before the EXIST start-up grant, in particular in the development of their entrepreneurial personality and the further development of their start-up idea.
Munich University of Applied Sciences and the Strascheg Centre for Entrepreneurship have been selected as one of the EXIST-Women funded institutions. We look forward to receiving your applications!
FAQs
- Who can apply for EXIST?
Teams of students (after at least half of the standard period of study), graduates (up to 5 years after graduation), research assistants and doctoral candidates (doctorate not more than 5 years ago), regardless of which college or university they attended.
- How can the SCE help me?
In addition to a free initial consultation, we offer you intensive support from experienced start-up coaches, personalized assistance with the application process and much more to help you on your start-up journey!
- How does the application process work at the SCE?
The first step is our non-binding initial meeting, in which we check your team's eligibility for funding and clarify all your open questions.
During the application preparation phase, our start-up coaches will support you in drafting, reviewing and optimizing your application.
Before submission to Hochschule München, University of Applied Sciences, we will review everything together and guide you through the approval process of the ministry.
Downloads & Links
T: 089 1265 3257
Linkedin camila.londono@sce.deDr. Camila Londoño moved to Germany in early 2023 to join the SCE.
Camila holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto. Since 2015, she has worked to support the commercialization of research and innovation at organizations including CCRM (formerly the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine) and the University of Toronto’s Hatchery. Starting in 2018, she led the Science Discovery Zone, one of ten incubators at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), which has the largest academic entrepreneurship program in the world . There, she supported over 150 startups to pursue evidence-based innovation and entrepreneurship, and developed two courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels to help science students explore entrepreneurial ventures. She is passionate about supporting early-stage and diverse entrepreneurs.
T: 089-1265-3258
Linkedin julia.zipf@sce.deJulia Zipf joined the SCE team in November 2022. As start-up consultant and incubator manager she accompanies students and startup teams from ideation till go-to-market strategy.
After her studies in Business Administration at EBS (European Business School) in Oestrich-Winkel and diverse stays abroad, she established marketing and sales department for several startups. Next to start up consulting in the marketing field she founded her own start up in the adventure park segment. In the SCE startup consulting she now supports students and start ups in starting their own business from ideation till going-to-market strategy. Besides she organizes ideation workshops as well as soft skill trainings and manages the incubator.
T: 089 1265 3229
Linkedin lars.schepp@sce.deMy mission in life is to enable people to shape the future in a sustainable way.
After graduating in Business Administration (Marketing, Sales Management, Organizational Development) at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg with co-creation brand project as a personal highlight, I spent more than 20 years building and developing FMCG brands internationally in an American corporation.
With the change from a large company to a company founder in the food sector in 2015, I have gone through and experienced all facets of founding, building and liquidating.
Until joining SCE in early December 2022, I was consulting various start ups/SMEs on strategy, business model, product development and co-developing a concept for a sustainable e-commerce platform. In parallel, I have been working on sustainable topics such as circular economy, transformation to sustainable business models and stewardship ownership.
T: 089 1265 3242
Linkedin martin.laarmann@sce.deMartin Laarmann is project manager of the Precelerator Project, the "fitness studio" for innovation and entrepreneurship, prototyping and new technologies for all members of the Munich University of Applied Sciences.
The graduate engineer of architecture (TU Darmstadt) is an expert for innovation communities, innovation spaces and coworking and was, among other things, significantly responsible for the planning, development and operation of the startup center "Werk1 München". He also advised numerous state institutions, municipalities and companies such as Murnau a. Staffelsee (Murnau Innovation Quarter) and Audi AG (Audi X-LAB in Ingolstadt).
Martin is also managing director of Make Germany GmbH, a social enterprise for the promotion and networking of the Maker-Movement, which organizes Southern Germany's largest Maker Festival "MAKE MUNICH".
His focus is the promotion of the "Just-make-it" mindset, "bottom-up" entrepreneurship and creative communities.
T: 089 1265 3239
Linkedin saskia.schmidl@sce.deSaskia Schmidl joined the team at the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship in summer 2017. As part of the new venture programme, she advises founders and supports our teams of the start-up-league in the incubator.
Saskia received her degree as a graduate in Social Sciences from the University of Göttingen (focus on business administration, economic and social psychology, civilian media law and sociology).
She has come to know the founding scene from various perspectives and gained valuable experience: as part of start-ups, on the investor‘s side of a venture capital company or in a supraregional third party project to promote and support start-ups of scientists from non-university research institutions (Max Planck Society and Helmholtz Association).