Start a Business at Uni Bonn
Do you want to put your idea into operation and become self-employed? Whether you have a concrete idea for a start-up or you are completely new to the start-up and entrepreneurship scene, the Transfer Center is the right place to be. We help University of Bonn students, researchers, employees and alumni to turn their ideas into successful start-ups.
Idea Check
From the first flash of inspiration, we help you to develop your idea and prepare for the next necessary steps.
Consulting and Coaching
We provide personal individualized consulting on the way to start a business, such as applying for funding.
Start-Up Stories
Our start-up stories let you read about relevant and interesting areas in the start-up scene and inspiring stories of our founders.
Start-ups
Our start-ups come from a variety of areas and range from newly funded projects to upcoming enterprises.
Start-up Events
We offer qualification workshops and networking events for exchanging information with other founders.
Co-Working
Our co-working spaces are places where knowledge transfer and entrepreneurship are lived and made practically possible.
Which services does the Transfer Center enaCom
offer to start-ups?
01.
Information
We provide easily understandable, fun-filled and relevant information about start-ups, both current affairs and sound background information.
02.
Support
We provide personal, individualized consulting. We support high-tech or social projects, and your idea will be handled strictly confidential. We speak both languages, the language of research and the language of business. Contact us for any important or less important questions you have about your start-up.
03.
Networking
Our co-working space offers start-up teams the opportunity to exchange information among each other. And our extensive network in the start-up scene offers a wide range of support from Digital Hub Region Bonn AG, the Bonn/Rhein-Sieg Chamber of Industry and Commerce, City of Bonn and many other partners.
04.
Our Funding
The University of Bonn will receive around €1.4 million in start-up financing over the next four years to expand and consolidate its services, consulting and networking. enaCom was one of the award winners in the EXIST “Raising Potential” competition organized by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi).
Funding lines and competitions
Check out our overview of important start-up competitions and funding opportunities. Here you will find information about application deadlines, competition's foci and eligibilities.
Do you have an innovative idea that ideally solves a problem of our society? Would you like to present this idea and develop it further? Then apply for the ideas competition of the Transfer Center enaCom at the University of Bonn! In addition to numerous offers of support, you have the chance to win 1000 euros for your idea. You can submit your idea sketch until 10 November 2024.
Innovations such as a chatbot that talks to patients while recording medical data or a new test procedure for genetic defects in infertile men are being funded by the Transfer Center enaCom in the 5th round of prototyping grants. Two teams of scientists from the University of Bonn and the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) are developing innovative prototypes for practical challenges of our time. The findings from the research are prepared for planned commercialization with the prototyping grants. The grants with a funding amount of up to €50,000 are regularly announced by the Transfer Center. Applications for the next round can be submitted until 20.11.2024.
Contact
Alexander Küsshauer
0.027
Brühler Straße 7
53119 Bonn
Anna Villwock
0.006
Brühler Str. 7
53119 Bonn
Alexander von Pidoll
Brühler Straße 7
53119 Bonn
Marcus Wille
1.010
Brühler Straße 7
53119 Bonn
