Start-up Week 2023
One week - 9 exciting events - full of start-up power and entrepreneurial spirit!
You can look forward to:
- Inspiring talks of students, alumni and established start-ups!
- Interactive workshops making the world a little better with creative ideas!
- Countless networking opportunities with like-minded people and experts from the start-up scene!
Check out the whole program here!
Femme Talk: Your Purpose
Are you ready to discover your WHY and shape your future?
Explore your personal values and whether entrepreneurship could be a career option for you at this workshop led by our colleagues from the start-up initiative “Women Entrepreneurs in Science”. The event, hosted in the cozy location of TeamTisch in Kleve, offers a safe and empowering space to discuss your career aspirations, gain valuable insights, and exchange with like-minded female students facing similar challenges, all while enjoying delicious coffee, snacks and drinks.
By the end of the workshop, you will have a clearer understanding of your values and whether self-employment or entrepreneurship aligns with your future ambitions.
The workshop is open to all female HSRW students! You don’t need any preparation, experience, or specific ideas to participate. The number of participants is limited to 15, therefore be sure to register as soon as possible. -FULLY BOOKED -
StartGlocal @Freshers’ Market 2023
Get to know StartGlocal during this year’s Freshers’ Week!
Come by our Freshers’ Market booth and find out what we do! Taya and Jenny will be ready to guide you through start-up & entrepreneurship activities at Rhine-Waal University and tell you more about start-up events and scholarships.
But wait, there’s more! By participating in our quiz, you will have the chance to win some cool giveaways and valuable start-up books.
Just come by and meet us at the Freshers’ Market! There´s no registration necessary!
Prototyping Workshop
Dive into the world of prototyping with CNC milling machines!
In this workshop our three Start-up Scouts will guide you through an experience focused on CNC milling. Under expert guidance, you’ll have the opportunity to create your very own personalized keychain while gaining valuable insights into CNC milling!
What’s included:
• Professional guidance and instructions
• Exploration of CNC milling machines while creating your own workpieces
• Introduction to parametric design with Fusion360 and hands-on CAM process demonstration
• Refreshments and snacks during the workshop
• Certificate of participation
• A valuable startup book as a gift
Requirements:
To participate, each attendee has to bring a computer with a valid Fusion360 license, which can be obtained free of charge for all university members under the following link: Fusion 360
The workshop is free, for technology enthusiasts and requires no specific idea or prior experience to participate. Let’s ignite your creativity together!
Summer School - From Idea to Prototype
Turn your ideas into tangible prototypes!
In a two-day workshop, our three start-up scouts will guide you through the process of brainstorming and creating a business model canvas for your product. Together we will further develop your ideas and create a simple prototype. To round up the event, all participants will come together for a barbecue afterwards!
What´s included:
• Professional introductions and mind-mapping session
• In-depth exploration and showcase of the Business Model Canvas
• Hands-on experience with low-fidelity (simple) prototyping
• Refreshments during the whole time
• Delicious bbq to enjoy after the event
• A certificate of participation
• Valuable start-up book for everybody as a present
The workshop is free and requires no specific idea or prior experience to participate. Let’s ignite your creativity together!
Impact Start-up Talk „Save the Grain“
Get inspired by a successful student start-up story!
Lenia from the impact start-up “Save the Grain” will share interesting details about their founding journey, the victory in the Enactus World Cup, and the life of a student founder with you.
“Save the Grain” is a project based at the University of Cologne and is part of the international student initiative Enactus.
Their main goal is to reduce crop loss in Sub-Saharan Africa by providing information, support, and innovative devices such as a solar dryer and storage opportunities for the farmers’ harvest to increase their independence.
Let Lenia inspire you and ask your questions!
PR & Marketing Hacks for Your Start-up
Are you ready to level up your marketing?
Learn how to achieve reach and brand awarness with clever PR, SEO and Content Marketing without spending a cent on advertising! Our coach Caro Gattermann will share valuable marketing tips and tools to take your idea to the next level.
You don’t need your own start-up idea or prior knowledge to participate in the workshop.
Coffee & Chat
Boost your entrepreneurial spirit!
Come by for a good cup of coffee and cake and discover the exciting start-up support activities at HSRW! Aside from cool business games, there will be an information corner with news on start-up grants, jobs, events, and much more. We will be also happy to provide feedback on your business idea in a 1-1 coaching session. Also you will get a chance to participate in a quiz and win attractive vouchers.
Of course, the event is free of charge for you.
You don´t need to register, just come and go whenever you want.
Discover Your Market Workshop
Are you ready to explore the market?
We teach you market research skills that will take your idea or project to the next level. Learn how to analyze the market and define target groups using different strategies and tools.
The workshop is free, and no prior knowledge or ideas are required.
Innovation Sprint - Female Power
Unlock your creativity and help to solve a challenge faced by a local company:
“How can Generation Z students be effectively recruited?”
Use this chance to work on innovative solutions in interdisciplinary female student teams alongside company representatives and a skilled coach.
Highlights:
- a certificate of participation
- a prize for the team with the best solution
- brain food and drinks to fuel your creativity
Tackle this real-world challenge, expand your network, and enjoy an afternoon full of inspiration, female power, and fun!
The Innovation Sprint - Female Power is a collaborative event between Competentia NRW - Kompetenzzentrum Frau & Beruf Niederrhein and StartGlocal of Rhine-Waal University.
The workshop is free of charge, and you don’t need any specific knowledge to participate.
Impact Ideas Workshop
Create ideas that change the world!
Become a changemaker and develop ideas with societal or ecological impact! With the popular Lean Impact Canvas tool, you will create compelling business models.
The workshop is free, and you don’t need a specific idea or any prior knowledge to participate.
Legal Basics for Start-ups
How to choose the right legal basics for your business in Germany!
In this compact webinar, you will learn everything you need to consider from a legal point of view when building up your company successfully in Germany.
Join this online session and get to know all relevant legal basics and learn the difference between German legal forms such as GmbH, GbR, & UG.
Intercultural Business Training
Gain intercultural skills for your business in Germany!
The business etiquette, entrepreneurial behavior and professional life in your home-country could be sometimes quite different to those in Germany. These can often cause misunderstandings and challenges, when starting up a company as an international in Germany.
In this workshop you will learn about general cultural awareness and get tips for interaction in corporate contexts in Germany.
Best Idea Cup 2022
StartGlocal has been looking for the best start-up ideas of Rhine-Waal University over the past few months. This time we received over 80 applications and we would like to introduce you to the top 11 teams!
Be part of this exciting event, at which an expert jury awards the three best business ideas. Get to know students from our university interested in starting a business and get inspired by their pitches.
The top 10 teams of the Best Idea Cup 2022 will present their business ideas in front of an audience and a jury.
Come by, listen to inspiring pitches and cheer up the teams!
Start-up Talk with Adventsome
Get to know the social start-up Adventsome: a vegan and sustainable advent calendar containing start-up products and donations!
In the next Start-up Talk, founders of Adventsome will tell you more about their entrepreneurial journey.
Good to know: Both Lea and Josias were studying when they founded their start-up!
Take the chance to get some insights and tips on how to run and finance a business while studying. Learn firsthand what it takes to from having an idea to a running business.
After the presentation of the start-up, we will open a Q&A session.
Prototyping Workshop for Innovators
It’s time to get your hands dirty!
Our university is a fabulous environment for prototyping:
Although it is not well known (yet), our university runs three FabLabs at the two campus locations and offers various ways to create prototypes or minimum viable products. FabLabs are a global network of local labs, enabling invention by providing access to tools for digital fabrication.
In this workshop you will get the chance to create a real prototype with the help of our coaches.
Everybody can learn the required skills to prototype physical products. No preparation needed.
Innovation Factory - Summer Edition
From idea to prototype in 2 days!
Dive into the world of an entrepreneur and learn hands-on what it takes to develop a promising business idea with the help of Design Thinking!
Together in a team you will step by step experience the idea generation process:
Day 1: Analyze the market and customer needs to generate creative solutions.
Day 2: Create innovative business ideas and develop the first prototype.
Special: Outdoor workshop with barbecue!
No business idea or preparation is needed.
Best Idea Cup - Info Event
Are you wondering what the Best Idea Cup 2022 is all about?
The Best Idea Cup is a competition of innovative business ideas at Rhine-Waal University, at which you can win attractive money prizes.
Join our info session and get all your questions about the competition answered!
Start-up Circle June
Join the HSRW start-up community!
Our informal Start-up Circle is a monthly session, at which the start-up community of the Rhine-Waal University gets together. It offers you the opportunity to share your start-up experience, get answers on your questions and connect with fellow students interested in start-ups and entrepreneurship.
Workshop - Solutions for a Better World
Do you want to develop an idea that has an impact on the world?
Get to know and try out the most important steps from an sustainable idea to a new business model under the guidance of a social entrepreneurship coach Ulrike Trenz in our interactive workshop!
No business idea or preparation is needed.
Sustainability Fair
Get a chance to learn about the sustainability-related student projects, initiatives and start-ups from our university!
Find out what projects your fellow students are working on and get inspired to come up with your own sustainable ideas!
Start-up Talk with Pottburri
Have you ever talked to a start-up that got a deal at the German Shark Tank show?
At our Start-up Talk you will get this unique chance!
Meet Antonia, the founder of the social start-up Pottburri from Straelen, and learn how she and her brother managed to convince investor Ralf Dümmel with their compostable plant pots.
After the presentation of the start-up, there will be a place for your curious questions!
Innovation Sprint
The company: fairnergy, a start-up from Kleve
The challenge: How can the city of Kleve become car-free in the future?
Well, do you already have some initial ideas? Take up the challenge and develop the best solution for fairnergy!
The Innovation Sprint is about finding the best solution to a real-life challenge of a local company.
This interactive workshop will help you to expand your know-how in creative and innovative brainstorming and learn about tools to create innovative solutions.
No preparation is needed.
Start-up Circle May
Let’s build a start-up community at the Rhine-Waal University!
Our informal Start-up Circle is a monthly session, at which the start-up community of the Rhine-Waal University gets together. It offers you the opportunity to share your start-up experience, get answers on your questions and connect with fellow students interested in start-ups and entrepreneurship.
This time we will shortly talk about start-up scholarships and have some quality networking time together.
We want to inspire, support and learn from each other!
No business idea or preparation is needed.
Innovation Factory
From idea to prototype in 3 days!
Dive into the world of an entrepreneur and learn hands-on what it takes to develop a promising business idea with the help of Design Thinking!
Together in a team you will step by step experience the idea generation process:
- Analyse the market and identify customer needs
- Generate ideas by using different design thinking tools
- Built a prototype (MVP) to make your idea demo-ready
- Pitch your prototype as a way to share your idea with potential customers
No business idea or preparation is needed.
Start-up Talk with Gorillas
Let the unicorn Gorillas take you on its entrepreneurial journey!
Take part in this legendary start-up talk with the German start-up Gorillas, which has been valued at over $1 billion. The Gorillas Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Broscheit, is going to tell you more about Gorillas entrepreneurial story including its ups and downs. After the start-up presentation the round will be open to your curious questions.
Gorillas is a start-up from Berlin providing delivery service for groceries and other everyday goods in big cities.
After the presentation of the start-up, we will open a Q&A session!
Start-up Circle April
Let’s build a start-up community at the Rhine-Waal University!
Our informal Start-up Circle is a monthly session, at which the start-up community of the Rhine-Waal University gets together. It offers you the opportunity to share your start-up experience, get answers on your questions and connect with fellow students interested in start-ups and entrepreneurship.
This time we will shortly exchange about differences in business cultures all over the world and have some quality networking time together.
We want to inspire, support and learn from each other!
Everybody with or without a business idea is welcome! No preparation or entrepreneurial experience needed.
Find your inner Entrepreneur!
Do you have what it takes to become an entrepreneur?
We want to help you answer this question!
In our full-day workshop you will work together with an expert on your skills and get to know your own purpose.
Through a personality test you can find out within a few minutes which skills you already bring to your future start-up and which team members you should still look for.
Let’s find out what entrepreneurial potential you have and how you can best use it!
Start-up Talk with Frailice
Get inspired by the success story of the start-up Frailice from Munich!
Frailice is the first and largest German online shop for luxurious chocolate strawberries in unique quality and appearance. The chocolate strawberries are lovingly handmade and delivered fresh and chilled exactly on the date you want them.
Find out how the start-up has achieved enormous popularity within a short time with the help of social media - Frailice currently has almost 60,000 followers on Instagram.
After the start-up presentation the round will be open to your curious questions.
Start me up!
10 steps to your own business
Boost you entrepreneurial motivation with a popular start-up coach Carolin Gattermann and find out, why the best time to become self-employed is during your studies.
We will also talk about entrepreneurship support at our university and show you, how to turn your idea into a business with our help.
Special guest: A HSRW start-up Ringelbox will share its student business experience with you.
Everybody with or without a business idea is welcome! No preparation needed.
Women's Circle #2
WES CIRCLE meets HS Rhein-Waal
Exchange ideas with other female founders and women interested in founding a company and get inspired by our speakers!
The Women Entrepreneurs in Science (WES) Circle is your chance to network and exchange ideas with experienced female founders and like-minded women interested in founding a company. In the Digitalk, speakers talk about their motivation, current challenges in their start-ups and give you tips and tricks for your own start into self-employment. In addition, you can speed-date with other founders and women interested in founding a business and perhaps meet your future co-founder and convince her of your idea.
The event takes place in cooperation with the Women Entrepreneurs in Science project. The project Women Entrepreneurs in Science is a network for female students, employees and graduates from NRW universities. The offer is available free of charge and it is aimed primarily at women. However, men are also not excluded!
Cross Innovation - From Idea to Prototype
Become an innovation creator at the Cross Innovation Lab (XI-Lab)!
Join our workshop for students, innovators & entrepreneurs developed and hosted by students of the HSRW!
Together we create an environment for cross innovation and stimulate creativity and ideas to find solutions and potentials for your ideas and projects!
Day 1: Ideation
• Use creative brainstorming techniques and processes of design thinking
• Generate ideas by engaging with each other, listening, and building on own or other ideas
• Design your solutions related to your ideas and projects and draw links between them
Day 2: Prototyping
• Make your idea more concrete and transform it into a promising business model
• Design an early form of prototypes to get your idea into business
• Establish business models to evaluate interested parties and investigate barriers to enter the market
Pitch your final idea in front of a jury: The best idea will be awarded a special prize!
Whether you have your own idea or not, everyone is welcome!
Entrepreneur Talk #8
Start-ups in different founding stages speak about their personal experiences, challenges and a life as a founder. Moreover, they are happy to answer your curious questions.
For the next Entrepreneur Talk we are happy to welcome two great start-ups:
Carsten Dolch from Foxbase & Felix Beinen from Lylu.
In 2016, the software start-up FoxBase from Düsseldorf developed a solution that digitalises B2B sales, radically accelerates it and increases the sales efficiency of B2B companies by up to 40 %. The software solution Digital Product Selector supports sales staff and customers in finding the best product easily and digitally in the shortest possible time - just like a good one-on-one consultation
The start-up Lylu has designed a tablet for senior citizens that is easy to use and never complicated. Felix and his team are developing Lylu to help elderly and lonely people find new friends through social media.
Carsten & Felix will tell more about their founding journey and about challenges. In addition, they will answer all your questions in an interactive Q&A session.
Start-up Simulation Game #3
Dive into the world of a start-up entrepreneur!
Get a feeling of how start-up functions! TOPSIM-Startup, is a start-up business simulation game, which simulates a surfboard manufacturing company.
Learn step by step about processes, which are going on in almost every start-up company:
- Idea generation and development of a business model
- Creation of a business plan
- Negotiation with investors about financing
- Company management after market entry
With different tools you will go through the start-up process. Finally you will have to survive with your company on the market.
Sustainability Start-ups Fair @ HSRW
Get a chance to learn about the sustainability-related student start-ups in our university!
The collaborative event between the AStA Sustainability Department and StartGlocal will introduce you to four student start-up teams who developed a business model on the idea of bringing better sustainable solutions:
Team 1: The Aerthlings - An app to gamify climate actions.
Team 2: ProteINsekt - Growing (and processing) organic mealworms for human consumption.
Team 3: StayAllEco - A sustainable booking platform to help make the travel industry more sustainable.
Team 4: Ways4Water - Floating gardens to improve water quality & biodiversity for all living beings.
At our virtual stall you will hear all about their projects and get a chance to ask questions during the live Q&A session.
Get encouraged to begin your own project by finding out what other students are doing or just take part by watching. Maybe you are the one who will come up with the next greatest start-up? Join to find out!
Financing Your Start-up Idea
Let’s talk about funding for start-ups!
Would you like to found your own start-up, but lacking the necessary capital? There are numerous funding programs for founders in Germany, which can help you to facilitate the start of your self-employment.
Our expert Björn Angenendt will explain you possibilities to finance your start-up idea. Get to know about self-financing, crowdfunding, accelerator programs and funding programs such as the “Gründerstipendium NRW” and “EXIST Gründerstipendium”.
Find out, what is really important when applying for these grants and how to successfully prepare for that!
Business in Germany
Gain intercultural skills for your start-up business in Germany!
The business etiquette, entrepreneurial behavior and professional life in your home-country could be sometimes quite different to those in Germany. These can often cause misunderstandings and challenges, when starting up a company as an international student/alumni/employee in Germany.
Our workshop is going to prepare you for the smooth cooperation with customers and business partners in Germany. Moreover, you will experience a general cultural sensibilisation and gain specific information about measures and rules, which have to be observed in the interaction with partners, authorities and banks in German business context.
Entrepreneur Talk #7
Start-ups in different founding stages speak about their personal experiences, challenges and a life as a founder. Moreover, they are happy to answer your curious questions.
For the next Entrepreneur Talk we are happy to welcome two great start-ups:
Julius Hoffmann from Choco & Friedrich Kalthoff from Kraftling.
The Berlin start-up Choco brings restaurateurs and wholesalers together via a digital ordering platform and improves the ordering process to save time, money and food. The Berlin-based food tech start-up is now receiving more than 82 million euros from US investors for further expansion. The start-up is committed to promoting talent with an immigrant background.
From your own kitchen to the supermarket: Kraftling, the Cologne-based startup produces freshly pressed, functional shots, juices and lemonade as fruity refreshment with vitamins.
Julius and Friedrich will tell more about their start-up journey and challenges. They will also answer all your questions in an interactive Q&A session.
HSRW Start-up Circle
Do you have a business idea but can’t get started?
Do you take just one step and then your idea dies a slow dead?
Are you looking for some peer-to-peer help?
Then join our new student initiative HSRW Start-up Circle, explore your business ideas and get in contact with other entrepreneurial students!
I´m Crystal, a student of Gender and Diversity, and I decided to organise HSRW Start-up Circle to help other students to get started and try out ideas.
Let´s inspire, support and learn from each other! I´m looking forward to seeing you.
Best Idea Cup 2021
Do you have an innovative business idea? Are you ready to compete?
Then do not miss the chance to win attractive prizes and participate in the student´s business idea competition BEST IDEA CUP 2021 organized by StartGlocal at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences! The best ideas will be invited to the online pitch in front of a jury. Three top ideas will get a prize money of 500€, certificate, and a start-up coaching for six months.
The application process ended on 13.08.2021. The best teams will be invited to pitch infront of a jury on 5th of October.
StartGlocal @ Freshers' Market
Want to get to know what StartGlocal is all about? Be sure to join us at the Virtual Freshers’ Market!
Adriana and Christina will give you a short introduction about student entrepreneurship and tell you, how StartGlocal supports it. Join us if you have any burning questions on your mind concerning entrepreneurship at Rhine-Waal University.
Follow this link to join
Innovation Workshop
An Entrepreneurship-workshop exclusively for HSRW employees.
In this workshop you can try out how your expertise in administration, teaching or research can lead to innovation:
- Practical introduction to design thinking methods
- Insights into innovation topics such as innovator profiles, megatrends & entrepreneurial values
- Tools for the development of innovative (start-up) ideas including a pitch
Whether you have your own start-up idea or not, every employee is welcome!
DEMO DAY Pitch Batch #2
DEMO DAY PITCH BATCH#2 - students of StartGlocal Academy present their innovative start-up ideas!
A filmroulette app, children´s mountain bike made of wood, the first German organic mealworm farm – within twelve online workshops of our StartGlocal Academy, 18 students from all faculties of the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences have developed their own start-up ideas and gained many new insights about starting up a business. Now it’s time for these 14 start-up teams to present their ideas in an online pitch!
Join our event and vote live for your favourite pitch! The three best start-up ideas will be awarded a prize.
Pressure Cooker Day #4
Create the best solution for a real challenge of a local company!
Challenge: Find virtual alternatives for the classic press trip
Company: MediaMixx GmbH
Take part in this interactive workshop and get in contact with companies from the region. The aim of the Pressure Cooker Day is to find the best solution for a particular challenge of a local company, while working with other students in a team. You will gain know-how on creativity and innovative thinking and learn about tools for the development of innovative solutions for the challenge.
At the end of the day, solutions of each student group will be pitched and presented in front of the StartGlocal Team and the company. The best idea will be awarded.
Entrepreneur Talk #6
EVENT CANCELLED
Start-ups in different founding stages speak about their personal experiences, challenges and a life as a founder. Moreover, they are happy to answer your curious questions.
For the next Entrepreneur Talk we are happy to welcome Marc Wittkamp from tradingtwins. The start-up from Cologne develops and runs a B2B-matchmaking platform for commercial purchases.
The team of 13 people connects smaller and medium-sized companies with suppliers of complex and cost-intensive products and services. Recently, the young company closed a financial deal of one million euro. Marc will tell more about his founding journey, about challenges and which role Ottmar, the office dog plays.
In addition, Marc will answer your questions in an interactive Q&A session.
Start-up Simulation Game
Dive into the world of a start-up entrepreneur!
Get a feeling of how start-up functions! TOPSIM-Startup, is a start-up business simulation game, which simulates a surfboard manufacturing company.
Learn step by step about processes, which are going on in almost every start-up company:
- Idea generation and development of a business model
- Creation of a business plan
- Negotiation with investors about financing
- Company management after market entry
With different tools you will go through the start-up process. Finally you will have to survive with your company on the market.
Intercultural Training for Start-ups
Gain intercultural skills for your start-up business in Germany!
The business etiquette, entrepreneurial behavior and professional life in your home-country could be sometimes quite different to those in Germany. These can often cause misunderstandings and challenges, when starting up a company as an international student/alumni/employee in Germany.
Our workshop is going to prepare you for the smooth cooperation with customers and business partners in Germany. Moreover, you will experience a general cultural sensibilisation and gain specific information about measures and rules, which have to be observed in the interaction with partners, authorities and banks in German business context.
The number of participants is limited to 15 international students/alumni/employees.
Entrepreneur Talk #5
Start-ups in different founding stages speak about their personal experiences, challenges and a life as a founder. Moreover, they are happy to answer your curious questions.
In the next talk, which takes place in the context of the Social Entrepreneurship Week at the Faculty of Society and Economics, Hanno Weimer will present you his start-up GROME. His business idea focuses on an integral health promotion combined with an experience of nature for employees. With its training programme for mental, physical and social well-being for companies, the offer is like a breath of fresh air for companies. What makes them special? The “green seminar room”, a vegetable patch in a permacultural urban garden, which is the basis of collective gardening, seminars and cooking workshops. Join our digital talk and learn more about the founders and their business story. Also, Hanno will answer your questions in an interactive Q&A session.
All students, alumni and employees of the university as well as guests are warmly welcome.
Alumni Entrepreneur Talk
Get to know a founder of a social tourism enterprise who studied at HSRW!
Matteo Bierschneider graduated in 2015 with a degree in Sustainable Tourism. In 2017, he founded the social start-up Wise Steps Travel in Indonesia together with his wife.
In our Alumni Entrepreneur Talk, Matteo will talk about his entrepreneurial experience and the challenges of social entrepreneurship in the tourism industry from his perspective. Join the talk, get inspired by Matteo’s career path, and use the opportunity to ask him all your questions.
This event addresses primarily students of the Faculty for Society and Economics. However, all students of the Rhine-Waal University are welcome.
Your purpose - create your way!
Are you a female student thinking about starting up a business? Then discover with us, if entrepreneurship could be a possible career path for you!
Within the workshop “Your Purpose” we will present you different methods that will support you to find your “Why” - let’s try them! Define your individual values as well as your vision and goals for the coming months and years and realise what possibilities you have.
You don’t need anything more than yourself and about 2 hours to take part in the workshop. Get to know yourself better and exchange ideas with others who are facing the same challenge: What is actually my why?
Find your way - develop your strengths
This event is a cooperation of the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences and the project Women Entrepreneurs in Science. The project is a network for female students, female employees and female graduates of universities of North Rhine-Westphalia. This offer is primarily aimed at women, but men are not excluded!
StartGlocal Stammtisch
StartGlocal Stammtisch #3
Topic: Purpose Economy
Our informal StartGlocal Stammtisch is a regular monthly meeting! It offers you the opportunity to share your start-up experience, answer questions and connect with fellow students, who are interested in start-ups. With or without a start-up idea - everybody is welcome at our StartGlocal Stammtisch!
Women's Circle #1
WES CIRCLE meets HS Rhein-Waal
Exchange ideas with other female founders and women interested in founding a company and get inspired by our speakers!
The Women Entrepreneurs in Science (WES) Circle is your chance to network and exchange ideas with experienced female founders and like-minded women interested in founding a company. In the Digitalk, speakers talk about their motivation, current challenges in their start-ups and give you tips and tricks for your own start into self-employment. In addition, you can speed-date with other founders and women interested in founding a business and perhaps meet your future co-founder and convince her of your idea.
The event takes place in cooperation with the Women Entrepreneurs in Science project. The project Women Entrepreneurs in Science is a network for female students, employees and graduates from NRW universities. The offer is available free of charge and it is aimed primarily at women. However, men are also not excluded!
Pressure Cooker Day #3
Create the best solution for a real challenge of a local company!
Challenge: What are the opportunities for new, sustainable business ideas for a former agricultural company?
Take part in this interactive workshop and get in contact with companies from the region. The aim of the Pressure Cooker Day is to find the best solution for a particular challenge of a local company, while working with other students in a team. You will gain know-how on creativity and innovative thinking and learn about tools for the development of innovative solutions for the challenge.
At the end of the day, solutions of each student group will be pitched and presented in front of the StartGlocal Team and the company. The best idea will be awarded.
Entrepreneur Talk #4
Get to know founders and their innovative business ideas!
Start-ups in different founding stages speak about their personal experiences, challenges and a life as a founder. Moreover, they are happy to answer your curious questions.
In our next talk, Ruben and Timon, the founders of Hey!Koala will talk about their entrepreneurial experience. As brothers, they are not only united by their surnames, but also by their passion for celebrating. That’s how they invented the after party drink LULOCO!
Join our talk and get inspired by the spirit of the two founders! Also your questions can be answered in an interactive Q&A session with Ruben and Timon.
All students, alumni and employees of the university as well as guests are warmly welcome.
Be part of Enactus
Join Enactus Kleve and become part of the team of like-minded students of the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences.
You have an idea for a start-up or would like to support one of our active projects?
As part of the Enactus network, we as Enactus Kleve e.V. work on entrepreneurial projects with sustainable and social aspects within the framework of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Join us and learn more about our current projects and how you can help us make them successful.
All students of the Rhine-Waal University are welcome.
Start-up your Mind
Are you ready to be a start-up entrepreneur?
Get to know our StartGlocal team! We will talk about support possibilities at our university and show you how you can turn your innovative idea into a successful start-up company with our help!
- What is a start-up?
- What makes a promising idea?
- How can I get support for my start-up idea at Rhine-Waal University?
Freshers' Day
Get to know the StartGlocal Team at the Freshers’ Day
New to the Rhine-Waal University and interested in start-ups?
Meet us at the Freshers’ Day and we will tell you about our project StartGlocal - Global Spirit for Local Start-ups!
All students, alumni and employees of the Rhine-Waal university are welcome.
Entrepreneur Talk #3
Get to know founders and their innovative business ideas!
Start-ups in different founding stages speak about their personal experiences, challenges and a life as a founder. Moreover, they are happy to answer your curious questions.
Imagine you have a great business idea, but, where do you start? - Michael, co-founder of the app start-up Legmon, gives a presentation about his entrepreneurial experience. Thereby he will not only talk about the typical start-up mentality, but will also openly discuss his own mistakes and provide the participants with actionable insights. Finally, your questions can be answered in an interactive Q&A session.
All students, alumni and employees of the university as well as guests are warmly welcome.
Entrepreneur Talk #2
Get to know founders and their innovative business ideas!
Start-ups in different founding stages speak about their personal experiences, challenges and a life as a founder. Moreover, they are happy to answer your curious questions.
Our next guest is the start-up GreenTrax from Cleve, which specializes on support of e-mobility. GreenTrax is committed to a sustainable energy supply that enables a fair, livable and self-determined life for all people. In doing so, the value is placed especially on sustainability, transparency and fairness.
All students and employees of the university as well as alumni are warmly welcome.
DEMO DAY Pitch Batch#1
DEMO DAY PITCH BATCH#1 - students of the StartGlocal Academy present their innovative start-up ideas!
A mystery travel agency, environmentally friendly worm box or a modular car – within ten online workshops of our first StartGlocal Academy, 21 students from all faculties of the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences have developed their own start-up ideas and gained many new insights about starting up a business. Now it’s time for these 12 start-up teams to present their ideas in an online pitch!
Join our event and vote live for your favourite pitch! The three best start-up ideas will be awarded a prize.
Crash Course Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Become a sciencepreneur!
A workshop only for employees of the HSRW.
This workshop offers you an opportunity to test, how your expertise in teaching and research can lead to innovation and potentially a start-up activitiy. You will get a chance talk to entrepreneurs, get to know design thinking methods and work in a team in order to develop a start-up idea. The workshop covers following topics:
- Rolemodel Talk: Exchange ideas with founders on the topic of entrepreneurship
- Idea generation: Develop solution ideas for a problem
- Prototyping: Make an idea tangible by developing easy prototypes
- Business Model Canvas: flesh out the idea with a value proposition and business model
- Pitch training: Learn, how to convince people about your innovative idea
This is the right course for you if you have no previous knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation methods or if you want to repeat and deepen your knowledge in these fields. With or without a start-up idea, everybody is welcome.
The number of participants is limited to 15 employees of the HSRW.
Time Management for Founders
Efficient Organization and Time Management for Founders
Did you know that one in three start-up companies is being overhelmed by bureacratic requirements? Especially in the initial phase, entrepreneurs need support in organizational matters, otherwise they are facing the risk of an early end of their entrepreneurial activities.
Join our interactive workshop that will teach you, how to set up a basic organizational structure in your start-up and will give you tips on effective, time-saving and legally compliant organizational tools.
Workshop content:
- Organization analog or digital?
- Structure for your start-up office
- Optimizing workflows
- Effective appointment and task management
- Legally compliant storage of documents
Entrepreneur Talk
Take part in the Entrepeneur Talk and get to know founders and their innovate business ideas.
Start-ups in different founding phases speak about their personal experiences, challenges and their lifes as a founder.
Socialbnb marks the beginning of our new series “Entrepreneur Talk“ . The start-up, which is located in Cologne, is an online platform that connects travelers with aid organizations from all around the world. It is an innovative approach to help local aid organizations become financially independent from donations. At the same time, Socialbnb gives travelers the chance of experiencing locals and their culture up close.
All students and employees of the university as well as alumni are welcome.
Female Entrepreneurship
Let’s empower female entrepreneurs!
In this interactive workshop, our expert is going to show you not only requirements and challenges, but also potentials of the self-employment. She will also help you to find out, if founding of a start-up would be in line with your own personal vision and give you tips of how to make it real.
The workshop is offering space for all topics regarding female entrepreneurship and offers you a platform to exchange your start-up with each other and with our experts. Overcome your uncertainties and become stronger for your own self-employment.
Start-up Simulation Game
Dive into the world of a start-up entrepreneur!
Get a feeling of how start-up functions! TOPSIM-Startup, is a start-up business simulation game, which simulates a surfboard manufacturing company.
Learn step by step about processes, which are going on in almost every start-up company:
- Idea generation and development of a business model
- Creation of a business plan
- Negotiation with investors about financing
- Company management after market entry
With different tools you will go through the start-up process. Finally you will have to survive with your company on the market.
Pressure Cooker Day #2
Create the best solution for a real challenge of a local company!
Take part in this interactive workshop and get in contact with companies from the region. The aim of the Pressure Cooker Day is to find the best solution for a particular challenge of a local company, while working with other students in a team. To achieve this aim, a creativity and innovation coach is going to cheer all teams up throughout the day. The coach will also give you several tips and tools for the development of innovative ideas and solutions for the challenge. Moreover, each team will be accompanied by the CEO or a manger from the company.
At the end of the day, solutions of each student group will be pitched and presented in front of the StartGlocal Team and the company. The best idea will be awarded.
Intercultural Training for Start-ups
Gain intercultural skills for your start-up business in Germany!
The business etiquette, entrepreneurial behavior and professional life in your home-country could be sometimes quite different to those in Germany. These can often cause misunderstandings and challenges, when starting up a company as an international student/alumni/employee in Germany.
Our workshop is going to prepare you for the smooth cooperation with customers and business partners in Germany. Moreover, you will experience a general cultural sensibilisation and gain specific information about measures and rules, which have to be observed in the interaction with partners, authorities and banks in German business context.
Be part of Enactus: Info Session
Shaping our future sustainably. Through team spirit, innovation and entrepreneurship.
In cooperation between the StartGlocal team and students of the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, we are planning to launch our own Enactus Team at our university.
As an international organization, Enactus pursues the realization of the 17 goals for sustainable development defined by the United Nations. Enactus is about students who want to contribute to a more sustainable world through entrepreneurial activity.
At universities all around the world are Enactus teams working on innovative and social solutions for the future. Over 1700 students at 35 universities in Germany are already part of the network.
Now, by forming our own team, we also want to become part of this worldwide movement and realize successful social entrepreneurship projects.
For the realization of our own team we need motivated students who are interested in entrepreneurial activities and who can bring their individual knowledge into our own Enactus projects.
Join our event and learn about Enactus in more detail. Adriana Boldisova from the StartGlocal team and a student initiator of our university´s Enactus team Max Erwig are looking forward to meeting you!
The participation is only for students of the HSRW .
Funding programs for start-ups
Think Big, Start Lean:
7 ways to get funding for your start-up idea
Would you like to found your own start-up, but lacking the necessary capital? There are numerous funding programs for founders in Germany, which can help you to facilitate the start of your self-employment.
Our expert and start-up founder Philipp Winkmann will explain you possibilities to finance your start-up idea. Get to know about self-financing, crowdfunding, accelerator programs and funding programs such as the “Gründerstipendium NRW” and “EXIST Gründerstipendium”. Find out, what is really important when applying for these grants and how to successfully prepare for that!
The number of participants is limited to 25 students/alumni/employees.
Social Impact Investing
Social Impact Investing
Which sources of finance do social start-ups have? What are the differences and which aspects should founders pay attention to?
You will get all the answers in this exciting event with a Q&A-session at the end of the presentation.
Our speaker Jasper Schlump is Head of Investor Relations at capacura, an impact-investor. As he has built a start-up before, Jasper knows the founder´s point of view, also when it comes to looking for a reliable investor. At the same time, in his position at capacura, he can speak from an investor´s point of view and can tell more about what really matters to investors when looking for promising investments. Moreover, Jasper will present capacura and its impact investment philosophy.
This event addresses primarily students of the Faculty for Society and Economics. However, all students of the Rhine-Waal University are welcome.