About PATEC

With the EXIST-funded project PATEC - Passau, the Entrepreneurial Campus, the University of Passau is on its way to becoming a start-up university.

The existing start-up potential is large. We are already supporting many students who are enthusiastic about founding their own company, from the initial idea to their own start-up. For example, they receive advice on funding programmes, take part in competitions and networking events or acquire start-up-relevant know-how in the entrepreneurship certificate programme or work on their own business idea.

In order to develop towards such a genuine entrepreneurial university, the support services will continue to be expanded with the help of PATEC. Students and doctoral candidates will be inspired and supported along the entire entrepreneurial journey, from the generation of ideas to the founding of a start-up. In particular, the start-up potential among students of the humanities, social and cultural sciences as well as computer science is to be activated even more strongly and the proportion of women in - increasingly interdisciplinary - start-up teams is to be improved. In addition, the previous focus on digital entrepreneurship will be expanded by sustainability and interculturality.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Barmeyer

Interculturality Star-up Hub

Our world is becoming more and more international and therefore more intercultural. What could be more natural than intercultural entrepreneurship?

Chair of Intercultural Communication

Prof. Dr. Suleika Bort

Sustainability Start-up Hub

Sustainability must be a central component of all corporate and social activity.

Chair of Business Administration with focus on International Management and Social Entrepreneurship

Prof. Dr. Carolin Häussler

Business Model Start-up Hub

Entrepreneurship means changing and shaping! This is what the country needs and we support it with passion!

Chair of Organization, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship

Dr. Günther Hribek

PATEC Project Director

We see the enormous start-up potential of our students and want to awaken their enthusiasm for start-ups and offer them support across the university.

Transferzentrum der Universität Passau

Prof. Dr. Kai von Lewinski

The law: sometimes strict, sometimes flexible - but you have to know it. The Law Clinic helps to identify and solve the important legal questions of start-ups.

Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht, Medien- und Informationsrecht

Prof. Dr. Susanne Mayr

Digital Start-up Hub

The human factor plays a decisive role when setting up a business: a start-up idea may be "brilliant", but if the potential users do not share this opinion or if they are not convinced by the handling of the new offer, the idea will fail. It is precisely this user perspective that we will bring to the PATEC project.

Lehrstuhl für Psychologie mit Schwerpunkt Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion

Dr. Annekatrin Meißner

Sustainability Start-up Hub

Sustainability is a central key for a sustainable economy and society - with our hub we want to support this development!

Institut für Angewandte Ethik in Wirtschaft, Aus- und Weiterbildung (Ethik WAW)

Prof. Dr. Jan H. Schumann

Business Model Start-up Hub

Choosing the right marketing strategy is central to the market success of any start-up. We are happy to support young start-up enthusiasts in making good decisions here.

Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit Schwerpunkt Marketing und Innovation

Participating in the cross-faculty and cross-university start-up support project are:

Institut für Angewandte Ethik in Wirtschaft, Aus- und Weiterbildung (Administration: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Bleyer; Management: Dr. Annekatrin Meißner)
Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit Schwerpunkt Internationales Management und Social Entrepreneurship (Prof. Dr. Suleika Bort)
Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit Schwerpunkt Marketing und Innovation (Prof. Dr. Jan H. Schumann)
Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit Schwerpunkt Marketing und Services (Prof. Dr. Dirk Totzek)
Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit Schwerpunkt Organisation, Technologiemanagement und Entrepreneurship (Prof. Dr. Carolin Häussler)
Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit Schwerpunkt Strategisches Management, Innovation und Entrepreneurship (Prof. Dr. Andreas König)
Lehrstuhl für Data Science (Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer)
Lehrstuhl für digitale und strategische Kommunikation (Prof. Dr. Thomas Knieper)
Lehrstuhl für Interkulturelle Kommunikation (Prof. Dr. Christoph Barmeyer)
Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht, Medien- und Informationsrecht (Prof. Dr. Kai von Lewinski)
Lehrstuhl für Psychologie mit Schwerpunkt Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion (Prof. Dr. Susanne Mayr)
Abteilung IV: "Transfer und Qualifizierung" (Management: Dr. Günther Hribek)

The PATEC - Passau the Entrepreneurial Campus project is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climateaction as part of the EXIST Potentials funding programme. The aim is to support the development of a vibrant start-up culture at universities throughout Germany. The project has a duration of four years (09/2020 to 08/2024).