Entrepreneurship Day
We Are Celebrating Passau's Entrepreneurial Spirit!
6 July 2023 | Innsteg Auditorium
Are you interested in getting to know Passau's Entrepreneurial Community and being inspired by exciting start-up ideas? Are you a founder yourself and looking for a way to establish your start-up in the scene? Are you an investor or business angel looking for promising start-up ideas?
Then stay informed and look forward to E'Day 2023!
Entrepreneurship Award of the University of Passau
For the second year in a row, in 2023, the University of Passau will present the Entrepreneurship Award to honor its most innovative and promising founders and start-up teams. The winners will receive a prize of 3,000 euros, donated by Neuburger Gesprächskreis e.V..
Founders and start-up teams with a connection to the University of Passau who have an innovative, growth and/or impact-oriented business model at the stage of market maturity are eligible to apply. The application period runs from 1 May 2023 until26 May 2023.
For more information and the application form, please visit the Entrepreneurship Award website, or simply click on the button.
Start-up Fair | Matching | Pitch Competition
Are you looking for an opportunity to present your start-up or your business idea in the Passau scene, to make contacts and to get feedback? Then take the opportunity and apply until (extended) June 11th for a booth at our start-up fair or test your storytelling skills at our pitch competition with audience voting.
Click the button to register and get more information.
Still looking for employees or co-founders? With a posting on our bulletin board, your request for team expansion will be seen by all interested parties and will give you the opportunity to network with potential team members at the booth as well.
Simply fill out your application for team expansion (internship, working student, co-founder, permanent position, etc.) for the bulletin board. Either bring it yourself on E'Day or send it to (vanessa.fischer@uni-passau.de) by 3rd July 2023.
Programme
3 steps to your start-up: Workshop with Katharina Berres from Mountain Zebra
You already have a business idea? You know that entrepreneurship is your thing? You dream of making the world a better place through your business? In this workshop you will learn the basics of starting a business. When starting up, it is important to successfully place your idea on the market in just a few steps and in the right order. Sign up and give founding a try!
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Workshop "How to start your start-up"
Guided tour of the INN.KUBATOR start-up center Passau
START-UP, DIGITALIZATION AND INNOVATION IN THE REGION
The INN.KUBATOR Passau, as part of the "Gründerzentrum Digitalisierung Niederbayern", is the place for the start-up scene in the region. Get to know us better during a guided building tour!
On 1100sqm in a prime location, we support startups and those interested in founding with events, workshops, office and co-working space as well as free coaching and individual consulting. In this way, we establish a powerful startup scene in the field of digitalization and support medium-sized businesses in their digitalization. After all, a well-connected startup scene is an opportunity for medium-sized businesses in the Passau region. Ideas of young startups can support the adaptation to the digital age.
Click here to visit the INN.KUBATOR website and the Instagram page of the Gründerzentrum Digitalisierung Niederbayern.
To make the tour a great experience for everyone, it will take place in partial groups depending on the number of registrations. You will be notified of your final time in advance via email.
Location: INN.KUBATOR Passau, Innstraße 69b, 94032 Passau
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Guided tour of the INN.KUBATOR
Workshop "Project Management for Founders"
No matter what your university background is, whether you are at the beginning of founding your start-up or facing your first customer contact, the right project management is crucial in many situations. Let INSTEAD, Passau's student consultancy, guide you through different phases and some important tools of project management based on a concrete use case.
Sign up and we will share our know-how for your success in your start-up.
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Workshop "Project Management for Founders"
Workshop "Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation"
You are interested in the topic of founding a company and would like to solve ecological or social problems with your idea (already existing or not)? Then we cordially invite you to the workshop with the university group Enactus, the social entrepreneurship experts of the University of Passau. Together you will deal with the idea generation process and the problem analysis with the help of the Social Development Goals of the UN.
The central question is: What are challenges in the regional, national and global context that we want to solve in an entrepreneurial way? Register now!
Location: Innstrasse 40, Room NK 401
Time: 06.07.23, 12.00 -14.00 pm
Workshop "Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation"
At 4.30 pm, the main programme of the Entrepreneurship Day will begin.
Key Note with special guest
Entrepreneurship Award Ceremony
In 2023, the University of Passau will present the Entrepreneurship Award for the first time to honor its most innovative and promising founders or founding teams. The winners will receive a prize of 3,000 euros, donated by Neuburger Gesprächskreis e.V., as well as three months of mentoring on product-market fitwith Jürgen Eckel, Managing Director and Partner, Head of Europe, Middle East, South America and Africa at BCG Digital Ventures.
The finalists will present their business idea in a pitch on the Main Stage. This will be followed by the festive presentation of the award by the jury.
Start-up Fair
Look forward to start-ups from all stations of the start-up journey, from the Passau region and beyond!
Matching
Still looking for employees or co-founders? With a posting on our bulletin board, your request for team expansion will be seen by all interested parties and will give you the opportunity to network with potential team members at the booth as well.
Simply fill out your application for team expansion (internship, working student, co-founder, permanent position, etc.) for the bulletin board. Either bring it yourself on E'Day or send it to (vanessa.fischer@uni-passau.de).
Pitch Competition
10 teams get the chance to convince the audience with a 3-minute elevator pitch. The business ideas are presented briefly, concisely and entertainingly on the Main Stage of the Entrepreneurship Day and the audience votes live for their favorites. The winners can look forward to fame and glory as well as great non-cash prizes and can network afterwards.
With this pitch competition we also want to offer young teams, founders a platform to present their early-stage business ideas and train their pitch skills.
What our E'Day offers for...
The Entrepreneurship Day is designed for everyone who is interested in the topic of founding and start-ups, but also for everyone who is curious. A diverse program awaits you every year: In addition to workshops, pitches and the festive ceremony for the 2nd Entrepreneurship Award of the University of Passau, we offer you an exclusive keynote speech and a start-up fair with the opportunity to find exciting jobs or internships.
Experience first-hand what is developing in the start-up ecosystem at the University of Passau. The E'Day offers you, as company representatives and business angels, the opportunity to establish contact with new start-up teams and expand your network with committed, creative minds. Be the first to discover the potential of new ideas and business models emerging directly from the university.
Take advantage of this opportunity and also network with other founders, company representatives, business angels and potential interns! In addition, you can apply again in 2023 for pitches, the start-up fair and the Entrepreneurship Award of the University of Passau.
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These are the winners of the E'Award 2022
1st prize: nevi GmbH
€3,000 in prize money, donated by the Neuburger Gesprächskreis e.V., and three months of mentoring with Jürgen Eckel, BCG Digital Ventures.
2nd prize: djoon foods GmbH
3rd prize: Career Captain
This was E'Day 2022:
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