Sustainability
Is sustainability relevant for your start-up? And is it possible to found a successful company with a sustainable idea? The answer to both questions is a definite "yes"!
Find out why you should not disregard the topic of sustainability in connection with entrepreneurship and how you can shape your start-up in an environmentally conscious and socially responsible way at the Sustainability Start-up Hub of PATEC - Passau The Entrepreneurial Campus.
The Sustainability Start-up Hub is one PATEC's five other start-up hubs, each specializing in one key area. It is organized by the Chair of Business Administration with a focus on International Management and Social Entrepreneurship and the Institute for Applied Ethics in Business, Education and Training.
With our expertise in the field of ethics and sustainable entrepreneurship, we support prospective start-ups in a future-oriented design of their company!
Sustainability Coaching
Prospective founders and founding teams can take advantage of sustainability coaching with us according to their needs and independent of their own degree program.
- Sustainability Coaching as a part of the extended Honours Degree SoSe 2022
- Sustainability Coaching in the Sustainable Entrepreneurship Seminar SoSe 2022
- Sustainability Coaching as a part of the "5-Euro-Business-Wettbewerb" SoSe 2022
- Sustainability Coaching as a part of the extendedHonours Degree SoSe 2021
- Sustainability Coaching in the Sustainable Entrepreneurship Seminar SoSe 2021
- Sustainability Coaching as a part of the "5-Euro-Business-Wettbewerb" SoSe 2021
- Individual coaching on sustainability topics (by appointment)
Contact: sustainablehub.patec@uni-passau.de
As part of the PATEC project, the Sustainability Start-up Hub offers interested start-ups various opportunities to network with each other and exchange ideas on the topic of sustainability. For this purpose, there is a Sustainable Start-up Network on the one hand and our annual Community Nights on the other.
Past Community Nights
The Sustainability Start-up Hub organizes an annual Community Night on the topic of sustainability and business start-ups. In this context, young and established founders present themselves and there is the opportunity for exchange and networking.
Crowdfunding and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Community Night on 17 May 2022
On 17 May 2022, the topic of crowdfunding for sustainable start-ups was discussed in detail: First, Dr Andrew Isaak presented the topic from a scientific perspective. Afterwards, the start-up Djoon, represented by Carolin and Martin Grellner, presented the realisation of their first crowdfunding campaign. Both presentations concluded that crowdfunding is particularly suitable for sustainable start-ups, even if it requires intensive planning. exciting insights into sustainable entrepreneurship
Community Night on 18 January 2021
On 18 January 2021, the Sustainability Start-up Hub of PATEC (Passau the Entrepreneurial Campus) hosted a Community Night. In the virtual event, up to 48 participants dealt with the topic of "Sustainable Entrepreneurship".
Dr. Annekatrin Meißner and Nelly Rahimy introduced the evening with an introductory lecture. The questions "What is sustainability anyway?" and "What role does sustainable entrepreneurship play?" were of particular importance. Afterwards, two startups reported on their sustainable startup journey: KurkuMama, a very young start-up that aims to enrich both women in Costa Rica and people in Germany with its innovative turmeric latte drink powder. On the other hand, the sister companies Sagaan and Nevi were presented. Both work with the traditionally used birch bark as packaging and surface material. In the following discussion, the corporate structure of "Purpose Driven Organizations" was a major topic. We thank both start-ups for their contributions and wish them much success for the future. In the course of this, we would also like to thank all participants for their active participation and the stimulating discussions and look forward to the next Community Night at the beginning of the summer semester.
Networking Events
Sustainability Meets Entrepreneurship
On June 29, 2021, the Sustainability Start-up Hub and the Transfer Center organized a networking event as part of the Sustainable Weeks. As Sustainable Entrepreneurship offers the possibility to change economic processes towards more sustainability, four sustainable start-ups in different founding phases and from different areas (social & ecological) were invited. KurkuMama, INN.MYBAG (Uni Passau), Asante Sanaa (Uni Bayreuth) and Nexol Photovolthermic AG (Uni Ulm) were among them. In addition, the teams from the current social entrepreneurship seminar and the 5-Euro-Business competition were able to exchange ideas with the start-ups about their emerging business ideas.
Our Start-up Hub offers a wide range of qualification opportunities in the form of courses, seminars, certificate programs, and extracurricular training.
2023
- Sustainability & Business Ethics Modul (Master)
- Global Justice & Business Ethics (Bachelor)
- Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship WiSe (Bachelor)
- Sustainable Entrepreneurship Seminar WiSe (Bachelor)
- Sustainable Business Incubation as a part of the extended Honours Degrees 2023 (Bachelor and Master)
2022
- Sustainability & Business Ethics Modul (Master)
- Global Justice & Business Ethics (Bachelor)
- Sustainable Entrepreneurship Seminar SoSe (Bachelor)
- Sustainable Business Incubation as a part of the extended Honours Degrees SoSe (Bachelor and Master)
2021
- Social Entrepreneurship SeminarSoSe (Master)
- Seminar "Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik" WiSe (Master)
- Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship WiSe (Bachelor)
- Sustainable Business Incubation as a part of the "5-Euro-Business-Wettbewerbs" SoSe (Bachelor and Master)
Sustainable start-up network
With this network, we offer a stage to aspiring and established start-ups with a sustainability focus. By sustainability-related, we mean ideas that focus on solutions to challenges in the social and ecological fields. In addition, this network focuses on the relationship to the University of Passau, the region and the start-up activities taking place here. The aim is for founders to be able to network with each other via this platform and to come into contact and exchange ideas with people interested in founding a company.
Barrier-free learning at any location
Our idea:
Imagine a life in which you can develop your knowledge and experience at any time from the comfort of your home - perfectly integrated into your everyday life. We at the amosum Academy offer professional training in the fields of education, nursing and psychology - tailored to your individual work and life situation.
Business location: Passau/ Freyung
We offer expertise in:
- Business start-up in the "social sector
- Conceptnext GmbH
- Grünschnitt gGmbH
- amosum GmbH
- CreAlpha GmbH
...and look forward to exchange about:
- Promote projects correctly
- Customer acquisition
Reference to the University of Passau:
Mentoring in the Seminar for Social Entrepreneurship SoSe 2021 (PATEC)
Feel free to contact us via:
Thanks to art!
Our idea: Asante Sanaa - a fashion brand that is all about East African Art. We bring paintings of local artists to Germany, but we don't just sell them, we bring them to our streets on shirts, hoodies, jute bags etc.. In this way, we enable the artists to earn better, diversified incomes, which breaks their previous dependence on tourism. Our customers also experience an impact through cultural exchange and receive a product with a very special story!
Unternehmensstandort: Bayreuth/Fulda
We offer expertise in:
- Sustainable textile production
- Import of goods from third countries/LDCs
- Brand Building
- Online store building
- Business competitions
...and look forward to exchanges about:
- Sustainable textile production
- Art
- Start-up financing
- Scaling models
Relationship to the University of Passau: Contact through a strong network between the University of Bayreuth and Passau. We also presented ourselves at the sustainability week of the University of Passau.
Feel free to contact us via:
https://www.instagram.com/asante.sanaa/?hl=de |https://www.linkedin.com/company/asante-sanaa|https://asante-sanaa.de/| hallo@asante-sanaa.de
djoon - the better praline
Our idea:
Our vision is to offer a better alternative to conventional sweets. To this end, we have developed super delicious organic date-based chocolates, which we are currently already selling very successfully via a crowdfunding campaign (www.startnext.com/djoon). From August 2021, our online store will also launch.
Our chocolates are made by hand in the Munich area. In the process, we only use natural, vegan ingredients from organic cultivation and do not add any sugar at all. We also attach great importance to the origin of our ingredients. We want to be able to trace all components back to the farm and rely on fair and transparent partnerships.
Business location: München
We offer expertise in:
- (Food) Start-up network in Munich
- Organic certification and production possibilities
- Crowdfunding
...and look forward to exchanges about:
- Sustainable & fair supplier relationships
- Cooperation & distribution contacts
Relation to the University of Passau:
Our team consists of 4 co-founders, 2 of which are Uni Passau alumni (Carolin and Martin Grellner).
Feel free to contact us via:
martin@djoon.de | www.djoon.de | https://www.instagram.com/djoon_foods/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/djoon/
Make your start-up in Germany easy!
Our idea:
The idea behind establi is to help people who do not speak German to start their own business and thus overcome the language barrier. The platform brings the users step by step to their individual entrepreneurial goals in the form of simple and understandable lessons (which include texts, explanatory videos & checklists). In addition, an internal network helps them to find advisors and other mentors.
Business location: Passau
We offer expertise in:
- Anti-discrimination, integration promotion
- Digital information dissemination on starting a business
- Mediation of network contacts
...and look forward to exchange about:
- Migrant economy
- Creation of digital info products
- Relation to the University of Passau:
Ahmet studies teaching at the University of Passau and found his way here through contact with the Institute for Applied Ethics in Economics and the INN.KUBATOR.
Feel free to contact us via:
local, sustainable, social
Our idea:
INN.MYBAG upcycles outdated promotional materials, especially roll-ups, into sustainable shoppers, laptop sleeves, toiletry bags and more.
We offer companies and organizations a sustainable alternative to the conventional disposal of their obsolete advertising materials and the opportunity to have individually branded giveaways made from them for customers and employees. In addition, we sell our unique items, which are handmade in Germany, to B2C customers, primarily via our online store at www.innmybag.de.
In this way, we create a win-win-win situation: We offer our customers in the B2C and B2B sectors a distinctive product. At the same time, short-lived advertising banners and other stable plastic materials are returned to the product cycle by INN.MYBAG to conserve resources and avoid plastic waste. Furthermore, we generate social impact by creating jobs with family-friendly, flexible working hours for refugee women who often have difficulties integrating into the German labor market.
Business location: Passau
We offer expertise in:
- Processing of promotional materials based on plastic
- Design of bags and more
- Website creation and online store operation with Wix
- Photography and video editing
...and look forward to exchanging ideas about:
- Customer acquisition
- Social Media Marketing Cooperations
- Media reach
- Financing
Relationship to the University of Passau: Our team emerges from the social entrepreneurship network Enactus Germany e. V., specifically from the university group Enactus Passau. In addition, we are currently participating in the Honours Degree Program.
Feel free to contact us via:
kontakt@innmybag.de |www.innmybag.de | https://www.instagram.com/inn.mybag/ |https://www.facebook.com/Innmybag | https://de.linkedin.com/company/inn-mybag
Women Empowerment with every sip
Our idea:
KurkuMama produces the trendy drink KurkuMama Latte, based on the traditional recipe for Golden Milk. For this purpose, the start-up works together with an agricultural cooperative in Costa Rica founded by women for women. The product is intended both to encourage consumers in Germany to lead healthier lives and to promote women in Costa Rica in order to combat gender inequality.
Business location: Passau
We offer exptertise in:
- Sustainable business model
- Import of spices
- Organic farming
- Women Empowerment
...and look forward to sharing about:
- Superfood
- Market trends
Relation to the University of Passau: Our idea originated in the context of the "Social Entrepreneurship" module.
Feel free to contact us via:
info@kurku-mama.de |instagram.com/kurku_mama
You are also welcome to vote for us in the competition for sustainable startups, Generation D, on LinkedIN: GoKurkuMama
Better to think freely
Our idea:
Lieberté is a creative media product. The first edition is dedicated to the theme "Utopias - It's our future. What do we make of it?" From a world without prisons to solidarity-based agriculture and basic income, six utopias are waiting for you. 32 analog playing cards present the utopias, each with an input expert podcast integrated via QR code, as well as pro and con argumentation aids. Regardless of whether you play "Lieberté" in pairs or eight - so that we think big, there is a draw: Chance decides whether one debates pro or con for the utopias. The concept is ideally suited for group work in schools, but also in other educational institutions and workshop situations. A complete game manual can also be found on our website.
Currently, the second edition (bilingual) Lieberté on the topic of "Sustainable Future Utopias" is already being created in cooperation with the Franco-German Youth Office. Our goal is to give Lieberté workshops in educational institutions ourselves and to actively engage in political education of young people. Liebertét you!
Business location: Passau
We offer expertise in:
- Creative processes
- Producing podcasts
- sense for topics and research
- (sustainable) political education
...and look forward to exchange about:
- Marketing for (media) companies
- Utopias for a more sustainable, just world of tomorrow
Relation to the University of Passau:
We developed our idea and the first edition in the context of the 5-Euro-Business-Competition.
Feel free to contact us via:
lieberte.kartenspiel@gmail.com|https://www.lieberte-kartenspiel.de/ |instagram.com/lieberte_kartenspiel
Hot water for a cool planet!
Our idea:
Our product combines the advantages of heat pump technology with the sustainability of solar power in a size that makes sense for private households. This new and innovative combination makes our hot water boiler fully functional without connection to the public power grid and only requires a single photovoltaic module for power supply. Hereby we create a possibility to provide hot water energy efficient and CO2 neutral and theoretically everywhere in the world.
Business location: Mainz und Ulm (Oberholzheim)
We offer exptertise in:
- Product development of sustainable technology
- Prototyping
- Building and scaling start-ups
...and look forward to exchanges about:
- Projects in developing and emerging countries
- Efficient storage of solar power
Relation to the University of Passau:
Our startup idea came from working in decentralized electrification. At that time, there were already many devices and applications that could be operated directly with direct current from a PV system. However, there was still a lack of a boiler that was as efficient as possible - this became our mission!
The connection to the University of Passau came from the collaboration with the University of Ulm in the area of start-ups - collaboration is a win-win for everyone, so we are happy to be part of the Passau ecosystem :)
Feel free to contact us via:
https://de.nexol-ag.net/ | info@nexol-ag.com |Instagram
go green go wild
Our idea:
Who has actually thought about the carbon footprint of a vibrator? Or that your favorite dildo might contain substances that are harmful to your health? Our surveys have shown: Not many. That's why we decided to launch Passion Fruit. Passion Fruit is a marketplace for regional, fair and body-friendly sex toys. At the same time, we provide detailed information on our website about sustainability and health in relation to sex toys.
Business location: Passau
We offer expertise in:
- Alternatives materials for sex toys
- Harmful materials
- Education about sexuality
- Empowerment
...and look forward to sharing about:
- (social media) marketing
- Customer acquisition
- IT/Online store operation
- Sustainability
- Health
Relation to the University of Passau:
We met in the Sustainability and Business Ethics module and worked out the idea together.
Feel free to contact us via:
https://www.passionfruit-onlineshop.de | https://www.facebook.com/passionfruit.onlineshop |https://www.instagram.com/passionfruit_onlineshop/ |kontakt@passionfruit-onlineshop.de
Recyda: International
Recyclability digitized
Our idea:
Recyda is a start-up that develops software solutions to promote the Circular Economy. We are currently developing a software tool to assess the country-specific recyclability of packaging in the consumer goods / FMCG sector. In doing so, we are working with several market leaders in the industry to align our solution with the challenges companies face. Our team aims to drive the digitalization of the industry - for a sustainable packaging world.
Business location: Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
We offer expertise in:
- Sustainability of packaging (esp. country-specific recyclability).
- International data research
- Software as a Service solutions
- Leadership of international teams (remote)
- B2B sales
...and look forward to exchanging ideas about:
- Integrating sustainability into the business and pricing model
- B2B Marketing
- Data exchange in the supply chain
- Trends in the field of sustainability of packaging
Relation to the University of Passau:
One of the 3 founders of Recyda is a Uni Passau alumna and has completed her Master in International Cultural and Business Studies. Recyda also presented at the Community Night on 12/16/2020 on Intercultural Entrepreneurship.
Feel free to contact us via:
info@recyda.com | www.recyda.com | linkedin.com/company/recyda | instagram.com/recyda_gmbh
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