IDEAS - INNOVATION - IMPACT
Central service unit for start-ups, innovation and technology transfer
Prototyping Grant 2026
Apply by July 20 and receive up to €20,000 to develop a prototype based on your research
Femtec is launching the next phase!
Apply now until July 12, 2026 for the career-building program for female STEM students!
Become a founder with exist women!
Support for women on the way to their own start-up
IDEAS - INNOVATION - IMPACT
Prototyping Grant 2026
Femtec is launching the next phase!
Become a founder with exist women!

Transfer Center enaCom

We see ourselves as an intermediary, translator and catalyst between science and stakeholders outside the scientific community. Our work focuses on making research results available for the benefits of society. enaCom is the central point of contact for all matters relating to University knowledge and technology transfer – for University of Bonn members and everyone else being interested to co-operate with us.

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News
Start-up project "ReRetina” honored as by the GeneNovate® entrepreneurship program
The Bonn-based start-up project ReRetina (Eye Clinic, University Hospital Bonn) has won the GeneNovate® Entrepreneurship Program. The award marked the conclusion of the third round of the nationwide program under the National Strategy for Gene- and Cell-Based Therapies (National GCT Strategy) in Munich at the end of June.
University of Bonn Secures Three Proof of Concept Grants
Three University of Bonn researchers have been awarded a Proof of Concept Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). Neuroscientist Professor Dominik Bach, chemist Assistant Professor Ala Bunescu and radiologist Professor Philipp Vollmuth (from the University Hospital Bonn) are each receiving €150,000 over a period of 18 months. This program helps researchers to take findings from their work and turn them into commercial products or services.
Mobility despite power outages: EnergiKaba develops solar charging stations in Cuba
Cuba is suffering from an energy crisis: Widespread power outages are paralyzing the country’s infrastructure. This is where the start-up “EnergiKaba” comes in with its solar-powered charging stations for electric rickshaws. Its goal is to ensure mobility independent of the power grid. With the help of these solar charging stations, rickshaw drivers will be able to continue operating even during power outages—which often last for hours—thereby securing their income and ensuring the transport of people and goods in Cuba. Behind the idea for “EnergiKaba” is exist Women fellow Franca-Noemi Kaba Gómez. In an interview, she explains how the project came about across two continents and how she plans to secure (partial) funding through crowdfunding.
FEMTEC will continue to move forward
FEMTEC, the nationally established career-building programme for female STEM students, will continue and be further developed. For more than 25 years, FEMTEC has supported numerous young women on their path to taking on responsibility, fostering innovation, and assuming leadership roles - and has built a strong network of committed universities, companies, and alumnae. The University of Bonn has been a partner university since 2023 and welcomes the programme’s continuation.
Upcoming Events
Start-up Week Bonn-Rhein-Sieg 2026
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Fünf Tage voller Ideen: Vom 13. bis 17. Juli 2026 werden die Stadt Bonn sowie der Rhein-Sieg-Kreis zum Hotspot für Startups und Zukunftsgestaltung. Die Startup ...
Your Research Has Value – Explore Its Potential With AI
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A workshop offered by Transfer Center enaCom and Bonn Graduate Center. Your research holds potential beyond academia — this workshop helps you discover what ...
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Female Founders Meetup
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Wir laden dich herzlich zum "Female Founders Meetup" ein! Auf diesem einzigartigen Event möchten wir Frauen aus verschiedenen Bereichen zusammenbringen. Du ...

FEMTEC is entering its next round!

Are you a STEM student who wants to play an active role in shaping the future? Can you imagine being a trailblazer for the workplace of tomorrow—a workplace that is more diverse and sustainable? Do you want to look beyond the academic world and gain insights into the business world? Then apply by July 12, 2026 for the career development program for female STEM students!

Transfer Strategy

The University of Bonn has adopted a transfer strategy that describes the central aspects and objectives of knowledge and technology transfer. It serves as an orientation for a common understanding of transfer that promotes the exchange between science and society, which takes place at different levels and by different means. With its Excellence Strategy, the University of Bonn emphasizes its impact orientation and would like to systematically expand this further.

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Start-up

From the initial check to individual coaching, we help University members to turn ideas into successful start-ups.

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Inventions and Patents

Patents protect research results and facilitate commercialization. enaCom helps to identify, protect, market and commercialize inventions.

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Business and Society

enaCom enables to collaborate successfully: science, together with business and society, we take responsibility for innovations.

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Funding Opportunities

enaCom helps to select and submit applications for public funding programs focused on different start-up or transfer projects.

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Networking

enaCom is partner in different networks focusing on knowledge transfer to promote the exchange of science with all external stakeholders.

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Qualification

enaCom offers a variety of events on soft skills, professional skills and networking with transfer partners.

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Communion

enaCom is committed to promoting transfer of knowledge and technology. We combine different transfer activities from all research areas of the University. We document successful transfer formats and give them visibility. We present best practices from within the University and act as a showcase for the most exciting transfer projects to the outside world.

Communication

enaCom informs about innovative research results close to application. We talk about science offering meet-ups for different stakeholders in business and society. As a central point of contact and gateway for co-operation, we connect all stakeholders inside and outside the University.

Commitment

enaCom is committed to all stakeholders interested in knowledge exchange; researchers and students, as well as practitioners and citizens outside the academic community. Dialogue promotes a broad, research-based transfer of knowledge. We therefore speak both languages, the language of academics and the language of professionals.

Companion

enaCom provides individual consulting and assistance to support the multidimensional transfer activities of the University. We always help existing and future partners inside and outside the University and provide unbureaucratic, efficient service.

Commercialisation

enaCom handles all matters concerning utilization of the excellent research results achieved by the University. We provide information on the options available for protecting intellectual property rights and how to bring inventions to start-up.

Contact

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Sandra Speer

Head of Section

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Brühler Straße 7

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Dennis Daseking

Deputy Head of Section

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Brühler Str. 7

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Claudia Morales

Office Manager

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