At the #Hack4Surgery hackathon, 12 teams developed solutions for real-life challenges in the emergency room. The event took place on 6 June 2025 at the Bonn Surgical Technology Center (BOSTER) of the University Hospital Bonn (UKB). With the help of machine learning methods and based on real, anonymised patient data, around 35 students and doctoral students from the University of Bonn developed predictive models to support doctors in making key decisions in everyday clinical practice. The first #Hack4Surgery was organised by BOSTER together with the Transfer Center enaCom and the Bonn-Aachen Institute for Information Technology (b-it).

The start-up project “Bone2Gene” received an award in the category “early-stage innovation” at the life-science technologies event BioVaria, that took place in April in Munich. Dr. Behnam Javanmardi pitched their business idea and technology which focuses on using artificial intelligence (AI) to make genetic bone conditions easier to spot. He develops this AI technology together with Prof. Dr. Peter Krawitz – both from the Institute of Genomic Statistics and Bioinformatics at the University Hospital Bonn – and their team. The project is currently funded by a GO-Bio initial grant to get its product ready for market launch. 

"Women's networks provide that special support and energy for prospective female founders," said Özlem Doger-Herter, founder and coach, at the closing ceremony for the first cohort of the EXIST Women program from the Transfer Center enaCom. At the event in the DIGITALHUB, the participants from the University of Bonn looked back together on a successful year. The program offered the necessary know-how, workspaces, mentors and networking opportunities to prepare for self-employment or a start-up. EXIST Women is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection and will enter the next round in 2025: applications can be submitted by 5 January 2025*!

Current market trends, competitive analyses or insights into growth opportunities - if you want to find out about markets now, you can use the IBISWorld database This platform offers a wide range of market analyses and industry reports from over 700 industries worldwide. The Transfer Centre enaCom is providing all students, researchers and employees of the University of Bonn with free access to the IBISWorld market database from October to December 2024.

Do you have an innovative idea that ideally solves a problem of our society? Would you like to present this idea and develop it further? Then apply for the ideas competition of the Transfer Center enaCom at the University of Bonn! In addition to numerous offers of support, you have the chance to win 1000 euros for your idea. You can submit your idea sketch until 10 November 2024.

“Femtec is a very enriching experience,” says Patricia (student MSc Mathematics), who has been going through the career-building programme since March and has just started the “Innovation Lab” project with Deutsche Telekom. The FEMTEC programme offers STEM students valuable networks in business and science and thus attractive career opportunities. Here they are prepared for their future careers and potential leadership roles. The FEMTEC programme starts twice a year and opens the next application round from October 14 to November 3, 2024. All female students in a STEM master's program are invited to apply!

Do you have an innovative idea and are looking for co-founders for your start-up? Or do you feel the founding spirit but are still looking for a project to get involved in? On the FoundFactory platform, idea providers and people interested in founding a company are matched precisely. Starting in July, the Transfer Center enaCom is offering all members of the University of Bonn free access to FoundFactory services for one year. As a special feature not only professional interests but also personal characteristics are taken into account, so you can be sure to find your dream team for a successful start-up.

The Transfer Center enaCom assists scientists with its specific start-up support services. Among other things, the "Research2UseCase-Canvas" helps to bridge the gap between research projects and potential use cases. For this continuous focus on sciencepreneurship, i.e. the start-up spirit in science and research, the Transfer Center has once again been awarded the "Young Entrepreneurs in Science Campus" certificate.