Start a Business at Uni Bonn

Do you want to put your idea into operation and become self-employed? Whether you have a concrete idea for a start-up or you are completely new to the start-up and entrepreneurship scene, the Transfer Center is the right place to be. We help University of Bonn students, researchers, employees and alumni to turn their ideas into successful start-ups.

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Zwei Gründer entwickeln Ideen an einer Tafel.

Idea Check

From the first flash of inspiration, we help you to develop your idea and prepare for the next necessary steps.

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Consulting and Coaching

We provide personal individualized consulting on the way to start a business, such as applying for funding.

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Start-Up Stories

Our start-up stories let you read about relevant and interesting areas in the start-up scene and inspiring stories of our founders.

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Start-ups

Our start-ups come from a variety of areas and range from newly funded projects to upcoming enterprises.

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Start-up Events

We offer qualification workshops and networking events for exchanging information with other founders.

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Co-Working

Our co-working spaces are places where knowledge transfer and entrepreneurship are lived and made practically possible.

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Which services does the Transfer Center enaCom
offer to start-ups?

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Information

We provide easily understandable, fun-filled and relevant information about start-ups, both current affairs and sound background information.

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Support

We provide personal, individualized consulting. We support high-tech or social projects, and your idea will be handled strictly confidential. We speak both languages, the language of research and the language of business. Contact us for any important or less important questions you have about your start-up.

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Networking

Our co-working space offers start-up teams the opportunity to exchange information among each other. And our extensive network in the start-up scene offers a wide range of support from Digital Hub Region Bonn AG, the Bonn/Rhein-Sieg Chamber of Industry and Commerce, City of Bonn and many other partners.

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Our Funding

The University of Bonn will receive around €1.4 million in start-up financing over the next four years to expand and consolidate its services, consulting and networking. enaCom was one of the award winners in the EXIST “Raising Potential” competition organized by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi).

Funding lines and competitions

Check out our overview of important start-up competitions and funding opportunities. Here you will find information about application deadlines, competition's foci and eligibilities.

Website start-up funding and competitions (in German)

News

Smart Monitoring for People with Epilepsy

The PearNet project is developing special wearables—body-worn electronic devices—that give epilepsy patients advance warning of seizures and monitor and record them when they happen. The brainchild of researchers from the University Hospital Bonn and University of Bonn, it has now secured some €2.7 million in funding over three years via the GO-Bio next program run by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR). The money will go toward making further preparations for spinning off the project so that its set of wearables can be launched on the biotechnology market.

Virtual AI Interviewer for Healthcare Sector

A team of researchers from the University of Bonn and University Hospital Bonn (UKB) is developing a realistic-looking avatar that behaves like a human. This AI dialogue system is intended to be used as a virtual interviewer in various sectors such as healthcare. The project “FeelForge – Creating interactive environments for empathetic human-AI communication,” led by Dr. Tobiasz Kaduk, has now received a prototyping grant and is preparing the avatar for commercialization. The grants with funding of up to €20,000 are awarded regularly by the Transfer Center enaCom. Proposals for funding starting in fall 2026 can be submitted until July 20, 2026.

For flora and fauna: gArtenreich promotes biodiversity

The start-up gArtenreich GmbH designs gardens and urban green spaces intended to support and promote local biodiversity. The idea came to the two founders, Anthony Janssen and Paul Brentrup, while they were studying agricultural sciences, nature conservation, and landscape ecology at the University of Bonn. Since its founding in 2025, gArtenreich has offered customized consulting and planning services for gardens and ecological land use areas designed to maintain nature conservation and biodiversity in these green spaces. In this interview, co-founder Paul Brentrup shares what motivated him to start the company and the experiences he has gained along the way.