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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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

Start-up teams from the University of Bonn win innovation camp

At the Growth Alliance's Idea Camp, the start-up teams from the University of Bonn impressed the judges and took home all three prizes. They had developed their ideas in advance with the help of start-up consultants from the Transfer Center enaCom and in seminars at the University of Bonn's Institute for Entrepreneurship, among others. The Idea Camp promotes innovative solutions for the agriculture and food sectors.

“Start-up Transfer.NRW” Funding for Smart AI Assistant

Led by economist Dr. Jan Bergerhoff and computer scientist Adolfo Santamónica, the Heinzel AI project at the University of Bonn is developing an AI-powered “little helper” (“Heinzelmännchen” in German) for businesses. The smart AI assistance that it provides is designed to help firms familiarize a talking AI with their company-specific data, thus enabling it to make applications, invoices and forms much easier to process, for example. The Heinzel AI project has been awarded nearly €300,000 in “Start-up Transfer.NRW” funding from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the European Union.

Your big chance in the 2025 Ideas Competition

Does your idea have the potential to change our society and, ideally, solve a pressing problem? Then apply to this year's ideas competition organized by the Transfer Center enaCom at the University of Bonn! Here you have the chance to present and develop your idea further, with the aim of turning it into reality. On top of that, there is prize money of €1,000 up for grabs. You can submit your idea outline until November 10, 2025.