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.

Rough seas, climate change, and musical interludes: that’s what the performance “Auf Kurs? – A Science Musical Show” offers, created by and starring Dr. Jana Heysel, who has launched her own business with this project. She combines live physics experiments with theater and singing. Until the show is perfected, there will be plenty of rehearsals and feedback from the audience, such as during an open rehearsal at the Transfer Center enaCom: In a test setting, the audience got a sneak peek at the new science musical show, and Dr. Jana Heysel gathered helpful feedback to perfect the show.

Five days full of ideas: From July 13 to 17, 2026, the city of Bonn and the Rhein-Sieg area will become a hotspot for start-ups and building the future. The Start-up Week Bonn/Rhein-Sieg will showcase the region’s innovative strength and the University of Bonn with its Transfer Center enaCom is part of it! Together with other partners, such as the City of Bonn, the Rhein-Sieg District, the Bonn/Rhein-Sieg Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Techniker Krankenkasse, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Sparkasse KölnBonn, Stadtwerke Bonn, Volksbank Köln Bonn, Fraunhofer FIT, and Taktsoft Energy, DIGITALHUB.DE raises awareness, connects, and supports aspiring entrepreneurs, start-ups, investors, and individuals who have not yet had any exposure to the topic of entrepreneurship through various events. 

Join us this summer semester for exciting workshops and events hosted by the Transfer Center enaCom to learn practical methods and tools that will guide you from your initial idea all the way to implementation. Special highlights include the enaCom Start-up Open Day on July 7 and the Start-up Week Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, featuring two main events on July 14. At these events, you’ll have the opportunity to gain new perspectives on your ideas, network, and take away new inspiration for your own projects.

The Cluster of Excellence “Matter and Light for Quantum Computing” (ML4Q) hosted the ML4Q Career & Technology Day 2026 in February. In collaboration with partners from academia and technology transfer, including the Transfer Center enaCom, the event brought together students, early-career researchers, alumni, and representatives from the quantum industry. ML4Q is a joint research consortium of the Universities of Bonn, Cologne, and Aachen, as well as Forschungszentrum Jülich.

This year’s Start-up Spring School was a sell-out: around 30 students took the opportunity to develop their ideas into initial business models in interdisciplinary teams. Over the course of an intensive week, creative and practical concepts emerged, which the participants presented in their final pitches at the end of the week. The Start-up School is offered regularly by the Transfer Center at the University of Bonn and the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences.

The “SxDiagnostics” project from the University of Bonn and the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) prevailed against over 100 competing teams in the start2grow competition and placed in the (shared) 4th to 10th spots. Start2grow is organized nationwide by the Dortmund Economic Development Agency and celebrated its 25th anniversary this year.

The prototyping grants from the University of Bonn's Transfer Center enaCom promote scientific ideas that are to be prepared for practical application. In 2025, a total of eight projects were funded that are developing new solutions to practical challenges. The topics range from AI-supported medical diagnostics and data analysis to biomedical testing systems and therapeutic approaches to digital solutions for improving life cycle assessments.