Learn the necessary steps from idea to start-up in just one week! At the Start-up Summer School organized by the Transfer Center enaCom and the Start-up-Manufaktur at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (H-BRS), experts will show you the tools you need to start your own business. All students, scientists, alumni, and employees of the University of Bonn and H-BRS are welcome to participate, regardless of their field of study. The Summer School will take place from August 11 to 15 in Bonn. Anyone can register, with or without their own idea.

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).

Encouraging scientists to become sciencepreneurs and connecting research with entrepreneurship — this is the mission of the Transfer Center enaCom at the University of Bonn. This year, the university has once again been recognized with the title “Young Entrepreneurs in Science Campus.” The certificate is awarded by the Falling Walls Foundation’s Young Entrepreneurs in Science (YES) initiative to academic partner institutions that provide sustained support for entrepreneurship.

Doing good and earning money at the same time? How social or sustainable start-ups – known as impact start-ups or public benefit corporations – can emerge, was the topic of the networking event “Future Founders – Networking for a Better Future.” The event took place in May at DIGITALHUB and marked the launch of the new impact start-up cluster SoNaR, a joint project of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, the University of Bonn, and Alanus University.

The Bonn-based start-up Pheno-Inspect GmbH has won first prize in the Euregional Start-up Pitch competition. Founder Dr. Philipp Lottes and his team offer an AI-supported platform for agriculture, beating five other start-ups from Germany and the Netherlands. The prize is worth €3,000 and was awarded by the guests at the 19th Private Equity Conference NRW. Pheno-Inspect was developed from research conducted by Dr. Philipp Lottes and Prof. Dr. Cyrill Stachniss at the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation and the PhenoRob Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bonn.

Founders from the University of Bonn have long appreciated the coworking space at DIGITALHUB.DE. It has now received two awards at the German Coworking Prize 2025, in the categories “Space of the Year” and “Most Innovative Space.” The Hub team accepted the awards at the ceremony in Berlin on May 15. The University of Bonn's Transfer Center enaCom cooperates closely with DIGITALHUB and has its own offices opposite the main train station. The university also allows people interested in starting a business to use coworking spaces at DIGITALHUB.

At the German Biotechnology Days (DBT) 2025, the team led by Dr. Marcel Hövels and Dr. André Neff from the University of Bonn was awarded the BioRegions Innovation Award 2025 for their project “Sweethoven Biotech – Health with Enjoyment.” They are one of three winners of the award, which is endowed with 2,000 euros each.

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.