IDEAS - INNOVATION - IMPACT
Central service unit for start-ups, innovation and technology transfer
enaCom Start-up Open Day 2026
The Transfer Center enaCom opens its doors on July 7th
Become a founder with EXIST Women!
Support for women on the way to their own start-up
Start-up Summer School 2026
August 10 - 14: Start your own business in five days
IDEAS - INNOVATION - IMPACT
enaCom Start-up Open Day 2026
Become a founder with EXIST Women!
Start-up Summer School 2026

Transfer Center enaCom

We see ourselves as an intermediary, translator and catalyst between science and stakeholders outside the scientific community. Our work focuses on making research results available for the benefits of society. enaCom is the central point of contact for all matters relating to University knowledge and technology transfer – for University of Bonn members and everyone else being interested to co-operate with us.

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News
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.
The path to market readiness: How do start-ups test their products?
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.
Start-up Week 2026: Bonn/Rhein-Sieg Aims to Become the Number One Start-up Region
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. 
Everything you need for your idea
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.
Upcoming Events
Vorteile des Betrieblichen Gesundheitsmanagements
Online
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement ermöglicht Mitarbeitergewinnung und -bindung und bietet so Benefits, die wirklich wirken und sowohl Unternehmen als auch ...
Patentrecht Grundlagen
Online
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Technische Erfindungen sind in der Wissenschaft von großer Bedeutung. Daher ist ein gesetzlicher Schutz vor der unrechtmäßigen Nutzung durch Dritte in Form ...
LinkedIn for Start-ups
Online
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
If you are working on a start-up with a product or service aimed at other companies rather than private customers, LinkedIn can be a valuable channel to reach ...
Generative AI & Prompting: Explore the Potential of Your Ideas
Transfer Center enaCom, ...
10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
In this workshop, you will learn how to work effectively with generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. The focus is on prompting techniques and on using AI as a ...

Transfer Strategy

The University of Bonn has adopted a transfer strategy that describes the central aspects and objectives of knowledge and technology transfer. It serves as an orientation for a common understanding of transfer that promotes the exchange between science and society, which takes place at different levels and by different means. With its Excellence Strategy, the University of Bonn emphasizes its impact orientation and would like to systematically expand this further.

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Start-up

From the initial check to individual coaching, we help University members to turn ideas into successful start-ups.

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Inventions and Patents

Patents protect research results and facilitate commercialization. enaCom helps to identify, protect, market and commercialize inventions.

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Business and Society

enaCom enables to collaborate successfully: science, together with business and society, we take responsibility for innovations.

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Funding Opportunities

enaCom helps to select and submit applications for public funding programs focused on different start-up or transfer projects.

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Networking

enaCom is partner in different networks focusing on knowledge transfer to promote the exchange of science with all external stakeholders.

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Qualification

enaCom offers a variety of events on soft skills, professional skills and networking with transfer partners.

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Communion

enaCom is committed to promoting transfer of knowledge and technology. We combine different transfer activities from all research areas of the University. We document successful transfer formats and give them visibility. We present best practices from within the University and act as a showcase for the most exciting transfer projects to the outside world.

Communication

enaCom informs about innovative research results close to application. We talk about science offering meet-ups for different stakeholders in business and society. As a central point of contact and gateway for co-operation, we connect all stakeholders inside and outside the University.

Commitment

enaCom is committed to all stakeholders interested in knowledge exchange; researchers and students, as well as practitioners and citizens outside the academic community. Dialogue promotes a broad, research-based transfer of knowledge. We therefore speak both languages, the language of academics and the language of professionals.

Companion

enaCom provides individual consulting and assistance to support the multidimensional transfer activities of the University. We always help existing and future partners inside and outside the University and provide unbureaucratic, efficient service.

Commercialisation

enaCom handles all matters concerning utilization of the excellent research results achieved by the University. We provide information on the options available for protecting intellectual property rights and how to bring inventions to start-up.

Contact

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Sandra Speer

Head of Section

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Brühler Straße 7

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Dennis Daseking

Deputy Head of Section

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Brühler Str. 7

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Claudia Morales

Office Manager

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Brühler Straße 7

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