university & business

New Start-up hub: Upper Franconian universities are the region’s start-up engines

Promoting committed students with an interest in start-ups, qualifying them for entrepreneurship and innovation and thus enriching the regional start-up ecosystem - this is what the start-up hub Upper Franconia - GO! It will be launched in November 2023 at the Universities of Bamberg and Bayreuth and the Universities of Applied Sciences in Coburg and Hof. [more]

published: 15.11.2023

#kickstart2023 – We introduce: Biometh – methanation, biogas, biomethane, reactor

With KICKSTART, Hof University of Applied Sciences has launched a funding program that starts at a very early stage of a potential start-up - with the ideas or prototype development. The KICKSTART teams have six months to develop their idea into an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) or prototype. In our third episode today, we introduce the team "Biometh". [more]

published: 10.10.2023

#kickstart2023 – We present: Amelie Plants – sustainable balcony planters

With KICKSTART, Hof University of Applied Sciences has launched a funding program that starts at a very early stage of a potential start-up - with the ideas or prototype development. The KICKSTART teams have six months to develop their idea into a prototype. In the second episode, we present "Amelie Plants - sustainable balcony planters" today. [more]

published: 24.09.2023

#kickstart2023 – With a financial boost towards start-up

With KICKSTART, Hof University of Applied Sciences has launched a funding program that starts at a very early stage of a possible start-up - more precisely: with the ideas or prototype development. The KICKSTART teams have six months to develop their idea into a prototype. We present the teams in loose succession. [more]

published: 13.09.2023

Crowdfunding started: Student café “Zur Auszeit” in the starting blocks!

A real student café is to be opened for the first time directly on Hof's Karolinenstraße in the fall. The Kulturdrang e.V. association founded at Hof University of Applied Sciences has now launched a crowdfunding campaign for this purpose in cooperation with VR Bank Bayreuth-Hof and is hoping for as much support as possible. The goal is to create a lively meeting place in the heart of the city for all students, pupils and the young at heart. [more]

published: 05.07.2023

Practical project: Students develop solutions to problems for digital megatrends

With the start of the winter semester 2022/2023, lecturers Prof. Dr. Günter Hilmer, Prof. Dr. Christine Brautsch and Tina Wiegand welcomed a total of 45 students and eight companies to the digital startup center Einstein1 as part of a practical project for the Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Digital Business Management degree programs. [more]

published: 27.10.2022