Only around 20 percent of start-ups in Germany are founded by women or with female participation in the team. The start-up world is still heavily dominated by men. To change this, Claire Siegert and Victoria Arnhold founded "Businettes" in 2019, a startup incubator specifically for women. [more]
published: 18.01.2024
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
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
On the weekend of October 22-23, this year's Entrepreneurship Summit of the Entrepreneurship Foundation, a meeting of people interested in founding companies and startups, took place at Freie Universität Berlin. The Summit is one of the most important startup conventions in Germany. This year, a group of 15 students from Hof University of Applied Sciences took part for the first time. [more]
published: 27.10.2022
Anton Yakhno and Oleksii Solntsev, Master Mechanical Engineering graduates from Hof University of Applied Sciences and founders of the startup Smart Zavod, took second place in the startup competition at the Future Conference in Leipzig. We say congratulations! [more]
published: 30.09.2022
Über den Tellerrand schauen, Inspiration tanken und die regionale Startup-Szene kennenlernen und vernetzen. Das war einer der Leitgedanken der Exkursion einer Gruppe von Studierenden der Hochschule Hof beim Startup myriad an der Uni Bayreuth, die vom Startuplab und dem Digitalen Gründerzentrum Einstein1 organisiert wurde. [more]
published: 28.04.2022
The new technical center with a focus on textile technology and air conditioning at the Münchberg campus and the "MakerSpace" at the Hof campus - both new facilities at Hof University of Applied Sciences can look forward to grants. [more]
published: 10.02.2021