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#kickstart2025: With a financial boost towards a start-up

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 development of ideas and prototypes. The KICKSTART teams have six months to develop their idea into an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) or prototype. Introducing: Test system for cassette filter systems for cleaning wastewater in relief structures - FilTex. [more]

published: 02.12.2025

#kickstart2024: With a financial boost towards founding a company

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. We present: Development of a modular mobile station for the identification of foreign water sources through short-term use - "FremdWa". [more]

published: 21.07.2025

#kickstart2024 – Introducing: SOK-Tech – the dishwasher that empties itself!

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 development of ideas and prototypes. The KICKSTART teams have six months to develop their idea into a prototype. In what is now our seventh episode, we present the "SOK-Tech" team today. [more]

published: 02.04.2024

#kickstart2023 – Introducing: “Kat-Energy” – energy from micropollutants

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 development of ideas and prototypes. The KICKSTART teams have six months to develop their idea into an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) or prototype. Today, in our sixth episode, we present the "Kat-Energy" team. [more]

published: 11.12.2023

#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

Hofer startup SmartZavod receives EXIST founder grant

Oleksii Solntsev and Anton Yakhno are master's graduates in mechanical engineering and founders of the startups SmartZavod. Together with Eugenia Solntseva, they have been working on the development of a multifunctional 3D printer for a year. They have now received funding of 125,000 euros for their project. [more]

published: 21.10.2022