Partner & Networks

An important contact and supporting pillar for the permanent, sustainable implementation of the "Social Impact Campus" at our university is the presidium as a management body under the leadership of the university president, Prof. Dr. Bauer-Wabnegg. Therefore, the Foundation Service is increasingly seeking an exchange with this body, but also with other university bodies of the administration, in order to achieve the objectives set out in the Agreement on Objectives and Performance (ZLV) for the realization of entrepreneurship as a competence for action, implementation and methodology. 

University President Bauer-Wabnegg considers the timing for the implementation of our EXIST-funded project "Social Impact Campus" to be ideal. In addition to the preparatory work carried out by the university and the high and increasing demand of many students for start-up support, the "Social Impact Campus" meets in his view, meets the zeitgeist of young people right now. The topics of sustainable management, climate change, scarce resources and other ecological and social challenges are more present in their minds than ever before. The university wants to support them in their mission with an innovative start-up culture and a socially oriented start-up service.

Press release EXIST-Funding 

In order to lend institutional emphasis to this endeavor, at the end of 2020 a representative for start-ups and entrepreneurship was established at the University of Erfurt in the person of Prof. Dr. Heike Grimm.

Press release Founding Commissioner Prof. Dr. Heike Grimm

For the comprehensive anchoring of our vision of a "Social Impact Campus" in all faculties and scientific institutions, the start-up service is looking for professors but also academic staff members who would like to become "Start-Up Ambassadors" of their faculty, their chair or their respective institution. Areas of activity of start-up ambassadors can be, for example:

• Implementation of short inputs on the offers of the start-up service as well as appropriate course-related content blocks on the topic of "start-up" and "Starting up from university" in their own teaching 
• Participation and inputs at high-profile events of the "Social Impact Campus" (e.g. in the jury of the start-up idea competition) 
• Forwarding of event announcements of the start-up service in the context of courses
• Taking over subject-related mentorships for people interested in founding a company at the university (e.g. EXIST start-up scholarship)
• Any other support to implement the contents of the "Social Impact Campus" at your faculty or institution.

If you are interested in the role of a "Start-up Ambassador" at your university institution, please feel free to contact us, to discuss possible fields of activity.

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The Founders Service of the University of Erfurt would like to cooperate more with faculty and departmental councils in order to include faculty and departmental concerns in its offers and to find supporters for the implementation of (social) entrepreneurship in these bodies.

To the student councils 

The Student Council, as a body representing all students at the University of Erfurt, has already created an important interface by electing a person responsible for the "Start-up Service" area in order to jointly develop suitable formats for the main addressees of the start-up service and to enter into a sustainable exchange about the needs of the students. in this area.

Link to Student Council

As a mentor university of the EXIST-Potentiale-Project at the University of Erfurt and especially with regard to research transfer and support in implementing of best-practice university-related start-up efforts, Leuphana University Lüneburg is a competent contact for us. The university, which is experienced in start-ups, is actively supporting the implementation of the sustainability concept and the institutional anchoring of the start-up support at the University of Erfurt. 

Link to Partner