Join our community

Born Global Startup Community

People from all over the world study and work at our universities. The spin-offs or startups from our universities, are mostly knowledge and research-based and address international markets very quickly. We support these „Born Globals“ and give their topics a forum with a community event, the yearly Born Global Startup Festival and a community of like-minded entrepreneurs. 

Join the community as

1. Startup or founding team

You are a startup or a team that is on its way to build a company? Benefit from our experienced support team with diverse backgrounds in our startup support and knowledge and technology transfer offices.

Your advantages:

  • Benefit from the access to qualification offers, office space to further develop your business in our startup center (for founding teams) or in co-working spaces and technology centers nearby (for startups).
  • Identify potential customers and investors in our region or our international networks. Our universities serve as door openers and platforms to connect. 
  • Get access to more than 50 mentors, trainers, coaches, investors and networking partners. Our digital platforms and events promote your founding team or startup internationally.
     

2. Student or researcher


As a student or researcher you can access the community to talk to like-minded people, identify role models and get personal support:

  • idea check and get feedback from other founding teams
  • ask experts how they deal with IP issues
  • identify qualification offers for starting a business
  • find co-founders
     

3. Startup supporter

Are you an investor, corporate or institution that supports founding teams?

  • Get an introduction to the local startup and innovation ecosystem reflecting the different research strengths of the universities.
  • You can benefit from trans-regional access to mainly deep tech startups that are spin-outs from universities or local tech companies. 
  • University startups are often research and thus patent-based and are show a higher survival rate.
  • Your professional experience and passion to support founding teams and startups is highly welcome. Just contact one of our local offices.

 

 

Unsere Community Events

2025-17-06 | 16:30–22:00
Deadline: 2025-15-06

Born Global Startup FestivaL 2025: Empowering Internationals to Create Startups in Germany

JoinWorkshop | Networking | Event/Festival | Diskussion
Are you an international student, researcher, or graduate interested in starting your own business or working as a freelancer in Germany? Looking for inspiration, funding opportunities, or ways to grow your professional network? Then don’t miss the Born Global Startup Festival 2025 — a dynamic event designed to support internationals from all backgrounds as they take their first steps into Germany’s startup world
SMILE I Leipzig University I International Startup Campus
Präsenz: Leipzig
EN

Join our Born Global Community

Any questions? Just ask.

Ede Möser
University of Jena
+49 3641 9 402123

Ede Möser works as a consultant in the start-up service of the University of Jena and is responsible for various event and qualification formats as well as workshops…

+49 3641 9 402123