Join our community
Join the Born Global Startup Community and benefit from the international startup ecosystem.
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.
Join our Born Global Community
Any questions? Just ask.
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 for international students, people interested in founding a company and start-ups. In particular, he is the contact person for the area of the Academy and startup ecosystems, but also provides advice and assistance to those interested in market exploration trips.
Martin Gothe is a consultant, lecturer and mentor with many years of international experience and our contact for startups interested in the Chinese market. He is our representative in Shanghai, conducts market reconnaissance trips and can establish contacts directly on site for startups interested in founding
Tanja Hünniger works in the Transfer and Entrepreneurship Office at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and is responsible for the conception of various event and qualification formats as well as workshops for international students, people interested in founding a company and startups. She is the head of the Academy and provides advice and support to those interested in founding a company.