Born Global Startup Festival Week 2024

New home city, new business? 

→ At StadtLab, Löbderstraße 6, 07743 Jena

Target audience: International students interested in founding and international founders.

The Preschool is a three-day event for international founders in Jena, organised by Werkhaus Inklusion and Startup Migrants, in cooperation with the International Startup Campus and as part of the Born Global Startup Festival Week. Together with others, you will immerse yourself in the world of entrepreneurship and develop and test yourself and your startup idea. 

Find out more about Werkhaus: www.werkhausinklusion.de 

Planned Program for Preschool in Jena 

Friday 24th May
3:30 p.m. Warm Up & Networking
4:30 p.m. Local startup support ecosystem
5:00 p.m. Local Startup programs to join aker the Preschool
6:00 p.m. Workshop

Saturday  25th May
10:00 a.m. Coffee & Workshops
11:30 a.m. Founders Journey 
1:00 p.m. Workshop

Sunday 26th May
10:00 a.m. Workshop
11:30 a.m. Legal forms for founding in Germany
1:00 p.m. Workshops
3:00 p.m. Final Pitch

Information and registration for Preschool in Jena / May 24th-26th. 

We are delighted to invite you to our upcoming "Creative Career Development" workshop, hosted by China KooP and the International Startup Campus as part of the Born Global Startup Festival. The workshop is designed for Chinese students keen on discovering innovative career paths and entrepreneurial opportunities, particularly in Central Germany.

Workshop Details:
Time: 13-15:30

Location: Technologie- und Innovationspark Jena, Moritz-von-Rohr-Str. 1a

Language: EN/GER (Chinese if needed)

Workshop Overview:
The workshop is crafted to give you a space for idea exchange and assist you in founding and developing a creative career path - a career with a strong focus on the opportunities available in Central Germany and collaborative potentials with China. 

The workshop features an engaging session and will focus on how to implement your unique ideas in Germany through cooperation with China. Aim is to analyze ideas you have created during your (PhD) studies that could be formed to a project or to identify gaps in the market and identify Chinese products and innovations that could be successful in Germany and vice versa. An essential component of our workshop is the introduction to the Design Thinking process, a powerful tool for innovation. This user-centric approach begins with empathizing with user needs and challenges, then clearly defining the problem. From there, you will learn to ideate creative solutions, develop prototypes, and test these solutions to refine them into viable products. This structured process not only enhances creative problem-solving skills but also aims to transform abstract ideas into actionable and marketable products, providing a practical framework for initiating successful careers in academia or a company or event build your own startup.

Information and registration

Open Panel & Workshop

Time: 15:30-18:00

Location: Technologie- und Innovationspark Jena, Moritz-von-Rohr-Str. 1a

Language: English

Target group: Internationals interested in promoting their own projects and founding a startup as a career option

Impulses & discussion

• How makeathons stimulate an entrepreneurial mindset - Intro to challenges and ideas from the EC2U Makeathon
• Example: How to participate in future makeathons
• Impulse from a startup - insights and learnings on their path
• Networking

Information and registration for Creative Career Options in Jena / May 27th.

→ Plagwitzer Markthalle, Markranstädter Str. 8 04229 Leipzig

AGENDA

4:30 PM
Check-In & Registration

5:00 PM
Opening and greetings
Prof. Dr. Utz Dornberger (Director of the SEPT Competence Center), Prof. Dr. Mathias Middell (Vice-Rector for Campus Development, Leipzig University)

5:10 PM
Inspirational talks & panel discussion
with international founders: Takahashi Akiko (Akiko Vegan Ice cream), Dr. Luis Bernal (Realists Training Technologies), Dr. med. Dilan Sinem Sert (SEDIDOC)

6:00 PM
PARALLEL INFO-SESSIONS

Session 1: Administrative & legal aspects for creating a business or becoming solo-entrepreneurs in Germany
Johannes Göckeritz & Christian Hauke (Leipzig University)

Session 2: Mastering funding: Public programs and hacks for successful applications
Christian Scheffler (SMILE) & Elisa Türpe (SMILE, EXIST-Women)

Session 3: From concept to creation: Prototyping opportunities in Leipzig
Markus Maier (Gründungsküche - SMILE), Dr. Alireza Ansari (Process Living Lab - iN4iN), Mehrab Moradi Nasrabadi (Makerspace - Startbahn 13)

7:00 PM
Official launch of the "Co-founder platform"

7:20 PM
International Innovators Award ceremony
Category: International Startup Team from Asia & Africa, Category: Successful Startup in Central Germany

7:45-11:00 PM
Networking & summer party (music, free food & drinks), Musical Performance

Information and registration for Empowering Internationals to Create Startups in Germany in Leipzig / May 28th.

MACHN Festival (Leipzig) - For Tech, Business & Art

→ At Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig

This festival celebrates machine innovation and hardware networking, offering unique insights into the future of tech-driven enterprises.

Join us at our booth at MACHN Festival and live up to an exciting meetup with startups from Central Germany.

For more Info

Information for the MACHN Festival / May 29-30th. 

We have a limited amount of tickets.

Networking with Japanese Corporates & Startups

Connect with Japanese corporates and present your innovations to an international audience. Networking and matching sessions will be held in English.

Goals:

• Strategic Partnerships: Network with decision-makers from Japanese companies seeking new technologies and ideas. 
• Discover collaboration opportunities.
• Market Information: Gain insights into Japanese market trends to refine your strategies. 
• Engage in valuable conversations.
• Pitch Opportunity: 5-minute pitch presentations and individual matchmaking.

Your participation:

Please send us a brief expression of interest along with a letter of motivation or some background information about your experience working with Japanese companies. 

If you would like to pitch, kindly include a pitch deck. 

The sooner we receive these, the better we can facilitate meaningful discussions.