Consulting services for start-ups

Would you like to set up your own company and need some support? Our FAU Start-up Service is the right place to get some great advice. Whether you’re a student, researcher or staff member at FAU, we can help you with everything from setting up your company to developing your business idea.

The Start-Up Service will invite you to cool events about starting your own company with valuable tips and information for your start-up. Come and visit us and make your ideas shine!

As one of the most innovative universities in the world, FAU stands for entrepreneurship and start-ups based on research like no other university. With our advice and programs, we play our part in ensuring that it remains innovative.

The Team

The Start-Up Service team is as diverse as the ideas for start-ups that are created at FAU.

The team has 9 members, all of which have different skills and expertise. This means you always get exactly the advice and support that you need.

Get to know us

What we offer

In addition to general advice about start-ups, we organize regular events and workshops as well as longer programs on the topics of innovation, entrepreneurship and start-ups. Whether you would just like to find out a little more about what’s involved or if you’re right in the middle of setting up a company, we have just the right thing for you.

Regular events

Here you can meet startup experts on a regular basis to exchange tips and information and to network.

The €5 Business is a semester program in which students develop and sell real products with only 5 euros to start with. Practical workshops provide the necessary background knowledge. Participants also receive ECTS credits.

Digital Tech Academy

The Digital Tech Academy combines three programs that convey the methodological knowledge required to make innovative business ideas become reality.

For those seeking to take the first step towards starting a company, Starting Business @FAU is the right place to start. It offers eight online workshops that can be booked according to individual requirements.

The Digital Tech Fellows Program is FAU’s elite program. We are searching for exceptional talents who work together in international and interdisciplinary teams for one semester on their own business idea.

In the Entrepreneurial Innovation Hub, teams from various universities develop forward-looking business ideas using trend analyses supported by AI and develop them for two semesters.

Impact E3

At Impact E3, the focus is on challenges to society and the environment. In conjunction with the FAU Chair of Corporate Sustainability Management and two other universities, we not only convey theoretical knowledge, but include practical elements for participants in the form of workshops and semester programs.

Conventional lectures and seminars provide an introduction to the current state of research on the topic of impact entrepreneurship.

Various events and workshops such as the Impact Start-up Talks or the Sustainability Hackathon are the first step into the scene and enable you to network and get to know other impact entrepreneurs.

During the Impact Creators Program, participants work on their impact ideas for one semester in a team, develop a business and impact model and validate it.

Existency & information about start-ups

Existency is a collaboration between FAU, Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm and Ansbach University of Applied Sciences that has developed various entrepreneurship programs and provided support to start-ups from all over the region during the last 3 years. Further information is available on the project website. It also includes comprehensive information about all aspects of starting a company.

How to contact us

Do you have an idea for a start-up and want to set up a company? Is your research really exciting and are you wondering whether it has potential for a start-up? Would you like to take part in our programs?

Get in touch – we are happy to help.

Contact

Contact

Up-to-date news about start-ups at FAU is available on LinkedIn – see you there!