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🌟 Empowering Female Academic Entrepreneurship: A Path to Innovation and Progress 🌟 In today’s dynamic innovation landscape, empowering female academics to launch and scale startups isn’t just beneficial—it’s essential. Female-founded ventures bring diverse perspectives, new ideas, and unique approaches to problem-solving. Yet, women remain underrepresented, particularly in academic institutions. While entrepreneurship is expanding in Switzerland, there’s still work to do: only 17% of startups and spin-offs at Swiss universities and institutions were founded by women, as noted in the FEM REPORT 2023. This underscores the need for enhanced support structures, resources, and networks to level the playing field for female academic entrepreneurs. This is where initiatives like FemSpin make a powerful impact. In 2021, leading Swiss universities united to form a consortium dedicated to fostering female academic entrepreneurship. The FemSpin has focused on building support networks, sharing expertise, and spotlighting role models—all tailored to empower female founders. Now, as FemSpin concludes its first phase, we’re celebrating its achievements, reflecting on its impact, and planning bold next steps. Keep watching this space! Supporting female-led startups is about more than helping individual women; it’s about cultivating an inclusive and thriving innovation ecosystem that benefits all of society. Let’s champion this change, support female founders, and help build a balanced, prosperous future for entrepreneurship in Switzerland and beyond! https://femspin.ch/ #FemaleEntrepreneurship #Innovation #FemSpin #AcademicEntrepreneurship #Switzerland

Congratulations Jessica Droujko from Riverkin!!

Thank you Open Innovation in Life Sciences for having feminno at your yearly conference. That way we learnt about the latest addition to below list: Dr. Joyce Kao, EMBA with Digital Research Academy

A lot has happened since we started with feminno in 2018. We are proud that we could support these startups in their journey by providing training, network, mentors and a #femalefounder community. Today, we celebrate the following feminno alumnae: Anjali Raja Beharelle with Collabree Ltd Barbara Horvath with Inveel Burcu Demiray with WiseLearn Carolina Paganini with Checktor Biosciences Estelle Clerc with CellX Biosolutions Janet Michel with One Plant Sustainables Jessica Droujko with Riverkin Josefine Tratwal, PhD with MiniMarrow Malwina Kowalska with plantipolis Patrycja Kucharczyk with Treeless Pack Sarah Meissner with myflow by MindMetrix AG Sonia Meller with Digit Soil Stephanie Huwiler with Herencia Zina Yudina with BABYLAT And more startup in the making - so stay tuned and check in regularly at https://lnkd.in/eNfugFYV A big thank you to the initiators of the program Melanie Paschke and Manuela Dahinden, the trainers Isabelle Siegrist Dr. Andrea Degen Andrea Haag Michael Kropac Dr. Verena Lütschg Gaby Rockmann Carl Emerson Caroline Linda Bucher, MA and Carole Clair (Willi)

We are so proud of you Patrycja Kucharczyk!!

More news about Jessica Droujko and her start-up Riverkin. She has been features in the current issue of the Globe magazine from ETH Zürich. Congrats!! Proud to see that you are getting a lot of traction and make huge progress.

🚀 feminno round 8 has been launched! 🚀 We started last week with 22 participants and dived into the career retreat concentrating on #careerpreparedness #skills #values #serendipity #linkedin #selfbranding #networking #resources We were guided by Caroline Linda Bucher, MA (be.learn.become) through a #designyourlife workshop, heard Sandra Läderach Biaggi speaking about #careerengagement and #happenstance, and met Nina Wolfrum, PhD introducing us to the science behind #confidence. Lots of insights provided the two panel discussions with women in industry and female founders. Bettina Baumann from Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Samantha Paoletti from CSEM Aksana Labokha from Rejuversen Dr. Greta Vastakaite from PwC Switzerland Carolina Paganini from Checktor Biosciences Marianna Fighera from Beyond Scroll SA Lucie Jandet from Visienco Claudia Scheckel from Oncobit AG A big thank you to all the speakers and panelists. We highly appreciate your support and your mentoring of the next generation founders!! We also are grateful to our sponsors Roche, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Rejuversen and CSEM. Without them we could not run the feminno program! Katrin Arnold Peter Collmer Mihaela Falub Melanie Paschke Silvie Cuperus

Any founders and subject matter expert in our feminno community ready to act as a mentor? Dr. Ulrike Thull

Congratulations to Treeless Pack and our feminno alumna Patrycja Kucharczyk. Well deserved!

The official deadline it apply is over but we can accommodate a few more interested researchers