Shaping a Sustainable Europe (April 2024)

Hey fellows,

In today's world, which is characterized by complex challenges and constant change, one factor remains: resilience.

RESILIENCE IS KEY! 

That's why this year's 16th FORUM UnternehmerTUM focuses on overcoming crises and obstacles, adapting, and emerging stronger from difficult situations.

We will hear first-hand from Jochen Engert about how Flix , a former start-up with over 3,000 employees, is organizing itself. Dr. Heba Aguib will give us insight into how the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt is contributing to a clean energy strategy. Maike Lambarth, founder of Cyclize, will also share her expertise on chemical vs. mechanical recycling. 

In our topics, you can learn more about the FORUM and all the necessary updates from the UnternehmerTUM cosmos.

Enjoy reading 

Your UnternehmerTUM Team 

Topics

FORUM UnternehmerTUM

Together, we want to tackle challenges and find the most effective solutions to make our future more liveable. Our 16th FORUM UnternehmerTUM on May 7 will demonstrate how to strengthen Europe’s resilience with combined forces.

We bring together the start-up scene and talk to high-caliber guests about topics related to AI, cleantech, climate, resilient entrepreneurship, and workforce management. 

Find all information and the program here.

Harthof - Munichs Energy-positive Neighborhood?!

How can a city district generate more energy than it consumes? Based on the ambitious goal of becoming energy-neutral by 2035, Munich must find ways to fulfill this ambition.

As part of the project team, Digital Hub Mobility by UnternehmerTUM is demonstrating the contribution that mobility can make to such an energy-positive neighborhood.

This article explains the initiatives for Harthof in the north of Munich and shows possible solutions, such as solar canopies for car parks and an intelligent electricity distribution system.

Empowering Employees

How can companies create a dynamic culture of innovation? The most important thing is that the management level supports the change, motivates its employees, and thus anchors innovation in the company's cultural DNA.

Find out why companies need to become more innovative and how UnternehmerTUM supports business creators with ideas competitions, innovation days, and hackathons.

Strengthening Europe Together

20 leading ecosystem builders from 13 European countries came together in the second Rise Europe Summit in Madrid and Segovia last week. The network defined its strategy for its “Vision Europe 2030” and declared concrete next steps in its second year of operating to create more European Tech Champions. 

Rise Europe’s goals are for Europe to become the best place to grow the new economy by contributing one-third of global solutions each of start-ups, scale-ups, and unicorns. Read more.

Media Highlights 

📰 "A German Start-up Factory to Showcase"

"The opportunities to start a business have never been better," reveals Thomas Zeller in an interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau and provides insights into the success factors of a start-up center.

📰 "How Germany's "Start-up Pope" Assesses the Start-up Scene"

In the Business Punk Podcast, Prof. Dr. Helmut Schoenenberger talks about the ecosystem and how it has changed over the last 20 years since UnternehmerTUM was founded.

📰 "Digital Gaps in the SME Sector"

Family businesses need digitalization greatly. The Munich start-up incubator UnternehmerTUM wants to remedy this by using artificial intelligence.

📰 "Sleepless Nights - with Alexander Wottrich" Significant job cuts at Truma. Why did seven percent of the workforce have to be made redundant, and how does it feel when numbers on paper become real people?