bbw Hochschule - University of Applied Sciences launches "bbw Start-up Centre PUSH"

2020-05-19

Haus der Wirtschaft, Am Schillertheather

In Berlin's Haus der Wirtschaft, business start-ups will soon also receive professional advice.

Now the development of the "bbw Start-up Centre PUSH" can begin - the final notice of approval has arrived: from May 2020 to February 2024, the bbw University will receive the funding of around one million euros that was promised by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi) in December 2019. As a prizewinner in the BMWi competition within the framework of the "EXIST-Potentials" funding programme, in December last year, the bbw Hochschule -University of Applied Sciences and its partner institutions - the Berlin-Brandenburg Business Associations (UVB) and the Centre for Entrepreneurship (CfE) of the TU Berlin - were able to convince the funding authorities with their concept and expertise.

Christian Grosser, Director of the bbw Start-up Centre: "With the support provided by the "EXIST-Potentials" programme, we have the opportunity to establish a lively and activating start-up culture. We want to motivate our students and alumni, including many foreign students, but also, for example, bbw further education graduates with and without an academic degree, who are interested in starting their own company, to start up their own business and receive professional support when entering the market. We will locate our 'bbw Start-up Centre' in Berlin's Haus der Wirtschaft and thus offer a very central contact point for future entrepreneurs. We will then be located in the same building as the UVB, at the main location of the bbw Bildungswerk der Wirtschaft in Berlin and Brandenburg - to which the bbw Academy belongs - and in the immediate vicinity of their bbw Hochschule - University of Applied Sciences with a very active research department and associated institutes. A perfect place to support young entrepreneurs with innovation potential and to bring them together with the established economy and its know-how, if required."

Students, graduates and teaching staff of the bbw Hochschule - University of Applied Sciences, as well as external founders, receive the necessary PUSH in the bbw Start-up Centre, which turns their ideas into a marketable business concept - PUSH stands for practice-oriented consulting, support during the first steps into self-employment and help with market entry. To this end, the "bbw Start-up Centre" aims to be an open, dialogue-oriented and transparent research facility that is also a consulting institution. In addition to professional consulting by experienced founders, it aims above all to seek, facilitate and actively accompany the exchange between future entrepreneurs within and outside of science and business. In order to organize this lively exchange between all participants, the team of the "bbw Start-up Centre" is developing, among other things, various communication and cooperation formats.

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