Stakeholders, initiatives, and organizations in and around Schweinfurt
The Startup Alliance of the Schweinfurt region consists of the following stakeholders, organizations, and initiatives. They plan, develop, and implement joint events for founders in the Schweinfurt region and ensure a unified external presence.
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Startbahn27 With Startbahn27, we offer you a comprehensive range of services that accompany you from the very first idea to a successful business launch – and beyond. Whether in the FLIGHT Accelerator with individual coaching, mentoring, and strong networks, at our diverse event formats, in personal startup consulting, or through formats such as the Startbahn27 podcast and the monthly on-board magazine – we help you and your idea take off.
In addition, you’ll find practical tools on our website such as a contact search, overviews of contact points for different target groups, innovation workshops, and much more. No matter where you are on your journey – at Startbahn27, you’ll find support, inspiration, and the right contacts for your next step.
In addition, you’ll find practical tools on our website such as a contact search, overviews of contact points for different target groups, innovation workshops, and much more. No matter where you are on your journey – at Startbahn27, you’ll find support, inspiration, and the right contacts for your next step.
City of Schweinfurt Schweinfurt is an independent city in the administrative district of Lower Franconia in the Free State of Bavaria. It is the most important industrial city in northern Bavaria and the administrative seat of the Schweinfurt district.
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District of Schweinfurt Active, livable, authentic! The Schweinfurt District is convincing. This is what makes the region a home for all of us and regularly inspires people to make it their place of residence. Shaped by a solid economic structure and an ideal location close to economic and cultural hotspots, the Schweinfurt District is also a family-friendly region with a high recreational value. This is a place worth living and working in.
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Founders Center GRIBS Schweinfurt The GRIBS Business and Technology Center Schweinfurt has been active since 1994, with its core business in startup consulting and other, also time-specific, projects. It advises and supports anyone interested in founding or establishing a business in the city or district of Schweinfurt. In particular, startups in the fields of IT, software, technology, and business-related services can rent individual office spaces covering a total area of 1,500 sqm. Through additional partners, the supraregional startup scene is specifically promoted and connected under the “Startbahn27” label and through new formats.
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Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt With EntrepreneurSHIP and the Startup Lab WERK:RAUM, the Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt offers two perfect points of contact for students interested in founding a business.
IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt The Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) Würzburg-Schweinfurt is the chamber of industry and commerce for the Mainfranken region and supports around 71,000 member companies. It represents the overall interests of the commercial economy in Mainfranken. The IHK district covers the cities of Würzburg and Schweinfurt as well as the districts of Bad Kissingen, Haßberge, Kitzingen, Main-Spessart, Rhön-Grabfeld, Schweinfurt, and Würzburg.
HWK Lower Franconia With the support of the Chamber of Skilled Crafts for Lower Franconia (HWK Unterfranken), craft industry founders can successfully start their journey into self-employment. Business management consulting for founders in the skilled crafts sector is an essential part of the craft industry’s business development services. Craft enterprises can make use of this consulting service at any time. The business consultants of the Chamber of Skilled Crafts for Lower Franconia assist with all questions relating to starting a business in the skilled crafts sector.
ZDI Mainfranken The Center for Digital Innovations (ZDI) Mainfranken is a startup center in Würzburg and is intended to represent the entire Mainfranken region. As a digital startup center, the ZDI Mainfranken promotes the founding activities of digital startups. Together with cooperation partners – universities, the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK), and the startup centers in Würzburg, Schweinfurt, and Bad Kissingen – it forms a region-wide startup ecosystem at the interface between science and business. The ZDI Mainfranken is supported by companies from the region, its network partners. In addition to organizing events, the center is represented in three buildings at Hubland: the Idea Lab in the Tower, the Startup Lab in the Cube, and the Incubator.
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IGZ Würzburg The Innovation and Startup Center (IGZ) Würzburg is the largest startup center in Lower Franconia. Specializing in high-tech startups, the center offers young companies 3,000 m² of office space and 2,500 m² of laboratory space for rent. As the only center in the region with an industry focus on life sciences, it provides the necessary infrastructure (laboratory space), support services (consulting, coaching, qualification), and access to relevant supraregional “life science networks” for the successful development of startups in this sector. The IGZ is a location partner of the Bavarian Biotechnology Cluster.
TGZ Würzburg We are positioned as one of the central launchpads for founders as well as an innovation advisory center in the region, supporting technology-oriented startups with a focus on automation, Industry 4.0, aerospace, and machine-controlled technologies through suitable infrastructure and an active network. Our four-story, modern building – with a large workshop hall for building prototypes and carrying out tests, as well as additional event spaces – provides room for innovations made in Würzburg. Together with the other local startup centers, we contribute to an active startup scene in Würzburg and work on innovative projects to strengthen the Mainfranken economic region.
Starthouse Spessart We bring together the regional business community with developers of innovative ideas, creating a valuable network of digital and innovative forward-thinkers. In the newly created and modern premises in the center of Lohr am Main, founders are given the necessary tools to realize and test their digital business ideas. We offer an innovation ecosystem that connects business, science, and society. Young entrepreneurs are directly integrated into a strong network of regional companies, public institutions, and funding bodies, and benefit from coaching, events, and mentoring programs.
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RSG Bad Kissingen The Rhön-Saale Startup Center is a point of contact for aspiring founders and young entrepreneurs in Bad Kissingen.
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GSN Main-Spessart The Startup Service Network is the operational branch of the economic development agency of the Main-Spessart district, based in Karlstadt am Main.
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Julius-Maximilian-University Würzburg Students, researchers, and alumni interested in founding a business have an ideal point of contact in the Service Center for Research and Technology Transfer at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.
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WJ Schweinfurt The Junior Chamber Schweinfurt is a voluntary association of young entrepreneurs and self-employed individuals, as well as young executives and future leaders from the business community, who are interested and engaged in economic and socio-political matters.
97.Club - The Company Builders The 97.CLUB – The Company Builders are successful entrepreneurs, consultants, and investors from Schweinfurt. They support startups in founding and financing. With their combined expertise and many years of experience, they accelerate the learning process of founders and promote the development of startups. Through innovative and agile methods, founders are prepared to deal with uncertainty and novelty in new business fields and to design iterative product development cycles. The 97.CLUB provides individual guidance from idea development to product-market fit. In the end, the goal is to create independent companies that are profitable in the long term.
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AktivSenioren Bavaria e.V. AktivSenioren (Active retirees) Bavaria supports business start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and non-profit organizations in business management tasks – both holistically and on a case-by-case basis. We act as “sparring partners,” create new solutions, and help overcome crises. We assist founders in developing, optimizing, and implementing a business concept.
Gründen@Würzburg The initiative Gründen@Würzburg is the central networking and exchange platform for the Würzburg startup scene. A circle of supporters – including universities, startup centers, chambers, companies, and consultants – helps aspiring founders with the many questions related to starting a business. Through various activities, such as the regular founders’ meet-up or the Würzburg Startup Award, startups, individuals interested in founding, investors, as well as representatives from the media, politics, and administration are brought together in Würzburg.
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