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H3 Health Hub - A Helmholtz Transfer Academy - is a joint program of all six Helmholtz Health centers. Together, we enable researchers, employees and aspiring entrepreneurs to successfully transfer results from the lab into business.

We provide an online platform for community, learning, events and collaborative projects in the field of life science entrepreneurship. Our team includes experts from technology transfer, innovation management and human resources development from all centers to cover the entire development process of aspiring entrepreneurs. In addition, we are supported by an advisory board of experts who provide us with strategic support. Our partners from the regional and national life science ecosystems are integrated closely throughout the process.

Check out our website, join our community and take part in our mission towards a healthier future through entrepreneurship in life sciences!

https://www.helmholtz-h3.de/

The Helmholtz Transfer Academy InnoSuper is a training program for supervisors of young researchers and other professionals. The goal is to exploit the supervisors’ function as multipliers and to raise their awareness for the topics of innovation and transfer. InnoSuper comprises three interlocking parts: e-learning, workshops, and coaching. In a modular e-learning format, the basics of knowledge and technology transfer are taught using practical examples. Then, two face-to-face workshops will elaborate on the topics and give the opportunity to network between the centers and exchange ideas on supporting transfer activities as a supervisor. This includes motivating team members for transfer, identifying transfer activities and operationalizing them. In the coaching sessions, the specific challenges and circumstances of the individual participants are addressed. The coaching sessions are carried out by the transfer departments of the respective Helmholtz centers. This enables first-class support for supervisors, even after the program has ended.

https://www.innosuper.de/de (only GER)

Contributing to the solution of urgent problems in society and the economy with own scientific results?

For many researchers, this is a strong ambition, but also a real challenge in their day-to-day work. HAFIS supports them with a project-based approach: In a nine-month cycle, we accompany researchers inidentifying and implementing their own transfer projects that fit their results and suit them individually. The academy is open to all transfer formats, from knowledge and technology transfer to starting your own business.

In a cross-center program, participants gain methodological knowledge, establish teams, work with coaches on their projects, benefit from exchanges with experts from society and industry, and network with each other. They are inspired to develop their own projects and broaden their perspective on the possibilities of making an impact with research. Through collaboration with various Helmholtz centers and their partner organizations, participants' research topics become visible beyond the scientific community. But most importantly, during the program, attendees already achieve first prototypical results.

https://hafis.info/

Future Innovator aims to change the mindset of researchers and spark interest in transfer. The Academy programme is thus located at a very early stage in the transfer and innovation process.

The contents of the Academy are subdivided into individual modules, which are divided into the following areas:

Introduction to Entrepreneurship - Innovator Classes: Teaching entrepreneurial skills and self-analysis.

Become an Innovator - High-Tech Design Sprint: adapted biodesign concept, a demand-oriented approach, 1-week sprint in presence with final event; participants work in interdisciplinary teams with economists and designers.

Find your Business Idea: Identify transfer potentials and use cases of own research, implementation sprint for the most promising ideas. Networking events take place in parallel to include participants in the start-up and transfer communities: e.g. Entrepreneur Lounge, Entrepreneurship Lunch (DLR and DESY).

What is the goal of our research? For many scientists, the answer to this question is that they want to put their ideas into practice quickly so that society can benefit from them. For this to succeed, entrepreneurial skills are needed in addition to scientific competence. However, because in most cases these first have to be learned, the HZDR Innovators School has been in existence since the beginning of 2023. By intensifying and systematically bundling qualification and awareness-raising offers, the Transfer Department would like to promote the transfer and entrepreneurship culture at HZDR on a broad scale in the future.

The HZDR Innovators School is a Helmholtz Transfer Academy realised by the HZDR Technology Transfer & Innovation department together with the Human Resources department and the Postdoc Center HZDR-TUD and other partners such as dresden|exists, the HighTech Startbahn and HZDR Innovation GmbH. The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and the German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam are involved in the HZDR Innovators School as advisory boards. At the same time, the qualification offers are open for the advisory board centres.

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StartUpSecure - Comprehensive consulting for start-ups in IT security as a competence center selected by the BMBF and thus also support in applying for funding
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Entrepreneurship Education - Possibility of financing via the CISPA Venture Capital Fund.
o Workshops for researchers and start-ups
o In addition, various networking opportunities, such as info sessions, community exchange events, excursions to partners, meetings with investors, etc.
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CISPA Founders Fellowship: Program to promote start-up initiatives at CISPA
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Product Labs: opportunity to develop prototypes for startup projects created at CISPA, support in the area of product development

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Support in the area of IP transfer with the help of a separate, standardized process, including contracts, to secure intellectual property and enable a smooth transition - there are also info sessions on this to sensitize interested parties at an early stage

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HEPTrepreneurs - Entrepreneurship training organised several times a year in cooperation with the HEPTech network.
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DLR_Startup Factory - Company Building Programme with a focus on DLR technologies, which offers founders a comprehensive and systematic framework programme for building successful research-based start-ups

Offer for DLR founders and external techpreneurs:

o Systematic company building programme with intensive support and numerous workshops
o Advice on deciding on the startup or techpreneur path
o Financing of startup projects
o Networking between DLR founders and the startup scene
o For spin-offs with high potential under certain conditions: DLR could possibly participate as a shareholder and co-investor
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HZDR Innovation Contest - Yearly contest for innovative research ideas that have the potential to be transformed into a product or service for practical application.
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HZDR Innovation Fund - The fund is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the HZDR itself. Its purpose is to provide support for validation and spin-off projects. Its annual allocation is EUR 400,000.
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JUICE - The Jülich Innovation & Entrepreneurship Certificate Program, is designed specifically for ambitious young scientists.
o Tailored Learning for Maximum Impact
o Go Solo or Collaborate
o Interdisciplinary Collaboration
o Innovation funding
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DESY Start-up Office - The DESY Start-up Office provides individual advice to founders and start-ups that offer high-tech products or services.
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DESY Start-up School - The Start-up School offers an educational program to equip scientists and engineers with entrepreneurial skills.
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Makerspace - For innovative product ideas from the deep-tech sector, the Makerspace of the DESY Innovation Factory offers 120m2 of experimental space for 3D printing, mechanics and electronics.
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Startup Port (Foundation support in the Hamburg metropolitan region ) - As a (founding) partner, DESY pre-founding teams have access to all the services offered by Startup Port
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