Through our programmes for entrepreneurs at UniA, LMU and our partner, the Centre for Digital Technology & Management (CDTM), we see time and time again the innovative power of our students and academics. In the future, they will be the ones who make a difference in our society.
 
Our centres have already helped a number of researchers to become founders. However, many students never come into contact with entrepreneurship and an impact mindset. Exciting ideas do not reach society, or only slowly, and start-ups are rarely considered. With a targeted offer, our universities can realise much more of this potential. That is why we want to provide all students with an effective skillset for implementing ecologically and socially relevant innovations and create sustainable access to entrepreneurship right from the Bachelor's degree level.

Specifically, a four-stage qualification programme is being developed and established at both universities with the basic course for students, the basic course for academic staff, the Impact Science Bootcamps and the Impact Innovation Labs. The aim is to enable students and academics to acquire resilient skills for founding their own company that is economically viable, socially effective and ecologically sustainable.

"Academic Pathways to Impact and Innovation"
January 20, 2025 (Kick-Off via Zoom) / January 30, 2025 (Closing event in person at BCM, Alter Postweg 101, 7th floor, Augsburg)

The course provides profound insights into impact and strives to introduce entrepreneurship as an effective tool for implementing socially and ecologically relevant innovations to everyone. Research, teaching, and entrepreneurial activity are linked and complement each other. Our aim is to implement academic topics relevant to entrepreneurship in the curriculum and translate research findings into practical applications.

The course held in English is designed for academic personnel and PhD students. After a kick-off event via zoom, participants will explore impact, innovation and entrepreneurship in a self study through several short video snippets and exercises facilitated by professors from the LMU Munich and the University of Augsburg. They have 10 days to complete the tasks, which take a total of 4 to 5 hours to complete. As a follow-up meeting in person, there will be a keynote speech by Dr. Nils Mandischer (KI Production Network Augsburg) on the topic “Social Equity in Manufacuring Through Human-Robot Teams”, a fishbowl discussion session of the participants, an overview of the startup infrastructure in Augsburg, as well as the opportunity to network.

Further information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/impactup-academic-pathways-to-impact-and-innovation-tickets-1104269462689

"Impact Innovation Labs" powered by CDTM
April 26-27, 2025 (CDTM, Marsstraße 20, Munich)
The weekend course enables students from the LMU and the University of Augsburg to look beyond the horizon by equipping them with the skills to drive ethical, sustainable, and impactful innovation. The focus lies on product development and the SDGs.

Further information and resgistration: https://cdtm.notion.site/Impact-Innovation-Labs-14f3289ba8d844458df55c2f2876e4a1

‘impACTup!: Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Better Futures’ is a curricular course that will be anchored in all faculties and offered in an on-demand online format, with a kick-off and a final module in presence. In this basic course, we want to offer all LMU and UniA students access to entrepreneurship early on in their studies and provide them with the tools to implement innovations. 
 
The course also aims to create a sound understanding of impact and to shape the students' mindset for ecological and social relevance in entrepreneurial activity. Participants learn to approach problems in our environment, economy and society holistically and with the help of innovative methods and to act independently. The basic course has a strong practical focus and students are shown founding opportunities for start-ups.
 
Contact: Konstantin Leidinger & Christoph Salzmann