Get Your Entrepreneurial Journey Started
You want to learn how you can become an entrepreneur or get into the entrepreneurial mindset, but don't know where to even start? We are here to help you get onto the right track.
Embark on your entrepreneurial journey with precision! Whether you're a bachelor, master, doctoral student or scientist, our landing page is crafted to match your entrepreneurial talent level. Explore tailored offerings designed for those just starting out, providing the essential tools to nurture and develop your entrepreneurial skills. Find the perfect resources to kickstart your journey and pave the way for success. Your entrepreneurial adventure begins right here!
For Bachelor Students
- Entrepreneurship in a Digital Age: Learn about the different types of entrepreneurship, understand the entrepreneurial process, discover the tools for realizing entrepreneurial opportunities, and delve deeper into digital entrepreneurship.
- Foundation of Entrepreneurial Business: Learn the basic concepts of entrepreneurship and apply them to real-world cases.
- Entrepreneurial Idea Development: Learn about the theoretical approaches to entrepreneurship and gain practical experience in developing an opportunity assessment plan based on innovative business ideas.
- Innovative Entrepreneurs: Meet outstanding founders, managers, and executives from a variety of industries. Would you like to learn from inspiring role models? Then this lecture is just right for you!
- Introduction to Entrepreneurship (Straubing)
- Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise (Heilbronn)
- SEA Start: Do you have little time but all the more desire to actively seek entrepreneurial, innovative solutions to current challenges? Then SEA:start, our intensive workshop for students and young professionals, is just right for you!
General
- Start-up Launchpad: Experience yourself as an entrepreneur. Develop your business idea with a design thinking approach. Learn how to write your first business plan, build a prototype, and pitch your idea as part of a cool team.
- TUM Science Hackathon: In our first Science Hacks we tackled specific areas, including Sustainability, Human-centered Technology and Building A New Reality. In last year's Hack, we brought edge-cutting solutions in the topic of Trustworthy Systems.
- Innovation Sprint: The Innovation Sprint (former Business Design Sprint) is a 5-day full time experience to learn hands-on basics of design thinking and business design.
- EuroTeQ Collider: Develop an innovative mindset, gain industry experience, and connect with potential employers in this multidisciplinary format. Theme for 2026: Enhance Connections for Sustainable Futures.
Domain Focus
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HackaTUM: Be part of one of the largest hackathons of its kind in the EU and work on exciting industry projects over three days!
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Healthcare Innovation Program: The Healthcare Innovation Program (HIP) of the TUM Venture Lab Healthcare aims to promote and implement patient- and customer-centric digital innovations in medicine. The one-year program consists of Innovation Partners who propose challenges in healthcare and interdisciplinary teams that address and solve these challenges.
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TUM IGL Innovation Competition Weihenstephan: Students at the TUM School of Life Sciences are empowered to discover their potential and turn ideas into projects and viable businesses through a dynamic, competitive educational format.
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Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Hackathon: Join us and work together to develop solutions for current problems in the construction industry!
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robo.innovative Hackathon: Develop innovative AI, robotics, and IoT solutions together!
Sustainability Focus
- Global Entrepreneurship Summer School (SEA:gess): An international education program supporting entrepreneurially-minded students who are strongly committed to improving our society.
- SEA MOOC: Social Entrepreneurship: In our MOOC "Social Entrepreneurship - from idea to implementation", we provide you with tips and tools in 5 modules on what social entrepreneurs should consider and what helps them to develop and implement innovative business models with impact.
- Global Sustainability Challenge: Design and implement sustainable solutions for practice—supported by a Stanford-led consortium of leading educational institutions and experts.
Functional Skills
Technical Skills
- MakerSpace Courses: On an area of 1,500 m² in Garching (TUM Campus) and 1,200 m² in Munich (Munich Urban Colab), we offer high-quality machines, the latest CAD software, a competent crew and a large community of many creative and helpful people in our publicly accessible high-tech workshops, so that you can work on your project quickly, cost-effectively and in an appealing environment.
- Quantum Fellowship Program: Here you will learn everything you need to take on a leadership role in the quantum technology industry.
Transformative Skills
- Impact Entrepreneurship for Transformational Change: Learn the essential skills and knowledge you need to drive positive change in society.
- SEA MOOC: Enabling Entrepreneurs to Shape a Better World: Get equipped with the latest tools and social impact insights to develop your own entrepreneurial potential to solve the world's biggest problems.
- SEA MOOC: Future Skills: The future is inside you. You just have to let it out of you. The MOOC "Future Skills" supports you in developing your future skills. It provides you with the right methods and content to achieve greater impact in your day-to-day work and become fit for the challenges of the future.
- CDTM: CDTM offers the interdisciplinary add-on study program "Technology Management", which is part of the Elite Network of Bavaria. Students from various study backgrounds with creative ideas, great motivation and an entrepreneurial mindset are offered the tools to put their ideas into practice.
- Manage & More: Enabling future leaders and entrepreneurs: the scholarship program at the UnternehmerTUM Academy for Innovators for outstanding entrepreneurial students.