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Until January 25, 2026, aspiring founders can apply for the free SCE Incubation at Hochschule München. The program supports startups in the pre-founding phase with coaching, infrastructure, and funding advice worth over 30,000 euros.

The winning teams of the Strascheg Award 2025 are now determined. With innovative ideas from studies, research, and the SCE ecosystem, the founders convinced both the jury and the audience.

The Strascheg Award 2025 is looking for the best business ideas from Munich. A total of 30,000 euros in prize money is available across three categories – for the first time also for external startups with a validated business model.

The European startup hub ranking 2025 is here: in the current rankings by Financial Times and Statista, four Munich founder centers have made it into the top 12: UnternehmerTUM, Start2 Group, the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE), and Baystartup. Werk1 is also represented in the ranking. Further proof of Munich’s strong position as a startup hub in Europe.

The SCE Precelerator aims to motivate young people to start their own businesses. This offering has been available at Hochschule München since 2020, with the café added as a very important first touchpoint of the community space in early 2023. Julia Zipf, startup consultant and manager of the Incubator & Precelerator at the SCE, explains what makes the Precelerator special. Three founders of success stories that came out of the Precelerator also have their say: Micro Factory, Hebio, and Boxing Babe.