Empowering the next generation of female leaders!
As part of the HWR activities, we participated in Girls Day to give girls in grades 7–10 the opportunity to discover entrepreneurship as a career path. But there were also many other great insights into HWR’s fields of study, such as civil engineering and senior police service. It was a fantastic event across all departments.
Female Founders: Inspiration for the Path as an Entrepreneur
At the Startup Incubator Berlin of HWR Berlin (SIB), further students were guided through a dedicated program. The motto was: “Future own business: Ideas and inspiration for future female founders.”
The participants were warmly welcomed at Rohrdamm and were able to showcase their creativity right from the start by brainstorming the meaning of entrepreneurship. They quickly realized that entrepreneurship knows no boundaries and that women can implement creative ideas and become self-employed in any field. After a tour of the SIB premises, the group headed together to the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology.
The highlight of the day was the Innovation Venture Day, where a number of startups presented their ideas. The girls had the opportunity to meet successful female founders who shared their very personal experiences as entrepreneurs and encouraged them to take paths that no one has taken before. What all the students learned: being an entrepreneur means being bold.
You can read a recap of the entire day here: Girls Day at HWR Berlin
The Startup Incubator Berlin of HWR Berlin
At the Startup Incubator Berlin of HWR Berlin, founding ideas are developed to market readiness. To this end, we support academic founding teams with expertise, infrastructure, and scholarships. We create a shared platform for entrepreneurial thinking and action (mindset) with the Berlin business community (including Siemens AG). As a lean incubator, we focus on speed in developing and validating business models with customers.
Since 2016, the Startup Incubator Berlin has been supporting founding teams with the Berlin Startup Scholarship. More than 30 startups have benefited from this financial and non-material support, combined with the infrastructure provided by the HWR Berlin entrepreneurship center, to successfully develop their business ideas and products. Well-known startups such as Wonder, Forget Finance, SunCrafter, and startupdetector are now successfully active in the market. Forget Finance recently closed a seed funding round of €3.8 million.
About the Scholarships
