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Enjoy more impressions from our brilliant Leipzig Founder Night 2024 Edition. All Photos by: Swen Reichhold

The decision has been made: Congratulations to the winners of our 2024 Leipzig Founder's Night! On November 19, 2024, SMILE, Sparkasse Leipzig, and their partners celebrated the Entrepreneurs of the City of Leipzig as well as of the districts of Leipzig and Northern Saxony. Here are the winners of 2024 Leipzig Founder's Night: Category "Idea": CleverBio-Technologies Category "Start-up": Disaster Relief Systems Resylia GmbH Category "10 Years After": SpinLab - The HHL Accelerator Category "Lifetime Achievements": Marko Pfaff & Co. Spezialfahrzeugbau GmbH Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eeJSBkip Picture: Swen Reichhold

😀 Join us and take part in our Leipzig Founder's Night 2024! 😀 🚀 The entrepreneurship initiative SMILE of the SEPT Competence Center is pleased to invite you to the Leipzig Founders' Night ideas competition on 19th of November 2024. 🚀 👍 The Leipzig Founders' Night is a networking and award event for the regional start-up scene and acts as an important forum for innovative business ideas, successful start-ups and the exchange of experiences between entrepreneurs in the City of Leipzig and the districts of Leipzig and North Saxony. 👨👨👦👦 Join us and take part in our exclusive evening event. Get in contact with exciting startups, investors, and aspiring entrepreneurs. 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eG6SCxTU Here is a look back at last year's award ceremony: https://lnkd.in/eC3BZAfH The aim is to promote a positive climate for start-ups in our region and to encourage self-employment. The Leipzig Founders' Night 2024 is organized by the partners City of Leipzig, SMILE - die gründungsinitiative, the districts of Leipzig and North Saxony, the Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Leipzig and Startbahn 13 - Die Gründungsberatung at the HTWK Leipzig. Date: 19.11.2024, 19:00 – 22:00 (admission from 17:30) Venue: Campus Sportwissenschaftliche Fakultät (Jahnallee 59), großer Hörsaal, Pausenhallen Süd/Nord

👍 Support our Leipzig University Startup Team “Inclusive Learning” in the Finals of the Arqus International Innovators Award 2024!   👍 ✨ The Award allows start-ups to present international business models in order to support visibility and networking at the European level for international venture implementation. Within the realm of our university alliance ARQUS 6 startup teams from 6 universities applied by sending in a short image video. ✨ 🐱🏍 We're thrilled to announce the participation of our young start-up team “Inclusive Learning” in this year’s edition of ARQUS International Innovators Award. 🐱🏍 💕 The team from Leipzig develops video games that can be experienced by both sighted and blind players. 💕 🤞Please take a few minutes to watch the ideas. We'll keep our fingers crossed for the Leipzig University Startup Team “Inclusive Learning” 🤞 😃 Vote here: https://lnkd.in/e86EjUZW 😃 🎁 The winner will be announced on 19 November, during the Leipzig Founders’ Night 2024. Join us and take part in in our exclusive evening event. Get in contact with exciting startups, investors, and aspiring entrepreneurs. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eiRR5pcB

🌎  Empowering International Trade: Payment and Delivery Conditions in Foreign Trade💰🚢 This past Friday and Saturday, as part of the Export Management Advanced Training 2024, we hosted an insightful training session titled "Payment and Delivery Conditions in Foreign Trade." 🤝The sessions were led by our expert, Mr. Mirko Dörry who brings many years of experience as an export auditor. The training provided a comprehensive understanding of crucial topics, including Incoterms 2020, customs law, export control, and preferential origin. ✈️ Mr. Dörry's in-depth knowledge enabled participants to explore effective strategies for managing payment and delivery conditions, a cornerstone of successful international trade. 🙌 Thank you to everyone who participated, and a special thanks to Mr. Dörry for his invaluable expertise! #ExportManagement #Incoterms2020 #CustomsLaw #ExportControl #InternationalTrade #EMAT2024 International Startup Campus, Leipzig University

🙌 Join Our Next Born Global Meetup🌍: Leverage LinkedIn for You and Your Business! 🚀 This month, we’re hosting a #LinkedIn workshop tailored for #internationalprofessionals, #freelancers, solo entrepreneurs, and startup founders looking to boost their LinkedIn presence! This hands-on session will equip you with the skills needed to build a strong LinkedIn strategy that delivers results ✨. What You’ll Learn: ✍️Personal page optimization 🎯Targeting the right audience 📣Crafting effective LinkedIn content ⚡Developing a content strategy 📊Understanding LinkedIn algorithms and metrics 📅 Event Details: Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 Time: 18:00 - 20:00 Location: SEPT Competence Center (Ritterstrasse 9-13, 04109 Leipzig, 2nd floor) 👤 Trainer: Mariam Sargsyan, MBA Mariam is a dedicated LinkedIn trainer and business consultant with a background in business development, finance, and strategic planning. She is passionate about empowering people by teaching advanced LinkedIn tactics that help them establish a strong online presence and create tangible commercial results. Mariam graduated from the American University of Armenia with a BA in Business and is currently pursuing an SEPT MBA at Leipzig University. 💪 Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to learn and network! 🔹Registration is open: https://lnkd.in/exY_3FCi #LinkedInWorkshop #BornGlobalMeetup #Networking #LeipzigEvents International Startup Campus Note: This workshop is part of the Born Global Meetup Series in Leipzig, free of charge. If you would like to join our community and offer a workshop to share your knowledge, test your product or service, please write an email to: jazmin.ponce@uni-leipzig.de

Playing video games blind? The SMILE supported startup AVOS - Inclusive Gaming provides answers in the latest Deutsche Welle report! Many computer games are almost impossible for non-sighted people to play. The Leipzig-based start-up AVOS, which is supported by SMILE, develops video games that can be experienced by both sighted and blind players. The article can be found at the following link: https://lnkd.in/eHbJEayS Source: Deutsche Welle (02.11.2024) More information about AVOS: https://lnkd.in/exi-RF_H Leipzig University’s start-up initiative SMILE is a program to support entrepreneurship, start-ups and spin-off companies at regional, national and international level. The SMILE entrepreneurship promotion focuses on research and knowledge-intensive businesses in the fields of biotechnology, healthcare and technology, but also on culture and creative industries, communication, sustainability and social issues. Learn more about SMILE. https://lnkd.in/er6-SedA

🎉 𝐊𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐟𝐟 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐅𝐮𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭! 💫 Last week, we officially launched our Online Marketing Challenge (OMC) 2024-II #Bootcamp —and what a start! From hands-on #TeamBuilding to diving deep into #DigitalMarketingStrategy, our participants are all warmed up to rock this challenge! 😎 ✨ Teamwork Makes Campaigns Work💡 Our journey began with an inspiring #TeamBuilding workshop led by Brenda Irala, founder of InnGenia Game. She showed our teams how #Creativity and #Collaboration can boost success, setting the stage for the challenges ahead. Strong teams = Strong results! 💪 📣  Digital Marketing Strategy Session 🧩 Led by Pia Hasenbein from Projecter GmbH, our first digital marketing bootcamp session gave participants practical insights into planning campaigns, understanding target audiences, choosing the right platforms, and tracking KPIs. From ideation to execution, teamwork is key in every step! 🚀. Thank you Projecter, for hosting us in your amazing Speck’s Hof office 🙌 The journey has just begun! Stay tuned for more news 🌍✨ For more info about the OMC visit: https://lnkd.in/eEyB7VjJ Leipzig University, International Startup Campus, DAAD German Academic Exchange Service, IOSax - Internationalisierungsoffensive Sachsen #OMC2024 #MarketingChallenge #Teamwork #CreativityUnleashed #DigitalMarketing #LearningAndGrowing #SMEs #Startups

Start of the 2024/25 Winter Semester: 21 International students begin their MBA studies at SEPT Competence Center For the winter semester 2024/25, 21 international students have embarked on their MBA studies at the SEPT Competence Center. The students come from 17 different countries, including seven DAAD scholarship holders. From October 7th to 11th, 2024, we welcomed the newcomers with various networking activities. Among these, we enjoyed a two-hour city tour through downtown Leipzig under the beautiful autumn weather. More Information: https://lnkd.in/er84_E74

🎉 We are thrilled to announce the success of our inaugural "#BornGlobalTalks Series"organized by the International Startup Office (SMILE- Leipzig University, Jazmín Ponce Gómez in collaboration with the network of "Female Entrepreneurs & Creatives in Leipzig"! 🙌 A huge thank you to our first guest speaker, Aki Takahashi Co-founder of Gohan Power, for sharing her inspiring entrepreneurship journey and offering invaluable insights on how to successfully navigate the entrepreneurial landscape in Germany. Akiko also shared her experiences on securing funding for her projects in Baden-Württemberg and Saxony 💡💼. ✨ Special thanks to Elisa Türpe from the SMILE Start-up initiative at the University of Leipzig for introducing the #EXISTWomen program – an exciting initiative supporting and empowering female entrepreneurs 🚀💪. Don’t miss out on this opportunity! Thank you to our amazing coworking space host Basislager Coworking Leipzig. Also, thank you to Brenda Irala from FemEC for co-facilitating this event 🤝. Many thanks to all our participants for their interactive questions on innovation, funding, and the cultural environment in Germany🌍💬. 👩💼👨💼 If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, join our international entrepreneurial community! Stay tuned for our next Born Global Meetup and our End of the Year Celebration in December 🎊. Join our meet group for more news: https://lnkd.in/ea3jbYRZ #FemaleEntrepreneurs #Startups #InternationalCommunity #Innovation #Funding #EntrepreneurshipJourney #EXISTWomen #SupportFemaleFounders #SaxonyStartups #LeipzigNetworking #EmpowerWomen #Inspiration