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News from TU Dortumnd

Start-up GaiaIsotopic: EXIST funding for photonic analysis of metabolic processes in cells

The deep tech start-up GaiaIsotopic, which emerged from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at TU Dortmund, is receiving funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE). 

News from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering

Six Startups Begin Incubation Program to Build Gaming Companies in NYC

The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and the New York University Tandon School of Engineering welcome the inaugural cohort of the new Game Design Future Lab (GDFL).

News from the University of Cologne

University of Cologne: Joint “Startup Factory” of the Universities of Cologne, Aachen, and Düsseldorf Receives Millions in Federal Funding

Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy Katherina Reiche announces the winners of the Startup Factories lighthouse competition. UoC and partners’ Gateway Factory receives up to ten million euros as a joint venture of the participating universities to promote deep-tech startups.

DWIH Founders Summit in Cologne

Scientific discoveries are often confined to academic papers and fail to translate into practical applications. With their worldwide start-up programmes, the German Centres for Research and Innovation (DWIH) support German scientists in turning their research into viable business models. At the first DWIH Founders Summit in Cologne at the end of June, alumni of the start-up support programmes CITRIS and the GUILD Academy of the DWIH San Francisco shared their experiences—and what German universities can learn from the international start-up ecosystems.

News from the University of Cologne

Start-up Support at the University of Cologne One of the Best in Germany

The University of Cologne takes third place in the ‘Gründungsradar 2025’ ranking. The Stifterverband rates as particularly positive how the start-up support system is incorporated in the university’s strategy and institutions.

Nationwide Ranking

UA Ruhr Strong in Start-up Support

In the category “Large Universities”, TU Dortmund University and Ruhr University Bochum are among Germany’s ten strongest in the “Gründungsradar 2025” (Start-Up Radar) ranking compiled by the Stifterverband, a joint initiative aimed at promoting improvements in education, science and innovation. The University of Duisburg-Essen advanced to 20th place, meaning that the three partners of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr) have improved significantly in comparison to the last nationwide ranking in 2022 and occupy a very good position.

News from Campus OWL

The AI Marketplace: Central Contact Point for AI in Engineering

Reducing production times, saving costs, and identifying errors – AI is an important key to product development. To bring users, providers, and experts in AI together, partners from industry and science, among them Heinz Nixdorf Institute at Paderborn University, have developed the AI marketplace, a digital platform that provides companies throughout Germany with easy access to AI applications from third-party providers.