The Sustainability Center Freiburg (LZN) aims to strengthen the start-up scene in Freiburg and support promising technological ideas on their way to becoming start-ups.

The Sustainability Center Freiburg is already represented in the activation phase with the annual Innovation Bar: Here there are exciting, sometimes very personal, insights into founding stories of already successful start-ups and the opportunity to get a taste of the Freiburg start-up ecosystem and to network.

The Freiburg start-up ecosystem (see Fig. 1) offers first-class support for start-ups. This is also shown by the latest publication from startupdetector: Freiburg ranks 3rd after Berlin and Munich in terms of the number of startups founded per inhabitant.

In an academic context, the University of Freiburg's start-up office is an important point of contact whose services are always available to interested LZN teams.

Other important partners in the regional start-up scene are BadenCampus and Grünhof Freiburg, which support the LZN teams with accelerator programs and start-up consulting.

In addition, Fraunhofer Venture and the AHEAD program provide interested LZN teams with a central spin-off and education management program.

We provide funding to support teams from the five Fraunhofer Institutes in Freiburg who are interested in founding a company, giving them the necessary freedom to pursue their business idea and put it on the right track. In addition, researchers from the Sustainability Center can access innovation vouchers for individual advice on the topic of spin-offs.

Are you interested? Then send us an e-mail: geschaeftsstelle[at]leistungszentrum-nachhaltigkeit.de