Explore the start-up potential of your PhD
💡 You’re doing your doctorate at an EELISA university?
💡 Your research topic is too good to go, after your PhD will be finished?
💡 It might even be something for a start-up adventure?
💡 But you don’t know yet. You need some nudging, some support, feedback and role models?
We would love to help you!
- Application deadline is September 19, 2025, noon. With the form below. So people have enough time to make their travel arrangements.
- We welcome 30 people; ~50:50 FAU:EELISA; Depending on applications, we will select up to two participants per EELISA partner on a “first come, first serve”-basis.
- Please clarify BEFORE your application with your local EELISA-team, whether they can assist you with travel grants.
Date and Location
💡 Monday, September 22, 2025
⛳ panOPTIKUM, Paul-Gordan-Straße 6, Erlangen
💡 Lunch and soft drinks will be provided, as well as a lot of fun, know-how and great people!
Agenda
Still work in progress – but it will most likely look like this:
- 09:00 –> Welcome from the graduate center & Key Note with Dr. Caspar Paetz, CTO of Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies GmbH
- Lego Serious Play (Business idea or research focus) with Iman Hamadi
- Role Model – Startup talk with Dr. Niklas Duda, Founder of Dulog
- Lunch
- Know-how transfer/ patents/ IP with Martin Golze, Patent Manager at FAU
- Role Model – Startup talk with Dr. Pierre Türschmann, Co-Founder of Interherence and q-wave
- Ideation workshop with Dr. Judit Klein, Head of Startups at ZOLLHOF
Contact
- Melanie Viebahn – EELISA project manager @FAU – contact for organisational and technical issues
- Iman Hamadi – founders support office @FAU
- David Schkade – EELISA project manager @FAU