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Team & Contact

Welcome to the Start-up Service team: Your contact partners for start-up and self-employment matters.

We are at your side with our expertise, experience, specialist knowledge and commitment and will support you on your way, no matter where you are at the moment.

SQuArE start-up service team

From personal counseling, concept development and legal aspects to strategic planning and implementation, we offer you comprehensive support.

Start-up pilot

As a start-up mentor, I support students, graduates and researchers who want to embark on the exciting path of starting a business. My focus is on offering individual counseling and coaching to accompany budding entrepreneurs on their way.

  • greenhouse.ruhr project in cooperation with the Dortmund Economic Development Agency
  • Counseling and coaching (e.g. skills assessment)
  • Counseling on funding opportunities (e.g. EXIST start-up grant)
  • Mentoring start2grow, coaching start-up grant NRW
  • BMWK funding line: EXIST-Women 

Project SQuArE

Training, qualification and workspacesfor (future) entrepreneurs

The SQuArE  is the central contact point for the start-up service. Here you can work on your ideas and projects in our makerspace, network and take advantage of our counseling, support, coaching, workshop, teaching and training services .

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Christina Schönberger
Fax
  • +49 231 91129342
Office hours

Opening hours of the SQuArE start-up and creative center:
Mon 10-16
Tue 10-16
Wed 10-18

other days/times by arrangement

Management

  • Head of the SQuArE start-up, training and creative center
  • Curricular and extracurricular events
  • Kickstart
  • Counseling and coaching (including the NRW start-up grant and skills assessment)
  • Mediation of legal advice
  • BMWK funding line: EXIST-Women(Opens in a new tab) 

Management, expansion and support of Makerspace

  • Technical and practical workshops (e.g. CAD and 3D printing)
  • Supervision of technology projects
  • Bicycle workshop
  • Repair Café

ruhrvalley Start-up Campus

The joint project ruhrvalley Start-up-Campus  of the Fachhochschule Dortmund, Bochum University of Applied Sciences and Arts and the Westfälische Hochschule promotes and supports start-ups from all faculties and study programs. Those interested in founding a company are given targeted support in transferring their ideas, technologies and research results into potential business projects.

Project management

  • Counseling and coaching
  • Coaching Start-up grant NRW
  • Ideas competition
  • Bootcamps
  • Topsim business games

Project management

  • Organizational development
  • Evaluation
  • Management workshops and guidelines
  • Quantitative & qualitative evaluations
  • Counseling and coaching
  • Sustainable start-up consulting
  • BMWK funding line: EXIST-Women 

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