Scholarships
Gründungsstipendium.NRW [Founders' Scholarship]
Are you a HUB member and do you need professional coaching for the implementation of your start-up idea? Then apply for a Gründungsstipendium.NRW [Founders’ Scholarship]! We organise and accompany you through the selection process. Members of our top-class jury are:
- Prof. Dr. Constanze Chwallek, Professorin für Entrepreneurship der FH Aachen
- Maximilian Eckel, Managing Director des WHU Entrepreneurship Center
- Rolf Geisen, Alabon Business Development GmbH
- Christiane Mänz, Zentis
- Bettina Olf, Scholz&Friends Commerce
- Jan Poblocki, RWTH Innovation
- Sven Pietsch, Innoloft GmbH
- Brenda Ritter, Collective Incubator
- Dr. Ansgar Schleicher, S-UBG
- Iris Wilhelmi, Geschäftsführerin des digitalHUB Aachen e. V.
Application Deadline
14th of October 2024
Day of the jury meeting
28th of October 2024
Applications are always open, Jury meetings happen every two month.
Are you interested? Then apply here:
If your application is successful, we will provide you with a coach free of charge for one year. The coach will first define a coaching plan with milestones with you. The digitalHUB also supports you in the acquisition of capital. Find out more here on the official website.
EXIST-Gründerstipendium [Founder Scholarship]
In cooperation with the RWTH Innovation GmbH (formerly Transfer- und Gründerzentrum [Transfer and Business Incubation Centre] of RWTH Aachen University), we support your application for the EXIST-Gründerstipendium. Are you studying, have you graduated or did you graduate less than five years ago? Then you are eligible for this funding as an individual founder or in a team of up to three people. It secures your personal livelihood while you develop your start-up idea and work out your business plan – for a maximum of one year.
- Founders with a doctorate: 3,000 euros/month
- Graduates with a university degree: 2,500 euros/month
- Technical staff: 2,000 euros/month
- Students: 1,000 euros/month
- Child supplement: 100 euros/month per child
- Material expenses: up to 10,000 euros for individual start-ups (max. 30,000 euros for teams)
- Coaching: 5,000 euros
You can find out more about the requirements and further information on the programme website and at the RWTH Innovation GmbH.
HUB scholarship
With a great idea and a convincing pitch, you can get one of the digitalHUB scholarships: One FlexDesk each in the digitalCHURCH & one year of HUB membership at the same time. This includes access to our start-up community, start-up coaches, other founders, potential customers, mentoring and much more.
Apply in the next round! After a preliminary selection, you will present your business model to the jury. Members are our main sponsors who award the HUB scholarships:
On our annual demoDay, our sponsors IHK Aachen, Sparkasse Aachen, Fujitsu Deutschland, STAWAG, Bistum Aachen and NetAachen will award a HUB scholarship.
TechVision Fonds is sponsoring prize money totalling 3,000 euros.
