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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium">[[File:Leuphana.jpg|thumb|left|400px|Leuphana.jpg]]<span style="color:#000000">The Leuphana University of Lüneburg is a public university located in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany with 9,000 students.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap">The Leuphana University of Lüneburg is a young public universitylocated in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany with appx. It is based on innovation instead of tradition. It is their ongoing aspiration to create a place that is being animated by the collective search for knowledge and viable solutions9,000 students.<br/span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap">This already applies to the study. Therefore, Leuphana established the first public college in Germanyis a young university, joined the academic program and therefore largely based on innovation instead of Master and PhD in tradition. The university strives to create a place that is driven by a graduate school collective search for knowledge and has its own professional school for demanding further education programsviable social solutions.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium"><span style="color: rgb(33This drive for innovation and social solutions is apparent in Leuphana’s study programs. Leuphana established the first public college in Germany, 33, 33); font-family: arialcreated academic programs for Master and PhD, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap">Every study is based on holismand has its own professional school for furthering education.</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium">Non-subjectsCourses at Leuphana are based on holism, but with socially relevant questions are at the forefront. From the very first day, this This means embracing the various approaches and disciplines of science. In order to research on subjects instead of in just disciplines, Leuphana's science initiatives make it possible to contribute profound specialist knowledge to an overall university discourse. To include Integrating extra-curricular experience from the beginning activities is an important part of our the academic culture.</span> <span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium"><span style="color:#000000"></span></span>

<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#222222; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baselinemedium">Leuphana University does many organizes various activities and offers a wide range of classes to support Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship. In master classes some offerings, like Startup -counseling, student teams are being matched with local startups to assist them in one specific issue. The students get to understand, how a startup functions while the startups get help in one specific research issue. In a course called Startup Management, students use the Business Model Canvas to sketch out their own idea. At the end of the course, all teams pitch their idea in front of Venture Capitalists to get funding.</span> <br/><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#222222; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Next to the courses, there are lots of extracurricular activities focused on startup (counseling). Our Entrepreneurship Hub offers many workshop formats aimed at students (a) already having their own business or (b) wanting to start a venture.</span>

<br/><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#222222; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baselinemedium">Also<br/>Next to the courses, there are lots of extracurricular activities to promote the startup spirit within focused on startups (& counseling). The Leuphana: Workshops covering Design Thinking as Entrepreneurship Hub offers many workshop formats aimed at students (a creative method to develop new services ) already having their own business or products, the workshop ‘Next Top Gründer’ aims at bringing the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship into local companies and student teams. Within this format, groups have (b) wanting to develop start a market idea within a three hour workshopventure.</span>

<br/><span style="font-size:12pt; font-familymedium"><br/>Also, there are lots of activities to promote the startup spirit within Leuphana:Arial; color:#222222; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-Workshops covering Design Thinking as a creative method to develop new services or products, the workshop ‘Next Top Gründer’ aims at bringing the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship into local companies and student teams. Within this format, groups have to develop a market idea within a three hour workshop.</span><span style:normal; ="font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-alignsize:baselinemedium"><br/>'''The Leuphana Conference of Entrepreneurship''' is a huge event taking place once every year. National and international startups, investors , and interested people come together for a couple of days to talk about the latest findings in the research on startups and venture creation as well as new business ideas.</span><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#222222; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baselinemedium">The “startup-spirit” is not only promoted around to students. Also faculties Faculties are being also encouraged to act in a lean, startup-like fashion. Being organized in such a way is of course much easier for a small university than a huge oneallows faculty to circumvent some of the obstacles of larger institutions.</span> <br/><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#222222; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Multiple faculties focus their research around innovation and startups. The faculty of innovation management, for example, focuses its research on what makes innovations succeed. Right now, they are primarily concentrating on social innovations within cities. One of their class offerings is aimed at students developing an idea for a social innovation (using the principles of design thinking and the Business Model Canvas) and - by the end of the course - pitching it to social entrepreneurs and investors. &nbsp;</span>

<br/><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#222222; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baselinemedium">Next to different <br/>Multiple faculties focusing on venture creation / focus their research around innovation and startups. The faculty of innovation management, the upper mentioned Entrepreneurship Hub and for example, focuses its '''Startup Service''' ([http://wwwresearch on what makes innovations succeed.leuphanaRight now, they are primarily concentrating on social innovations within cities.de/en/partners/entrepreneurship-One of their class offerings is aimed at-leuphana-university/start-up.html http://www.leuphana.de/en/partners/entrepreneurship-at-leuphana-university/start-up.html]students developing an idea for a social innovation (using the principles of design thinking and the Business Model Canvas)</span><span style="fontand -size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#222222; backgroundby the end of the course -color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">, not only supports students, but also graduates and staff on how pitching it to successfully prepare social entrepreneurs and organize a startup businessinvestors.&nbsp;</span>

<br/><span style="font-size:12pt; fontmedium"><br/>Next to different faculties focusing on venture creation / startups, the Entrepreneurship Hub and its '''Startup Service''' ([http://www.leuphana.de/en/partners/entrepreneurship-at-leuphana-university/start-familyup.html http:Arial; color:#222222; background//www.leuphana.de/en/partners/entrepreneurship-at-color:transparent; fontleuphana-weight:400; fontuniversity/start-up.html]), not only supports students, but also graduates and staff on how to successfully prepare and organize a startup business.</span><span style:normal; ="font-variantsize:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baselinemedium"><br/>So, the startup spirit is promoted throughout the whole university, which is the reason why Leuphana, with all its events, workshops, and multiple formats, has been ranked as the most entrepreneur-friendly medium-sized university in Germany.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#222222; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">is promoted throughout the whole university, which is the reason why Leuphana, with all its events, workshops and multiple formats has been ranked as the most entrepreneur<span style="font-friendly size:medium-sized university in Germany. &nbsp;&nbsp;"></span><br/></span></div>

<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#212121; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baselinemedium">The Leuphana University is in constant dialogue with those responsible for leaders in business and society. In line with its particular unique action-oriented competence profile, Leuphana sees itself as an efficient cooperation partner for the region. In doing so, Leuphana is willing to take up relevant questions in the fields of business, technology , and administration, as well as in the social, cultural and environmental fields, as well as initiate her field. Leuphana initiates its own innovation projects with the relevant partners, within the framework of knowledge and technology transfer.<br/span> <br/span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#212121; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baselinemedium"><br/>Products and services or to make processes more efficient: the Leuphana University sees itself as an efficient partner for business and society. With its transdisciplinary interdisciplinary research, the university offers solutions to their the problems to of regional as well as international partners. By working together with Leuphana University, companies and organizations can develop ideas and implement innovations in practice.</span> 

<div><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#212121; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baselinemedium">The Leuphana University cooperates with the business businesses in numerous projects. See in the following two examples:</span><br/><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#212121; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The project </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#212121; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">'''"Sustainability Innovations in Regional SMEs"</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#212121; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">'''(NIREM) ([http://www.leuphana.de/kooperationen/unternehmen/forschung-kooperation/nirem.html http://www.leuphana.de/kooperationen/unternehmen/forschung-kooperation/nirem.html]) deals with the sustainability development of small and medium-sized enterprises from the transition region Lüneburg. The aim of the project is to build up and strengthen a transfer of knowledge between companies and regional universities. In this way, companies Companies can profit from the current status of research on relevant sustainability topics , and the participating universities integrate diverse and practice-oriented experiences into their own research and teaching.<br/span><br/span> <span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#212121; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baselinemedium">The <br/span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#212121; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The '''"Digital Knowledge Transfer Model" </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#212121; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">'''([http://www.leuphana.de/kooperationen/unternehmen/forschung-kooperation/digital-knowledge-transfer-project.html http://www.leuphana.de/kooperationen/unternehmen/forschung-kooperation/digital-knowledge-transfer-project.html]) project, funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the State of Lower Saxony, aims to promote and further develop digital change in research and development using digital tools in the transfer of knowledge in cooperation with the regional economy and society.</span><br/></div><div><br/></div> 

<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#212121; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baselinemedium">Within the business networks of Leuphana University economics, society and science are learning from each other on the same levelengaging in a mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge. Scientists and experts provide entrepreneurs and organizations with application-oriented research results. Together, they are further developed into confidentially develop solutions for company practice in confidential working rounds. The , and Leuphana supports the implementation. Companies and organizations benefit from an extensive regional network. Innovations and innovations can translate them into economic success.<br/span> <br/span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:#212121; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baselinemedium"><br/>The '''Innovation Incubator''' ([http://www.leuphana.de/en/partners/innovation-incubator-lueneburg.html http://www.leuphana.de/en/partners/innovation-incubator-lueneburg.html]) was particularly versatile in transdisciplinary cooperation. The EU economic development project implemented up to around 16 application-oriented research and development projects at Leuphana by through 2015. These collaborations between the university and at least one partner from the business community or from social, cultural , or public institutions developed problem-solvable solutions in the short term. Central features were usability- and application orientation and usability -oriented on the basis of a practice-relevant task. In the two</span><span style="font-year project period, the research projects should take up the needs of applied research and development from practice.size:medium"></span> 

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