Your challenge
Turning potential into real impact
Many talented people today are faced with the challenge of putting their entrepreneurial thinking into practice – often lacking access, experience, or the right network. This is precisely where Unternehmergeist Saar In just 5 weeks, you will develop your entrepreneurial skills and ideas with experienced coaches, practical challenges and a strong team.
Apply now and take the next step towards the future!
50 places
5 weeks
free
For all those who want to get started dynamically, flexibly and innovatively
Applications closed
Kick-off: October 18.05.2026, XNUMX
Demo Day: 19.06.2026
Activating talents, implementing ideas, shaping the future
We offer you a talent-centered innovation program that develops young people into bold, creative, and strategically thinking entrepreneurs.
In teams, with real challenges from practice and accompanied by experienced coaches you will be in 5 weeks Guided from the challenge to the pitch – competency-based, practical and with the fun of real change.
Recognize strengths.
Form teams.
Develop business model.
Design product.
Present pitch.
Grow beyond yourself and learn how to convince others of your visionary solution.
Your contact person
Do you have any questions?
We have the answers! Our colleague Michelle Jörgens will be happy to answer all your questions about Unternehmergeist Saar.
Michelle Jörgens
michelle.joergens@aws-institut.de
+49 172 5847 937
The schedule
That awaits you
In our unique, free program, you will in just five weeks your entrepreneurial talent discover, realize your full potential and create real innovationsLook forward to exciting keynotes, top-class experts, and an intensive practical phase. With your interdisciplinary team and practical learning methods, you'll work on a real-world challenge from one of our innovation fields:
- GreenTech: Innovations that promote sustainability, resource efficiency and active environmental protection
- EdTech: New approaches to learning and education that respond to current challenges in the field of education
- HealthTech: digital and technological solutions to improve prevention, care and health management
- Digital Sports: Innovations that digitally advance and rethink sport, training and sporting experiences
The time commitment is approximately 5-8 hours per week – use your dedication and creativity to make the most of the five weeks and grow!
User behavior and resource efficiency
Buildings consume more energy and water than necessary because users have no insight into their consumption and there are no incentives to save.
Increase acceptance of the energy transition
Necessary infrastructure projects such as wind farms often fail due to local resistance because those affected are involved too late and too little.
Biodiversity & compensatory measures
Companies need to compensate for interventions in nature, but often do not know what biodiversity actually exists and whether measures are truly effective.
Emissions detection in critical infrastructure
Leaks and emissions in energy and water systems often go undetected for a long time because manual checks are too infrequent and too prone to error.
Circular Economy
Smaller and medium-sized enterprises in particular rarely record their material flows systematically and therefore do not know where their materials come from, where they end up and how they could be recycled.
Motivation in digital learning
Digital learning formats are often passive, not cooperative enough, and not very engaging, which leads to learners quickly losing interest and retaining little information.
Competency-based, practical learning
Some companies already have competency taxonomies, but do not know how to scalably transform them into tailored training programs that are adapted to real-world work situations.
Knowledge Management
When experienced employees leave a company, valuable (experiential) knowledge is lost because it was not systematically recorded anywhere.
(Re)training
Technological change is creating new job profiles/role understandings, but existing (re)training programs are too slow, too expensive and not individual enough.
Learning Analytics
Companies invest heavily in further training, but hardly know whether the measures actually have an effect because reliable and practical measurement methods are lacking.
Gender-sensitive care
Medical diagnoses and treatments are often based on historical data that use male patients as the standard, leading to poorer care outcomes for women and other genders.
Communication
Poor communication between patients and medical practices or health centers leads to friction losses, which not only worsen the patient experience but also delay and complicate examinations.
Climate-related health risks
Weather data from early warning systems that predict extreme events such as heat waves or floods are hardly used to identify health consequences for vulnerable population groups early on and to take preventive countermeasures.
supply shortages
Supply shortages usually only become apparent once they have already occurred. Data that could enable early detection is often available, but it is not systematically evaluated or shared.
Occupational safety inspections
Following workplace safety inspections, it remains unclear whether the required measures are actually implemented. Without transparent follow-up, there is no proof of real improvements.
Fan loyalty
Smaller and medium-sized sports clubs reach their fans through many channels today, but rarely manage to offer an experience that creates a bond beyond the match day.
Coaching
In amateur sports and lower leagues, training decisions are often based on experience rather than data, which leaves potential untapped and increases the risk of injury.
Talent scouting
Talents are often discovered through personal networks and subjective assessments, which systematically leads to inequality of opportunity and missed opportunities.
Racing strategy
In amateur motorsport, decisions regarding race strategy and driving behavior are usually made intuitively, because structured information is hardly available during the race.
Sustainability in sport
Sporting events cause significant amounts of waste, emissions and resource consumption, but there is a lack of uniform standards and data to systematically record and specifically reduce the ecological footprint.
Your Benefits
Why us
Unternehmergeist Saar! In this program, we define entrepreneurial thinking and action as the ability to recognize opportunities and transform them into valuable solutions for the world around us. We offer you a holistic, practice-oriented approach to developing your entrepreneurial skills.
We are your companion in transforming challenges into tangible solutions. Whether you want to promote your own ideas, create innovative changes in companies or work independently and proactively - entrepreneurial thinking is a very important foundation in all areas of life.
Entrepreneurial personality test
Professional and exclusive coaches
Real challenges & final with jury pitch
Certificate and credit points possible
Talent pool and networking to get started
Ready for the challenge?
- To participate you must be at least 18 years old.
- The number of participants is limited to 50 people.
- The program takes place primarily online.
- The course is held in German; a B2 level of German is required.
Our experts
Diane Brüggemann is an entrepreneurship enthusiast and coaches founders in national and international contexts. In addition to her passion for business model development and systems innovation, her consulting focus is primarily on entrepreneurial personality, team building, and team development in startups. She has her own founding experience and has been supporting primarily academic founding teams in their development for more than 10 years.
Diane Bruggemann
Nils Jeners
Nils has ten years of experience in innovation as a scientist, founder, and consultant. As an innovation consultant and business design coach, he supports companies in the development and implementation of new products, services, and business models. Nils helps executives realize ideas from the concept phase to market launch. His clients include companies such as Intel, ThyssenKrupp, and Sennheiser. He studied computer science and business administration at RWTH Aachen University, worked at Fraunhofer FIT, and earned his doctorate in computer science. He also holds lectures on innovation at various universities.
Christoph has worked as “The Pitch Doctor” for over 2.500 startups and corporate IntrapreneurHe has helped people to pitch better. He works as a coach for various accelerator programs and corporate innovation labs throughout Europe and beyond. He also amuses the startup scene with his parodies as the world's first, only, and best (!) "startup comedian." If you ever meet Christoph and he's not wearing a colorful Adidas jacket...it's not Christoph.
Christopher Sollich
Danny Locher
In his position as Business Design Coach, Danny accompanies Corporate Intrapreneure, spin-off teams from academia, and startups on their journey from the initial idea to the first euros in revenue. With business design as his methodological foundation and coaching training under his belt, Danny focuses particularly on the human factors involved in starting a company and dealing with uncertainty. As an experienced business designer, he also regularly advises teams in the early stages of startups on customer research and market and potential analyses.
During his Virtual Design studies, Mathias learned fundamental skills ranging from conceptualizing ideas and visualizing them to developing various software apps. He has since been able to sharpen these skills in a variety of ways. August-Wilhelm Scheer At the institute, he refines cross-industry ideas every day, transforming them into innovative prototypes, which he then develops into initial demos or MVPs with his team. As a creative mind, he always keeps an eye on current trends and developments and strives to incorporate them into his work.
Mathias Krick
Appointments
Kick-off event in Saarbrücken
18 May 2026
Demo Day in Saarbrücken
June 19, 2026
Appointments
| Monday | Wednesday | Friday | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 |
18.05.2026 Kick-off event Saarbrücken |
20.05.2026 Expert session: Team 17:00 - 18:30 PM |
22.05.2026 Coaching Session |
| Week 2 |
27.05.2026 Expert session: Market 17:00 - 18:30 PM |
29.05.2026 Coaching Session |
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| Week 3 |
03.06.2026 Expert session: Ideation 17:00 - 18:30 PM |
05.06.2026 Coaching Session |
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| Week 4 |
10.06.2026 Expert Session: Business Model 17:00 - 18:30 PM |
12.06.2026 Coaching Session |
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| Week 5 |
15.06.2026 Expert Session: Pitch 14:00 - 20:00 PM |
17.06.2026 Submission Pitch Deck EOD |
19.06.2026 Demo Day in Saarbrücken |
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