The LMU IEC invites to ideate and innovate in a creative and authentic environment and equips people with the necessary tools and resources for our future. Our teaching program offers necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes to recognize and create promising opportunities for every student and postgraduate student at the LMU who is interested in making a positive impact.
impACTup!: Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Better Futures” is a curricular course, anchored in various faculties at LMU Munich and offered in an on-demand online format via Moodle. A modular and interactive setup with short input sessions and interactive exercises will allow you to learn how to build better futures through innovating and entrepreneuring in a novel, exciting way. No prior knowledge is needed for this course. The kickoff and closing sessions are held live on-site with an in-person networking event.
The course “impACTup!: Academic Pathways to Impact and Innovation” is the corresponding format to the course “impACTup!: Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Better Futures”, designed for scientific personnel in form of a hybrid workshop. In addition to the fundamentals of impact-oriented entrepreneurship, we provide multiple examples that aim at promoting impact-oriented thinking in teaching and research and strengthening innovative ideas. Participants will receive a reader (see FAQs for further explanation), which acts as their personal toolbox towards impact-oriented thinking. The course has both online and on demand elements. The closing event is held live on-site at the university.
In "Starting Up" you will learn how to realize your own ideas and transform them into a successful business model. Based on what we teach you in our video lectures, you will work together with students from diverse functional background towards a pitch deck for your own business idea.
Students learn how to develop business models (using the Business Model Canvas tool) under qualified supervision and assistance of trained mentors from several institutes of the Munich School of Management. Course participants gain theoretical knowledge and in parallel, they create and develop a business model for real start-ups in small teams. For LMU School of Management students only.
Join the 5-Euro-Sprint at LMU Munich – no experience needed, just your curiosity and creativity! In just a few weeks, you’ll turn an idea into a real business concept, get support from mentors, and pitch to a jury for the chance to win prizes.
Kick-off: November 10, 2025
Let’s sprint into entrepreneurship!
More information and registration here!
The Gründungs-Hub Oberbayern is an alliance of several Bavarian universities that aims to expand entrepreneurial support across the region’s universities and create a dynamic network that empowers students, researchers and future founders. Its mission is to promote entrepreneurial thinking, accelerate start-up projects, and establish a central anchor point for innovation and business creation in Upper Bavaria. With long-term funding from the Bavarian Ministry of Science and Art, the Hub will serve as a catalyst for turning ideas into successful ventures and will strengthen the regional start-up ecosystem.