SQuArE start-up service: your contact partners for start-up and self-employment matters.
Our services raise awareness of start-ups and self-employment and develop skills that are not only essential for your own start-up. Whether in personal consultations or in workshops and events, we support you with our expertise from the idea to implementation.
Counseling, coaching, workshops & co.
Our offers
Would you like to use the knowledge you have gained from your studies and research to turn your idea into reality? Want to set up your own freelance business after graduation or build an innovative start-up as part of a team?
We support all members of the UAS, from students and alumni to lecturers and employees from central institutions and administration.
Our services are aimed at students, lecturers, employees and alumni of Fachhochschule Dortmund. Whether you are just starting out or are already in the middle of your start-up journey, the start-up service offers you support, counseling and opportunities to network and turn your ideas and projects into reality.
Dates & News
News from the SQuArE
Here you will find news about founding at Fachhochschule Dortmund and more detailed information and registration options for our events.
We also keep you regularly informed via our social media channels and in our newsletter .
SQuArE Makerspace
Realizing ideas and projects
The central contact point for all our activities is the SQuArE Makerspace:
Workshop, PC pool and co-working room offer you a place where you can realize your ideas and projects.
ruhrvalley Start-up Campus
Promotion and support for successful business start-ups
The ruhrvalley Start-up-Campus offers professional structures for the intensive support of start-ups and taps into untapped potential from various faculties.
With a strong network of companies and start-up-promoting institutions in the region, we support you from brainstorming to the successful implementation of your start-up.
Kickstart funding
Up to 7,500 euros for your idea
The Kickstart funding program supports UAS members (individuals and teams) for a period of up to six months with funding of up to 7,500 euros. This can be used to finance special parts and special advice required to implement the idea. The start-up service provides you with close support.
Kickstart supports the testing of initial innovative research ideas in the pre-start-up phase. The aim is to try out things in an uncomplicated way that could lead to a start-up in the future.