Networking creates innovation

The Southern Lower Saxony Innovation Campus (SNIC)

The SüdNiedersachsenInnovationsCampus (SNIC) is a cooperation and networking project that links business and research in southern Lower Saxony and brings them together with local authorities and chambers. This promotes the transfer of innovations from universities to companies, strengthens the start-up ecosystem and qualifies skilled workers.

The SNIC is funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour, Transport and Digitalization, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture and the Volkswagen Foundation. The PFH Private University of Applied Sciences Göttingen is involved in the project with the SNIC Innovation Academy and SNIC Crowdfunding Consulting, among others.

SNIC Innovation Academy

An essential basis and breeding ground for a lively innovation and start-up culture at the universities and the entire region of southern Lower Saxony is a systematic, sustainable range of courses for innovation and start-up qualification. The SNIC Innovation Academy is dedicated to this task. It forms the framework for a series of needs-based qualification formats for innovation, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship education, which links and complements the existing offerings of the universities. The program of measures focuses on innovation learning in order to meet regional educational needs. The spectrum ranges from special events, lecture series, a certificate course with interlinked (part-time) degree courses to a possible doctoral program in the field of innovation.

The program is aimed at students, alumni and academics as well as specialists and managers from regional companies.

SNIC Crowdfunding consulting

Based on years of experience from research and consulting practice, the ZE Center for Entrepreneurship offers project initiators and companies in southern Lower Saxony a free range of information, support and assistance in the area of crowd funding. These services are funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the Southern Lower Saxony Innovation Campus (SNIC).

The advisory service is aimed at people in the region who want to use crowdfunding to realize their ideas, including financing and market testing, or who want to use it as a marketing tool. We provide project initiators with neutral and individual advice on all forms of crowdfunding and support them with the following services:

• Reviewing ideas and highlighting the possibilities and limitations of crowdfunding for your own project
• Individual advice and support for crowdfunding projects
• Assistance based on best practices and guidelines
• Support in the selection of suitable crowdfunding platforms and types
• Preparatory project management and structuring of crowdfunding projects
• Involvement of regional supporters and co-financing partners
• Networking with other network and cooperation partners and service providers
• Information events, lectures, seminars and interactive workshops to impart knowledge

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