We support students, academic staff and alumni for up to ten years after leaving TUBAF.
Workshops & Events
Our wide range of networking and teaching events qualify prospective founders and founders in all areas that are relevant for a start-up. In addition to traditional topics such as drawing up a business plan or choosing a legal form, this also includes soft skills such as presentation training, team management and personal development. Our current networking and teaching events can be found in the TUBAF events calendar or at saxeed.net
Start-up counselling
In start-up consulting, we support the founding teams from the evaluation of the business idea through the development of the business model to the founding of their own start-up. Founder counselling relates to the early phase of a start-up. The focus is on business model development and the search for a suitable form of financing for a specific start-up project.
SAXEED utilisation school
With the SAXEED Exploitation School, we offer a four-week series of workshops to support academic staff who want to identify and analyse the exploitation potential of their own research project. In addition, participants receive information on protecting their own research, setting up a company, licensing and funding and financing opportunities.
EXIST boot camp
With the EXIST boot camp, we enable start-up teams to prepare their EXIST application in a targeted manner within four weeks. Each week begins with an application-relevant workshop together with other participating start-up teams. The teams then work independently on the relevant part of the application and receive feedback from experienced start-up consultants at the end of the week.
SAXEED Masterclass
The 12-month early-stage incubator for start-up projects with EXIST funding combines a structured coaching roadmap, intensive dialogue between the start-up teams and regular feedback from the expert jury with shared office workspaces in the SAXEED-Base, the coworking space at DBI.
Technology scouting
In addition to the traditional tasks of research and teaching, the area of technology transfer is becoming increasingly important for universities. By actively approaching institutes, chairs and professors, we identify promising, technology-driven start-up projects at an early stage and sensitise scientists to the value of their research. The scientific excellence and research strength of TU Bergakademie Freiberg is demonstrated in the current edition of the research brochure
FOUNDress" start-up programme
In a results-oriented programme lasting several months, we show the participants their potential as (co-)founders and support them in the (further) development of their own founder personality. The programme includes coaching sessions, discussion rounds and workshops that are specifically tailored to the needs of female founders. Participants are also networked with successful female founders and encouraged to socialise with each other as part of joint activities, such as a visit to a start-up-specific trade fair.
