Welcome to the FAU – Digital Tech Academy
The Digital Tech Academy is the overarching HUB for digitization and entrepreneurship at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. It is embedded into the university department of strategic planning S-Outreach as ‘Knowledge and Technology Transfer’ which is the single point of contact for Spin-off services, Joint R&D projects, IP management, continuing education and event management.
We at the Digital Tech Academy scale and professionalize digital entrepreneurship endeavors at the FAU and integrate existing (extra-) curricular offerings and provide novel formats with charisma and leverage.
In addition, we frame, harmonize, and build a central platform for all offerings in the field of “Digital Entrepreneurship”.
The Digital Tech Academy secures its high quality expectations through:
+ a direct connection to the university administration
+ a board with central responsibilities
+ a network throughout all faculties and university institutions
+ the close relationship to the start-up and innovation networks of our region
+ through our top notch alumni network
+ with support from the FAU spin-off services
The Digital Tech Academy consists of three main pillars:
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FAU – Digital Tech Fellows Program
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Entrepreneurial Innovation Hub
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Starting Business Ideas @ FAU Program
The Digital Tech Fellows Program
The Digital Tech Fellows Program is a 12 weeks elite summer semester program for entrepreneurial and tech talents from all degrees and PhD programs at FAU, educating future digital changemakers. You can work on an innovation project or start-up idea which comes from the participants themselves.
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Please find the detailed information here.
The Entrepreneurial Innovation Hub
This program is our two-semester joint excellence program across all faculties and seven universities of Nuremberg, Ansbach and Erlangen. It is open to outstanding innovative talents from all degrees and PhD programs as well as to research assistants who do not yet have a business idea. Applications are accepted in summer semester and the program starts in the winter semester.
Please find more to the Hub program here.
The Starting Business Ideas @ FAU Program
This program provides you a series of Zoom workshops which help you to get started with your idea. Join all workshops or pick any workshop of your choice.
Please find your opportunities as an entrepreneur or intrapreneur here.
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