Your challenge
Turning potential into real impact
Many talented people today are faced with the challenge of putting their entrepreneurial thinking into practice – often lacking access, experience, or the right network. This is precisely where Entrepreneurship Saar In just 5 weeks, you will develop your entrepreneurial skills and ideas with experienced coaches, practical challenges and a strong team.
Apply now and take the next step towards the future!
5 weeks
free
For all those who want to get started dynamically, flexibly and innovatively
Application deadline: 06.10.2025
Kick-off: October 27.10.2025, XNUMX
Demo Day: 06.11.2025
Activating talents, implementing ideas, shaping the future


5We offer you a talent-centered innovation program that develops young people into bold, creative, and strategically thinking entrepreneurs.
In teams, with real use cases from practice and accompanied by experienced coaches you will be in 5 weeks Guided from the challenge to the pitch – competency-based, practical and with the fun of real change.
Recognize strengths.
Form teams.
Develop business model.
Design product.
Present pitch.
Grow beyond yourself and learn how to convince others of your visionary solution.
Your contact person
Do you have any questions?
We have the answers! Our colleague Estella Kirsch will be happy to answer all your questions about Saar's entrepreneurial spirit.
Estella Kirsch
estella.kirsch@aws-institut.de
+49 681 96777 157
The schedule
That awaits you
In our unique, free program, you will in just five weeks your entrepreneurial talent discover, realize your full potential and create real innovationsLook forward to exciting keynotes, top-class experts, and an intensive practical phase. With practical learning methods, teamwork, and exciting topics, you'll be taken to the next level. The time commitment is approximately 5-8 hours per week – use your commitment and creativity to make the most of the five weeks and grow!
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Your Benefits
Why us
Entrepreneurial Spirit Saar! In this program, we define entrepreneurial thinking and action as the ability to recognize opportunities and transform them into valuable solutions for the world around us. We offer you a holistic, practice-oriented approach to developing your entrepreneurial skills.
We are your companion in transforming challenges into tangible solutions. Whether you want to promote your own ideas, create innovative changes in companies or work independently and proactively - entrepreneurial thinking is a very important foundation in all areas of life.
Entrepreneurial personality test
Professional and exclusive coaches
Real use cases and final with jury pitch
Certificate and credit points possible
Talent pool and networking to get started
Ready for the challenge?
- To participate you must be at least 18 years old.
- The program takes place primarily online.
- The program is also accessible to English-speaking individuals.
Our experts
Diane Brüggemann is an entrepreneurship enthusiast and coaches founders in national and international contexts. In addition to her passion for business model development and systems innovation, her consulting focus is primarily on entrepreneurial personality, team building, and team development in startups. She has her own founding experience and has been supporting primarily academic founding teams in their development for more than 10 years.

Diane Bruggemann

Nils Jeners
Nils has ten years of experience in innovation as a scientist, founder, and consultant. As an innovation consultant and business design coach, he supports companies in the development and implementation of new products, services, and business models. Nils helps executives realize ideas from the concept phase to market launch. His clients include companies such as Intel, ThyssenKrupp, and Sennheiser. He studied computer science and business administration at RWTH Aachen University, worked at Fraunhofer FIT, and earned his doctorate in computer science. He also holds lectures on innovation at various universities.
Over the past 10 years, Christoph has helped over 2.500 startups and corporate intrapreneurs improve their pitching skills as "The Pitch Doctor." He works as a coach for various accelerator programs and corporate innovation labs throughout Europe and beyond. He also entertains the startup scene with his parodies as the world's first, only, and best (!) "startup comedian." If you ever meet Christoph and he's not wearing a colorful Adidas jacket...it's not Christoph.

Christopher Sollich

Danny Locher
In his role as a business design coach, Danny accompanies corporate intrapreneurs, spin-off teams from academia, and startups on their journey from the initial idea to the first euros in revenue. With business design as his methodological foundation and coaching training under his belt, Danny focuses particularly on the human factors involved in starting a company and dealing with uncertainty. As an experienced business designer, he also regularly advises teams in the early stages of startups on customer research and market and potential analyses.
During his Virtual Design studies, Mathias learned basic skills from the conception of ideas, visualization to the development of different software apps. Since then he has been able to sharpen these skills in many ways. Within the August-Wilhelm Scheer Institute, he works on cross-industry ideas every day and pours them into innovative prototypes, which he then implements together as a team into the first demos or MVPs. As a creative mind, he always keeps an eye on current trends and developments and tries to incorporate them into his work.

Mathias Krick
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