This is the 5-Euro-Business Competition: You find a business idea, develop it further in a team and realise it on the real market. Throughout the competition, you and your team will receive expert support and training. You present your company as a team in front of an expert jury and can compete for the winning title.
Further information on the competition can be found under 5-Euro-Business on the website of the project sponsor Bildungswerke der Bayerischen Wirtschaft (bbw).
Join the INFO event on 21st October at 6 p.m. at the University of Passau.
There you will receive all information about the competition in winter semester 25/26 and can ask your questions.
Visit the kick-off event of the 5-Euro-Business-Competition at our PATEC EVENT on 18 November startiing at 6 p.m. in the IT-Centre!
Dr Maria Diekmann will be happy to help you with any questions you may have in the run-up to the event or generally on the subject of finding ideas for a project that you would like to realise and need support with.
Weekly on Tuesdays from 9 - 11 a.m. or via email to maria.diekmann@uni-passau.de
This is your chance!
In the theory phase, various chairs and external speakers provide important and practice-oriented input on topics such as idea development, project management, marketing, law/protection rights, prototyping and PR.
Individual coaching during the competition is provided by the Start-up consultation of the university and the team of the INN.KUBATOR Gründerzentrums. Here, all questions from idea to business model to final pitches can be discussed.
During the business phase, the teams receive support from mentors from the business world and can profit from the experience and network of regional managers.
Get insights into the creative business ideas of successful teams that have participated at the different 5-Euro-Business universities.
We welcome participants from all faculties. Even if you cannot earn ECTS for your course of study, you are welcome!
After successfully completing the competition, you will receive a certificate from the Bildungswerk der Bayerischen Wirtschaft e.V. You can also receive 5 ECTS (from the Chair of Business Administration with a focus on Organisation, Management and Entrepreneurship) for writing an additional seminar paper. The seminar papers which have to be written individually after the competition (not the business report of the founding team) are evaluated: the grades of the team members can therefore differ and the competition placement does not determine the seminar grades.
Whether ECTS can be brought into your programme is determined by the study and examination regulations of your programme and cannot be determined by us.
To the best of our knowledge, ECTS can only be applied to the following degree programmes:
After the final event of the competition, there will be a kick-off for the start of the preparation of the seminar papers in due time.
The 5 Euro Business Competition at the University of Passau in the winter semester 24/25 has come to a successful end. The big closing event took place on Tuesday, 21 January 2025, at the IT-Center at the University of Passau.
Visitors were treated to an evening of entertainment and inspiration as the start-up teams presented their ideas in short pitches. There was plenty of opportunity to exchange ideas and network with the creative minds at the exhibition stands.
An expert jury assessed the business ideas and awarded prizes totalling €2,250 to the three winners and the team with the greatest commitment to sustainability.
The winning teams 2024/2025
1st place: Team Gallery Sort secured first place (€800) with their photo organiser app for quickly sorting the gallery.
2nd place: Team myCoach won second place (€600) and the sustainability prize (€300) with their platform for finding coaches for hobbies.
3rd place: Team GoGenius, with their concept for sustainable, healthy and caffeinated drinks, secured third place (€400).
Organisation und Projektmanagement:
Dr. Maria Diekmann
0851/509-2174
maria.diekmann@uni-passau.de
Coaching:
Helene Schneider
0851/509-1595
helene.schneider@uni-passau.de
Tamara Schneider
0851/396670
info@innkubator.de
Seminar paper and accreditation:
Fabian Hans
0851/509-2483
fabian.hans@uni-passau.de
Project Sponsor:
Bildungswerk der Bayerischen Wirtschaft
Regional organiser:
Universität Passau
Regional cooperation partner:
INN.KUBATOR Gründerzentrum
