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Center for Entrepreneurship Düsseldorf
CEDUS - Your startup consultancy at HHU
Welcome to CEDUS
The Center for Entrepreneurship Düsseldorf (CEDUS) at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf is your contact for all questions related to self-employment and starting a business. We support students, graduates and researchers in developing business ideas and, in addition to our free startup advice, also offer numerous workshops and events on entrepreneurial skills and sustainable entrepreneurship. Our team of advisors helps you with the acquisition and application of funding and connects you with experts from different business sectors. Visit us to learn more and start your entrepreneurial journey!
We help you to start up!
Our tasks
- Advising students, graduates and researchers on the way to founding their own company
- Imparting knowledge relevant to startups for a successful start into professional self-employment and business startups
- Advice and support in acquiring and applying for funding
- Procuration of a suitable support for the startup project from the CEDUS expert network
Our consultations, mediations and other services are free of charge for you.
We offer
Our upcoming events
University teams awarded for innovative startup ideas
The HHU Ideas Competition 2024 is over and great weeks are behind us - with exciting ideas and committed teams!
Many thanks to everyone who participated and submitted their idea sketches! Many thanks to the jury, who read all the ideas and evaluated them to the best of their knowledge and belief, and many thanks to our presenters Isabell Nethke and Julia Riensche, who made the award ceremony a very special highlight!
News
Ask the tax consultant
90-minute open consultation hour! Every second Tuesday of the month, tax consultant Maximilian Hülswitt from Steuern: hülswitt. is available to answer your questions.
Simply register for the next appointment and dial into the online meeting punctually at 2 p.m.
More information about the CEDUS startup service here!
New support for female founders
HHU has received approval for EXIST-Women from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. Thanks to this funding, the first batch of the Female Entrepreneurship Incubator (FEIN) startet at CEDUS in January 2024, which is explicitly aimed at women at HHU who are interested in founding a company and supports them in their startup projects. Batch 2 is expected to start in 2025.
Read all information here: EXIST-Women