Awards and rankings
Start-up radar
The Stifterverband's start-up radar analyses and compares the efforts made by universities to strengthen their start-up culture. Various dimensions are analysed: start-up sensitisation, qualification and support and institutional anchoring. The start-up activities, i.e. the output of start-up promotion efforts, networking, monitoring and evaluation activities in this area are also analysed.
European University Viadrina among the TOP 10 in the Start-up Radar 2025
In the current start-up radar of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Viadrina achieves an outstanding 6th place in the group of 63 small universities!*
With an overall score of 53.5 points, we are well above the average of 40.8 points and are particularly convincing in the following areas:
- Foundation support (9.2)
- Start-up anchoring & qualification (9.8 each)
- Sensitisation & networking (9.5 & 8.6)
- Evaluation & monitoring (10.0)
A big round of applause goes to all the founders and our partners who made this success possible and helped shape it! Together for even more entrepreneurial spirit in East Brandenburg.
*Only universities with fewer than 5,000 students who approved the questionnaire were included in this ranking. The scores achieved are not comparable with those of the other size class rankings, as the basis for comparison at indicator level differs in each case.
Find out more about the ranking results
The European University Viadrina was ranked 4th among the 77 medium-sized universities in Germany in the start-up radar of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.
The European University Viadrina was ranked 2nd among the 71 medium-sized universities in Germany in the start-up radar of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.
The European University Viadrina was ranked 2nd among the 54 medium-sized universities in Germany in the start-up radar of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.
Think tank
There are many bright minds at the universities in Berlin and Brandenburg who have innovative and sustainable business models as solutions for the challenges of today and tomorrow. The university start-up centres support this entrepreneurial courage with a wide range of support and advice services.
This is why the Business Plan Competition Berlin-Brandenburg (BPW) honours the most entrepreneurial universities in Berlin and Brandenburg every year as part of the competition. The Ideenschmiede prize is awarded to the university in Berlin and Brandenburg that has produced the strongest start-ups in the competition in terms of quantity and quality.
For the fifth time now, the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) has been named the most active university in Brandenburg in terms of start-ups. The "Brandenburg Think Tank" plaque was awarded to the Viadrina at the closing event of the Berlin-Brandenburg Business Plan Competition (BPW) in Berlin.
The jury of the Berlin-Brandenburg Business Plan Competition positively assessed both the academic business concepts of Prof. Dr Jochen Koch's Chair of Corporate Management and Organisation and the projects currently being implemented by the teams supervised by the Viadrina Founders Center.
To the Berlin Brandenburg Business Plan CompetitionEuropean University celebrates successful start-ups
36 start-up projects - including an intelligent chair support that uses sensor technology to detect poor posture when sitting. For this, the European University Viadrina was also honoured in 2018 as the most active start-up university in the state of Brandenburg.
In the presence of Lord Mayor René Wilke and representatives of the regional economy, Prof Dr Stephan Kudert, President of the European University, unveils the fourth winner plaque of the "Ideenschmiede" university ranking of the Berlin-Brandenburg Business Plan Competition in the Viadrina Main Building. Ansgar Oberholz, founder and managing director of the first coworking space in Berlin "St. Oberholz", will give the keynote speech. In Frankfurt (Oder), Ansgar Oberholz initiated the coworking space "Blok-O" together with Sparda-Bank Berlin.To the Berlin Brandenburg Business Plan Competition
The FU Berlin and the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) received the BPW University Award "Ideenschmiede" as the most successful universities in Berlin and Brandenburg in the BPW. Over 50 per cent of the start-up ideas in the 2017 competition came from the university environment.
Around 1,600 participants with almost 400 business conceptsThe final award ceremony was the highlight of the three-phase initiative, which supports start-ups free of charge with seminars and a large network of experts in the development of a viable business concept. 1,597 interested parties took advantage of the extensive programme offered by BPW 2017. 389 business concepts were submitted to the competition in total.
To the Berlin Brandenburg Business Plan CompetitionIn 2015, the European University took first place in the university ranking "Ideenschmiede" for the second time. Prof. Dr Achim Koberstein and employees of the Start-up Service, the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Research and the Center for Knowledge and Technology Transfer at Viadrina accepted the award in Berlin.
The criteria for the award are the number of submissions to the Berlin-Brandenburg Business Plan Competition (BPW 2015) and the ranking of the participants from a university. Viadrina students took part in the business plan competition with 36 business ideas, including a learning aid app and a catering concept focused on sustainability and healthy eating.
European University Viadrina takes first place in the Berlin-Brandenburg Business Plan Competition 2014
The European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) has been awarded first prize in the "Ideenschmiede" university prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Business Plan Competition (BPW) 2014. This makes it the most successful university for start-ups in the whole of Brandenburg, ahead of Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development and Wildau University of Applied Sciences in joint second place.
The business plans of students who took part in the business plan competition in the seminar "Introduction to Business Creation / Business Plan" under the direction of Prof Dr Liv K. Jacobsen contributed to this result. Viadrina took part in the competition with a total of 58 participants and 24 business ideas. The business plans included ideas for business start-ups for the Berlin-Brandenburg region, Germany and Europe: from an app that finds inexpensive leisure activities in the neighbourhood to an online placement platform for craftsmen.
The Berlin-Brandenburg Business Plan Competition is the largest regional business plan competition in Germany.
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