The WFI delegation in New York.

Expanding the Network and the Horizon

WORLDFACTORY abroad

How do start-ups work on the other side of the world? What does the innovation landscape look like in Europe or North America? What spin-off trends and new ideas do they have? Different formats such as workshops and coaching sessions with experts from the network, as well as international networking trips or visits to start-up trade fairs abroad provide an opportunity for exchange and the expansion of global networks.

Two founders at an international start-up event

© Barak Shrama

Who is invited?

  • start-ups from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
  • researchers from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum that are interested in start-ups and applications
  • other opinion leaders and facilitators of WORLDFACTORY
A professor talking into a microphone in a room full of students.

© Barak Shrama

What are the objectives?

  • building relationships with international start-up experts and universities with a strong commitment to start-ups  
  • exchange of best practice models  
  • establishing collaborative projects such as joint events and teaching programmes
  • supporting start-ups from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in their internationalisation  
  • boosting the international visibility of Ruhr-Universität and the city of Bochum as a location for start-ups