MCEI, Mannheim

The Mannheim Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MCEI) is the interdisciplinary center for entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Mannheim. With our three core pillars inspiration, entrepreneurial education, and startup support, we help create a culture of learning, knowledge exchange, innovation, and excitement for startup development. We offer entrepreneurial students and startups affiliated with MCEI excellent opportunities to network along with support to challenge, test, and develop their business models with a strong focus on a “can-do mentality” and scaling up. Our offerings rest on a “pay it forward" mentality of give-and-take: MCEI’s success builds on highly motivated students tackling challenges in new ventures and experienced entrepreneurs who serve as mentors, speakers, role models, and facilitators.

• help the Startup Ecosystem around the University of Mannheim/ in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region to develop a striving startup culture characterized by openness and mutual support (Startup Lounges & Founder Talks).
• support the qualification of our students by providing opportunities to learn via dedicated teaching activities (Teaching).
• enable students to experience the spirit of entrepreneurship in applied courses (Teaching, Inside the Venture Projects).
• empower students to advance their own startups in accelerator-style course formats (Teaching).
• provide a strong platform for young entrepreneurs, potential founders, students, and investors (Events & MCEI Network)
  Creating a culture of serendipity and a flourishing Startup Ecosystem in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region and beyond. The initiative was started in the context of the follow-up funding period 2012-2014 of the “ Grü nderverbund Entrepreneur Rhein-Neckar e. V.