Business Incubator: La Ruche à Projets

Overview

Inaugurated in 2013, the incubator La Ruche à Projets got a makeover in September 2019, making it worthy of a grande école and boosting entrepreneurial aspirations. 

The only grande école incubator in Alsace offering support for both for-profit and not-for-profit entrepreneurial projects, La Ruche à Projets encourages EM Strasbourg students and alumni and any asipiring entrepreneurs to make their business idea a reality through various training and support programs tailored to suit different types of business and stages of development. 

La Ruche à Projets enables project leaders to test their ideas through incubation and progress to the funding stage within a community of entrepreneurs and experts.

Advantages
 

• Be part of a community of more than 320 project leaders or entrepreneurs 
• Be in direct contact with more than 30 partners from the local and national entrepreneurial ecosystem 
• Meet successful entrepreneurs from La Ruche à Projets at workshops and conferences throughout the year  
• Benefit from support based on collaborative learning, promoting collective intelligence and the sharing of knowledge and experience 

Our Support Programs

• Pre-incubation program: Carry out a market study to validate your initial business idea in 2 months and 58 hours of training/support
• Incubation program: Take your validated idea and transform it into a clear business plan / start-up in 6 months and 117 hours of training/support
• Booster program: Accelerate business activity in 12 hours of training/support

The Coaching Team 
 

A team of 7 coaches, professionals from the entrepreneurial world, along with various guest speakers from the entrepreneurial ecosystem (start-up founders, mentors, etc.) are present to spur the development of your idea throughout the incubation process.  

• Sophie Courtin-Bernardo​
• Frédéric Cambecedes
• Virginie Athias
• Thibaut Bernardin
• Remy Perla
• Mélanie Winter
• Emmanuel Laubriat

Admission 

• Pre-Incubation Program: Project call in September for a start in early October.

• Incubation Program: Project call in December for a start in late January.

• Applications for the Booster Program are open throughout the year.

Application Requirements 

• Have an entrepreneurial project, whether it be at the idea, business plan, or marketing stage 
• Be alone or in a team
• Have at least one EM Strasbourg student or alumni in the team

Apply here

Our Partners from the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

We work closely with the following partners from the entrepreneurial ecosystem to help you develop your project: