Business Incubator: La Ruche à Projets

Six months of support for EM Strasbourg students and alumni!

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.

Its raison d'être is to foster and support the entrepreneurial ambitions of EM Strasbourg students and graduates by playing an active role in the entrepreneurial ecosystem!

Advantages

Be part of a community of more than 200 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

The Incubation Program in Detail

On an à-la-carte basis, the incubation program allows you to take advantage of

three entrepreneurial course sets,
over a period of six months,
in the form of group coaching sessions (80% of support) and individual sessions (20% of support),
for an average of three hours of sessions per week (almost exclusively in the evening).

Being part of the incubation program means being part of La Ruche à Projets's community of entrepreneurs, where peers interact, exchange, and share best practices!

The Coaching Team

A team of eight coaches, professionals from the entrepreneurial world, along with various guest speakers from the entrepreneurial ecosystem (start-up founders, mentors, etc.) are present to spur you on in the development of your project throughout the incubation program.

Admission

Two incubation periods per academic year: in October and February
Call for projects in September and January
Apply from January 1 to 30, 2023, to the call for projects for February 2023

Application Requirements

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