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Ambassadors Network

  • Organizer: KIT FORGE
  • Audience: Professors, Group Leaders
  • Cost: Free of charge

Become an KIT FORGE Ambassador

Great startups start with great research – and people who encourage entrepreneurial thinking. At KIT, groundbreaking research has the potential to become tomorrow's successful startups. But turning scientific discoveries into real-world impact requires more than excellent technology. It takes an environment that encourages entrepreneurial ambition, opens doors, and supports researchers in exploring new opportunities. 

The KIT FORGE Ambassador Network brings together professors, institute directors, research group leaders, and academic supervisors who want to strengthen entrepreneurship within KIT's research community. As a KIT FORGE Ambassador, you help inspire researchers, doctoral candidates, and students to explore entrepreneurship as a pathway to bringing their ideas and technologies into practice.

Your role as a KIT FORGE Ambassador

  • Inspire entrepreneurship: Encourage entrepreneurial thinking within your institute, raise awareness of startup opportunities, and help researchers take their first steps towards founding a company.

  • Connect people and opportunities: Act as a bridge between your research community and KIT FORGE, connecting promising ideas and entrepreneurial talent with the right support, networks, and resources.

  • Engage on your terms: Contribute in ways that fit your interests and availability – whether by sharing opportunities, participating in events, connecting researchers, or supporting entrepreneurial initiatives.

  • Benefit from a strong network: Connect with like-minded academic leaders, gain access to KIT FORGE's startup and innovation ecosystem, and increase the visibility of entrepreneurial activities within your institute

Help shape the future of entrepreneurship at KIT

You don't have to be a founder to make entrepreneurship happen. Become part of the KIT FORGE Ambassador Network and help turn research excellence into entrepreneurial impact.

“A spin-off creates an additional incentive to our research and development work: in addition to scientific curiosity and enthusiasm for technology, the benefits for society also come into play in this way.”
Prof. Dr. Manfred Kohl
Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT), KIT
Our experts support you

Have questions or interested? Get in touch!

Thomas Neumann

Your contact person

Thomas Neumann
Spokesman of KIT FORGE, Head of Entrepreneurship Services & Sharholdings (IRM-ESS)
t.neumann@kit.edu LinkedIn

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Whether you have a vague idea, a breakthrough research paper, or an active startup – let’s talk.

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I agree that my personal data submitted via the contact form may be processed by KIT FORGE for the following purposes: contacting me and providing startup consulting services. The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based solely on my consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). The information I provide in the contact form, including my contact details, will be stored by KIT FORGE for the purpose of processing my inquiry. KIT FORGE will not share this data with third parties without my consent. The data I enter in the contact form will remain with KIT FORGE until I request its deletion, withdraw my consent to its storage (which I may do informally by email to info@kit-forge.de), or the purpose for which the data was collected no longer applies (e.g. once my inquiry has been fully processed). Mandatory statutory provisions, in particular statutory retention periods, remain unaffected. For information on data protection relating to startup consulting, including applications for public funding programmes for spin-offs, please refer to https://www.kit-forge.de/en/privacy/.

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For consulting inquiries, please use our separate consulting inquiry form.

* Required field

I agree that my personal data submitted via the contact form may be processed by KIT FORGE for the following purposes: contacting me and providing startup consulting services. The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based solely on my consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). The information I provide in the contact form, including my contact details, will be stored by KIT FORGE for the purpose of processing my inquiry. KIT FORGE will not share this data with third parties without my consent. The data I enter in the contact form will remain with KIT FORGE until I request its deletion, withdraw my consent to its storage (which I may do informally by email to info@kit-forge.de), or the purpose for which the data was collected no longer applies (e.g. once my inquiry has been fully processed). Mandatory statutory provisions, in particular statutory retention periods, remain unaffected. For information on data protection relating to startup consulting, including applications for public funding programmes for spin-offs, please refer to https://www.kit-forge.de/en/privacy/.