Educating Digital Changemakers – Be Part of Something Unique!

The “Digital Tech Fellows Program” is FAU’s program open to outstanding digital talents from all FAU degree programs and faculties!
This program will give you all you need to follow your heart and passion for digitization, entrepreneurship and innovation.

• Become one of 25 handpicked talents from FAU
• Work in interdisciplinary & international teams
• Get in touch with international expert coaches, mentors and entrepreneurs
• Choose either your own start-up idea or be part of somebody else´s idea
• Develop creative solutions and your own pristine and validated business model
• Challenge yourself with our sports track & become part of the FAU Digital Tech Fellows community
• Get the chance to go abroad with an exclusive scholarship to one of the top universities worldwide with the FAU Global Program

Within one year, you will learn the newest state-of-the-art innovation methods, dive deep into technology and develop your digital start-up idea.

Apply here (till July 7th, 2019): http://bit.ly/dtf-apply

Detailed information on the schedule of the program can be found on their website: https://www.dta.fau.de/student-program/

For further questions, you can contact them via email (dta@fau.de).

The EIT HEALTH MedTech Bootcamp 2019 aims to efficiently equip interdisciplinary teams of young and ambitious engineers and health practitioners with an individually tailored entrepreneurial toolbox, a convincing business plan and a strong network of investors to catapult their promising healthcare transforming ideas from sketch to market.

The program is aimed at teams of MSc, MDs, PhD students, and/or postdocs – as well as young professionals – who have a business idea for a product still in research and development in the area of medical engineering. Specifically, it targets projects that have achieved technology readiness levels from around level 2 (technology concept formulated) to level 5 (technology validated in relevant environment).

Important dates

Application deadline: June 17, 2019
Skype Interviews: June 21-28, 2019

Start of program: September 2, 2019
End of program: November 7, 2019

Selection procedure

• Apply via the EIT Health application platform, hosted by Optimy. To apply, you will need to create an EIT Health Optimy account: eithealth.optimytool.com.
• A selection committee will choose the most promising start-ups to participate in the programmes. The committee will include diverse experts from the Bootcamp.
• After the first review cycle, about 20 teams receive an invitation to pitch their business idea via Skype.

Participating teams will receive up to 10.000€ per team to cover traveling, accommodation and other expenses.

Interested? You can find more information on https://www.medtech-bootcamp.de/.