Networking events

Let’s talk Tacheles! Frauen gründen.

(28.11.2024) ‘Let's Talk Tacheles’, the talk format jointly organised by the Alumni Office and the University's Entrepreneurship Center, focused this time on the topic of “Women starting up”. The start-up talk was part of the final event of EXIST-Women on 28 November 2024. In this project of the Entrepreneurship Center, committed women spent a year developing start-up ideas, making contacts and surpassing themselves. Now it was time to look back on this time and celebrate the successes together with them, but also to look to the future and take away new ideas from the inspiring round of talks. Click here for the retrospective.

Let’s talk Tacheles! Social Entrepreneurs

(20.06.2024) The focus of this year's ‘Founder Alumni Talk’ was on the topic of social entrepreneurship. On the 20 of June 2024, the three founders Yasin Demir, founder of the sustainability app ‘GreenDeal’, Moritz Everding, founder of ‘SOCHILI’ and Elise Spierling, chairwoman of the food-sharing café ‘Café Teilchen’, shared their inspiring motivations for setting up their start-ups. The 1.5-hour discourse, which was moderated by Vera Joosten, took place this time in the Food Court of the Mensa at Unteres Schloss. The main topic of the Let's Talk Tacheles series focussed on social entrepreneurship, i.e. start-ups that not only make a profit with their companies, but also have a positive impact on the environment and are committed to the common good. The three young founders are all pursuing the same goal with their start-ups: they want to make a difference to society and create positive added value! Click here for the retrospective.

Start-up & Family – Let’s Talk Tacheles

(28.11.2023) In this talk round from our series "Let’s Talk Tacheles”, the topic was how to combine the challenges of "family management" with founding your own company - how to find a balance between family obligations and the demands of a start-up that satisfies everyone. On November 28th, despite challenging traffic conditions due to the onset of winter, young founders and those interested in founding came together at the Leo (learning space) at the AR-Campus of the university to exchange experiences and get suggestions from talk guests for successful family and start-up management. Click here for the retrospective.

Tech Tacheles – Innovation from South Westphalia

(07.08.2023) Deep & Hard Tech Venturing was the focus of the Founder Alumni talk series “Let’s Talk Tacheles!” in July. This time, we welcomed three Founder Alumni who founded their ventures close to the University of Siegen. As part of the innovative industrial region of South Westphalia, they discussed the challenges of research-intensive start-ups with students and staff. Click here for the retrospective.

Tacheles International – More Than Just PepTalk

(16.05.2023) International perspectives for start-ups – that was the topic of the May edition of Let’s Talk Tacheles. Three Founder Alumni from very different business fields discussed with students and staff of the University of Siegen the opportunities and pitfalls of internationally operating companies, multinational teams, and sometimes challenging work cultures. Click here for the retrospective.

Let’s Talk Tacheles! Founder Alumni Tell All

(16.05.2022) On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the University of Siegen, on May 13, 2022, seven Founder Alumni gathered in the Friedrich-Schadeberg Lecture Hall at the Lower Castle Campus lecture hall center and engaged in intensive and controversial discussions with the audience about the challenges and opportunities of founding a company and shared their experiences from their own start-ups. Click here for the retrospective.