StartUp Zone

StartUp Zone is a student incubator for students who want to build, test and develop their ideas.

We offer office spaces, workshops, laboratories and a Fablab where you can build and test your prototypes.

Moreover, we have some very dedicated teachers and StartUp coordinators who would be glad to help you find the right business partners, participate in competitions etc.

Coaching – from idea to reality

Do you need help to take your next step?

Idea development
Product development
Market testing
Marketing
Pitch coaching
Business development
Business partners
Participation in competitions
…and a great deal of moral support

Contact our StartUp coordinators and teachers here:

Helle Tegner hete@zealand.dk (Roskilde)
Trine Nikander trha@zealand.dk (Køge)
Poul Dylovpody@zealand.dk (Slagelse)
Allan Bjeld albj@zealand.dk (Nykøbing Falster)

Office spaces (Roskilde and Køge)

You can request an office space for your project or company in our office environments in StartUp Zone Roskilde and StartUp Zone Køge.

Contact our StartUp coordinators here:

Helle Tegner hete@zealand.dk (Roskilde)
Trine Nikander trha@zealand.dk (Køge)

Participate in competitions

By participating in competitions, you will learn to pitch your idea to a judging panel and get good advice from experienced and talented businesspeople on how to refine your project. Please contact one of our teachers or StartUp coordinators if you want to participate. In the StartUp Programme offered by the Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship, you can participate at several levels:

Idea competition in November (beginners)
Regional championships (trained)
Danish Championship in Entrepreneurship (experts)

Have you already started your own company? Then you can also apply for the Foundation’s Micro Grants of up to DKK 50,000.

Internship in your own company

You have a special opportunity to do an internship in your own company at Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship for a 10-week programme, which includes office spaces, network events and online courses in business development, management and marketing. Deadlines for application:

April and 15 October

Application requirements:

Motivated application
A description of your business idea and the associated business model (business model canvas)
A weekly plan describing your goals and work process
Name and LinkedIn profile of your business mentor.

Please contact your internship counsellor, teacher or StartUp coordinator for further information on application and internship.

Prototyping spaces

In our prototyping spaces you can build, print, cut, bake, fold, draw or test your own idea. So please feel free to use our laser cutters, 3D printers, robots, drones, green screen, VR glasses, laser printers and much more.

Fablab Danmark (Næstved) Helle Halskov +45 50762819 HHAU@zealand.dk

Dimselab (Roskilde) Michael Hammel Miha@zealand.dk

BIMlab (Næstved) Jonas Lynge jnie@zealand.dk

Makerlab (Køge) Henrik Mikkelsen HeMi@zealand.dk

Zealab Brian Schmidt Pedersen brip@zealand.dk

Fødevarepilot (Food Pilot) – (Roskilde) Kaj Reiter KaRe@zealand.dk

Events

In the StartUp Zone we participate in events all year round.

So please join our Facebook group to keep up to date with our events!

We also participate in recurrent national and local competitions and initiatives.

October

CoConference Innovation Challenge in Roskilde