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Self-employment and setting up a business

Counselling services at HHU

For members of all faculties (except medicine)

The Center for Entrepreneurship at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (CEDUS) is HHU's central point of contact for all questions concerning self-employment and business start-ups. CEDUS is strongly networked in the Düsseldorf region and supports your start-up activities in a variety of ways. For questions on spin-offs and self-employment, please contact CEDUS directly.

For members of the Medical faculty

The innovative ideas and start-up projects from the University Medicine Düsseldorf are supported by Startup4MED in all phases.  Startup4MED also has a large network of regional and supra-regional partners and mentors from the start-up industry, who are involved in advising and supporting Berarf.

Those interested in founding a company at HHU are invited to take advantage of the numerous offers from CEDUS and Startup4MED free of charge. Contact the aforementioned institutions directly if you have any questions.


You may have already heard that there are numerous and, above all, successful start-up projects at HHU. Get to know previous start-up projects and spin-offs by members of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

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