Your impact startup in 6 months!

HOLII is a six-months incubation program for regenerative and social innovation start-up ideas. The program supports several teams from the initial idea to the launch of their business. The program follows a scientifically based approach. Participants learn core competencies, increase their self-efficacy and pro-activity, and expand their network. In this way, HOLII reduces the uncertainty of starting a business and increases the commitment of the founders. Ideas are spun off more quickly and have a greater long-term impact.

Our Video inputs
Vision, Mission & Values
Team- & Self-management
Team roles & founding motivation
Problem & target group definition
Interviewing
Impact logics
Business modelling & validation
MVP
Funding
Pitching
Legal forms and taxes
Responsibility ownership
Hang with other founders: HOLII includes free regular co-working at Utopia Luneburg!

Source: https://sdgs.un.org/goals

Our understanding of impact

HOLII supports ideas with societal added value. In our understanding, an idea with added social value aims to contribute to the SDGs positively. This positive contribution (impact) should be the primary goal of the idea implementation.

We also believe that outer change requires inner change. We’re working with the Inner Development Goals (IDG) and other approaches. 

Combining proven start-up techniques, the IDG and SDG within a cyclical model or work we provide you with a solid framework to set up a holistic enterprise. By the end of the program, you’ll have developed an impact vision and impact logic, set impact goals, and learned how to measure and manage them. And you’ll have learned a great deal about yourself and your team.

Holistic also means that we look at the impact of the teams on all relevant levels along the value chain, from the legal form and the organizational design/management to the type of financing, the impact on society and the environment, to the interaction with employees, customers, and all other stakeholders.

Who do we support?

All interested start-ups from the Hamburg metropolitan region (incl. Lüneburg and Wismar) can apply for the incubation program. Primarily, associates of the affiliated organizations mentioned in the footer are admitted (students, doctoral candidates, employees, and alumna).

Requirements for an application:

  • a concrete founding idea;
  • the idea primarily pursues a social added value (cf. SDG’s);
  • a core team exists that is already actively working on the impact idea.