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Once again, the CAMPUSiDEEN competition has honored the best ideas from Bremen's higher education landscape. The jury selected one winner in each of the categories Business Concepts, Impact Award, and Audience Award, and two winners in the Business Ideas category.
The start-up ideas and concepts of the CAMPUSiDEEN competition winners were innovative and economically sound. They were recognized as the best out of over 100 submissions. “We are delighted with the numerous and diverse entries from all of Bremen’s universities. This impressively demonstrates the entrepreneurial potential that exists across Bremen’s higher education landscape and the great interest in putting innovative ideas into practice,” says Meike Goos, managing director of BRIDGE.
Business Concepts Category
The prize in the Business Concepts category, worth 7,500 euros, was won by the M-Shunt team consisting of Sven Clausner, Hauke Lutzen, and Vladimir Polezhaev (University of Bremen). The M-Shunt team is raising power engineering to the level of modern power electronics with a patented sensor that records extremely fast switching processes precisely and without interference – for use in networks, converters, and test benches for quality assurance, predictive maintenance, and early fault detection in the production process.
Business Ideas Category
In the Business Ideas category, first place and a prize worth 2,500 euros went to Marta Backowska, Maik Bleckmann, and Oskar Glenz (Bremen City University of Applied Sciences). The Fiber Motion fiber winding machine enables cost-effective and flexible production of complex carbon fiber components with only two axes. It is aimed at development departments and research institutes and saves weight, costs, and development time through the use of 3D-printed molds.
Second place, worth 1,500 euros, was awarded to Thomas Schweizer (University of Bremen) for ApisKeep, which is a newly developed device for controlling Varroa mites that enables precise, automated formic acid treatment of bee colonies. Thanks to real-time sensor technology and controlled evaporation, it is significantly more effective, safer, and more user-friendly than conventional methods.
Impact Award Category
The prize in the Impact Award category, worth 2,500 euros, went to the Neurodiversity AI team – Timm Bölke and Bianca Holtschke (University of the Arts Bremen). Neurodiversity AI is an individualized AI assistant for neurodivergent adults – developed by individuals on the autism spectrum. As a “translator,” Neurodiversity AI makes subtext visible, prepares meetings, and structures to-do lists into manageable steps. This creates space for authentic participation in work, study, and everyday life.
Audience Award
The Audience Award, worth 500 euros, was won by the Electra Sweep team. Arathy Rajendran Nair and Divin Raj Sundararaj (Bremen University of Applied Sciences) use innovative electrostatic technology to actively remove small, hard-to-detect space debris and protect satellites from collisions in a cost-effective and sustainable manner.
The award ceremony took place on November 12 in the Banking Hall at Domshof. Prizes totaling 14,500 euros were awarded. The first two places in the Business Ideas category and first place in the Business Concepts, Impact Award, and Audience Award categories were honored. The Impact Award was presented for the first time in 2025 to a start-up project that has developed innovative solutions to social challenges.
About CAMPUSiDEEN 2025
CAMPUSiDEEN is one of the most successful idea competitions at German universities and has received over 900 start-up ideas in 22 years. In 2025, CAMPUSiDEEN is supported by the following partners: AOK Bremen/Bremerhaven, Bremer Aufbau-Bank, Bremen Chamber of Commerce – IHK for Bremen and Bremerhaven, Nachtwey IP, Sparkasse Bremen, and Stiftung Bremer Wertpapierbörse.
About BRIDGE
BRIDGE is the central point of contact for students, alumni, and members of Bremen's universities when it comes to starting a business. The BRIDGE university network is sponsored by the University of Bremen (office in the UniTransfer Unit), Bremen City University of Applied Sciences, Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences, the University of the Arts Bremen, Constructor University, and Bremer Aufbau-Bank GmbH. BRIDGE has set itself the goal of improving the start-up climate at all participating universities and supporting promising ideas with business potential at an early stage.
https://bridge-online.de/en/campusideen
https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/cooperation/business-start-up
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