Business Incubator: La Ruche à Projets

Overview

Inaugurated in 2013, the incubator La Ruche à Projets got a makeover in September 2019, making it worthy of a grande école and boosting entrepreneurial aspirations. 

The only grande école incubator in Alsace offering support for both for-profit and not-for-profit entrepreneurial projects, La Ruche à Projets encourages EM Strasbourg students and alumni and any asipiring entrepreneurs to make their business idea a reality through various training and support programs tailored to suit different types of business and stages of development. 

La Ruche à Projets enables project leaders to test their ideas through incubation and progress to the funding stage within a community of entrepreneurs and experts.

Advantages
 

• Be part of a community of more than 250 project leaders or entrepreneurs 
• Be in direct contact with more than 30 partners from the local and national entrepreneurial ecosystem 
• Meet successful entrepreneurs from La Ruche à Projets at workshops and conferences throughout the year  
• Benefit from support based on collaborative learning, promoting collective intelligence and the sharing of knowledge and experience 

Our Support Programs

• Pre-incubation program: Carry out a market study to validate your initial business idea in 2 months and 58 hours of training/support
• Incubation program: Take your validated idea and transform it into a clear business plan / start-up in 10 months and 117 hours of training/support
• Booster program: Accelerate business activity in 6 months and 41 hours of training/support

The Coaching Team 
 

A team of eight coaches, professionals from the entrepreneurial world, along with various guest speakers from the entrepreneurial ecosystem (start-up founders, mentors, etc.) are present to spur the development of your idea throughout the incubation process.  

• Sophie Courtin-Bernardo​
• Alban Petit
• Frédéric Cambecedes
• Virginie Athias
• Thomas Gresset
• Warren Michel
• Thibaut Bernardin
• Remy Perla

Admission 

• The pre-incubation program and incubation program are offered twice a year: in October and February of each academic year
• Enrollment in the Booster Program takes place throughout the year
• Calls for projects are launched in September and January

Application Requirements 

• Have an entrepreneurial project, whether it be at the idea, business plan, or marketing stage 
• Be alone or in a team
• Have at least one EM Strasbourg student or alumni in the team
• Apply here for the pre-incubation program and the incubation program

   

   

  Our Partners from the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

   

  We work closely with the following partners from the entrepreneurial ecosystem to help you develop your project: