Team Spaces and Co-Working
Rooms, technical equipment and networks for budding start-ups
Joining forces, meeting, brainstorming, networking, presenting and developing ideas together with others: WORLDFACTORY start-up teams can do all of this in our team and co-working spaces in Uni-Forum Ost (UFO for short), at O-Werk in Mark 51°7 and in the city centre of Bochum.
Team spaces and co-working in UFO
Are you a student, researcher or lecturer at RUB looking for rooms for team meetings, seminars and conferences? UFO offers you the opportunity to use its co-working space or one of the team spaces for these purposes. The co-working space can accommodate up to 76 people. The three team spaces are available for groups of up to eight, ten or twelve people. There are lockers for work materials and a kitchenette.
Office space at O-Werk
Are you part of a WORLDFACTORY start-up team and looking for free office space? On 1 April 2022, four offices will become available free of charge at O-Werk in Mark 51°7. They offer space for three to four people each on the first floor of the former Opel administration building and are located in the immediate vicinity of our RUB Makerspace (ground floor O-Werk). They are fully equipped with chairs, desks, shelves and two whiteboards. You can also use the open kitchenette and the baby changing facilities on the ground floor. For client meetings or brainstorming sessions, you will have access to the CEIT conference room, with whom you share the floor. In addition, you will have your own mailbox at O-Werk, so that you can register a business address there even after you have set up your company. The office space is available for six months at a time. Once the term is up, you can apply for an extension.
This is how you can secure one of the sought-after spaces
Download our application for offices here, fill it out and send it together with your pitch deck to startup-office@rub.de. Please note: Office space is limited. This is why we will review your application carefully. We give preference to students, members and teams of Ruhr-Universität Bochum with a gender quota. You can apply even if you’d founded a company in the past – the free use of the office space will then be regulated via De-minimis for up to three years after the start-up. There are no specific submission deadlines, i.e. you can submit your application at any time. Would you like to submit your application, visit the premises or do you have any questions? Please contact Melusine Reimers at WORLDFACTORY.
Offices in the city centre of Bochum
Are you part of a WORLDFACTORY start-up team of at least three members and looking for office space? Feel free to submit an application for free office space in the Bochum Funkhaus to us and the Bochum Economic Development Agency. The fully equipped offices are located in the city centre and offer space for up to four people. Funkhaus also has meeting rooms and spacious communal facilities, including a roof terrace and a spacious cooking and dining area. This is where the start-ups and digital companies in the building meet to network and exchange ideas. The teams of the incubator WERK X from Bochum Wirtschaftsentwicklung are some of your helpful neighbours. You can use the meeting rooms for team meetings and brainstorming sessions or to invite and welcome important partners.
This is how you can secure one of the office spaces in the Funkhaus
There are no specific submission deadlines, i.e. you can submit your application at any time. Please note: The office space available in the Funkhaus for WORLDFACTORY teams is limited. This is why we will review your application carefully. We favour start-ups that want to use the Funkhaus as their primary workspace. We also give preference to teams that are not provided with a room by their departments or have already started up. Would you like to submit your application, visit the premises or do you have any questions? Please contact Melusine Reimers at WORLDFACTORY or Fabian Hoff at Bochum Wirtschaftsentwicklung.
The application form for the offices is available here.
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