More than 600 Kickstart teams were formed since the first StartUpLabs at universities of applied sciences began operations in March 2020. Many of these teams have now successfully developed their ideas into start-ups.

In August 2024, the federal and Laender governments have issued four new funding guidelines for their joint funding programme Research at UAS. These new funding instruments aim to strengthen research, profile development, promotion of young researchers, and internationalisation at UAS.

Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences opened its new StartUpLab RISE on 10 April 2024. The premises in Osnabrück harbour have been available to all university members since January 2024 and, with 650 square metres of space, are the largest StartUpLab of this funding measure.

The start-up Omegga, which was founded at HM Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences, has scored a major success: The young start-up team has raised 2.4 million euros from the EIC Accelerator of the European Innovation Council for a technology to determine the sex of chicken eggs.

The Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences (HSRW) has won a prestigious EU project: The university and its project partners will receive a total of almost 2.6 million euros to set up an international Doctoral Network (DN) on brain research. The BMBF supported the application process at the HSRW with its FH-Europa funding.